I Think You're Copper and Tellurium

Candi's group fails their science project. They had 5 months to prepare a model, presentation, and speech. Yet on the day of the science fair their work was stolen! No where to be seen the team is infuriated not only that but Candi's perfect record was about to drop and she was hysterical. the presentation and speech boost them up to a C+ but Candi felt terrible yet still maintain an A-. Her year ended on that note and over the summer she studied harder than ever before, before stumbling upon something hidden in the libraries USB box. She takes it and heads home to her computer she can't decipher this code so calling her old team and they figure it out and build a machine
'An object transporter' it was called and it could transport objects from one beam to another. They are amazed by their discovery and want to submit research to their #1 University for a scholarship.

But things go wrong as an accidental splash of water causes the main monitor to freak out and the machine malfunctions, exploding.

What's left of the rubble and work is a. . . boy?

what will Candi do?