She's already won three international awards for her breakthrough idea," Corden said on his show recently. The Late Late Show also tweeted about Maryam. She calls her product "YAM 2.0". Yam 2.0 won Maryam not just the gold medal but also the Canadian Special Award, as well as the coveted Best Young Inventor Award at iCAN 2021. She then found an article that cited the benefits of the shells for llivestock, in particular a compound called chitin, and went about creating Yam 2.0.