THE glass box took Ario Guritno and Reza Aulia as far as Baku, Azerbaijan, a country between Eastern Europe and West Asia. They were not on holiday but to compete in last April’s International Environment Project Olympics where they had to explain how the glass box, a greenhouse miniature, worked. “On the first day the jury came and asked how it worked,” said Ario, 16.

Ario fluently told the jury how the glass box invention worked. The mi