Eliott Sarrey, Lorrain 14 and finalists of the Google Science Fair 2015 will go Bot2karot defend his project to the California office of the American firm in September. – Eliott Sarrey / YouTube

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Eliott Sarrey still do not return. At 14, he will present his technology project at Google headquarters in California next month, just like the other 19 finalists of the Google Science Fair, an international competition organized by the Web giant open to young inventors.

Designer of Bot2karot, a robot capable of maintaining a vegetable garden, this schoolboy Maron, in Meurthe-et-Moselle, learned this Tuesday, his selection in the final list drawn by the Mountain View company.

The young man will now have to defend the strengths of his robot in the heart of Silicon Valley (California, USA) to hope to win the $ 50,000 scholarship promised the winner of the competition.

In a video posted on the Google Science Fair site, Eliott details the characteristics of Bot2karot, a machine capable of caring for a vegetable garden in the absence of its owners, who can send various instructions via a downloadable application on their smartphone.