#young scientists

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black void club: we have uno thursdays

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Heman Bekele Is TIME’s 2024 Kid of the Year: TIME's Kid of the Year List

Heman Bekele Is TIME’s 2024 Kid of the Year: See who else made the list

10th-grader at Woodson High School in Fairfax County, Virginia, as the winner of its Young Scientist Challenge. His prize: $25,000. His accomplishment: inventing a soap that could one day treat and even prevent multiple forms of skin cancer. It may take years before such a product comes to market, but this summer Heman is already spending part of every weekday working in a lab at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, hoping to bring his dream to fruition.

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Indian Schoolgirls Turned These Aquatic Weeds Into Sustainable Period Pads

They’re an affordable and eco-friendly alternative to plastic products.

In October 2018, 10th-grade girls from Ahammed Kurikkal Memorial Higher Secondary School entered the National Children Science Competition. The competition asked participants to consider science, technology, and innovation for a “clean, green, and healthy nation.” Under the mentorship of biology teacher Sarath KS, the students created a sanitary pad that can absorb water 12 times more than a regular sanitary pad. 

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Teen auto-safety researcher nabs $25,000 science fair prize

Alaina Gassler took home the $25,000 top prize at the Broadcom MASTERS teen science competition. Her qualifying project could boost vehicle safety by eliminating blind spots for car drivers.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — On a weekend where the nation’s capital was focused on hosting its first World Series games in seven decades, 30 young researchers from across the nation were on deck for a hard-hitting competition of their own. In a sense, all were winners already. Each had, after all, beat out hundreds of others for the chance to face off in team play. But only one contestant — Alaina Gassler, 14 — would take home the top prize: an educational award worth $25,000. Her award was one of more than a dozen announced at an evening gala on October 29.

Alaina was one of 30 finalists from 13 states who competed in the ninth annual Broadcom MASTERS competition. MASTERS stands for Math, Applied Science, Technology and Engineering for Rising Stars. The program was created by Society for Science & the Public, which publishes Science News for Students.

Alaina and the other finalists had to be in sixth, seventh or eighth grade when they competed in a local or regional science fair. To qualify for Broadcom MASTERS, their research had to have been judged within the top 10 percent of all projects at that fair. Those projects all fell within the fields of science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM). Alaina had developed a novel system aimed at boosting auto safety.

But those qualifying projects would only account for 20 percent or so of a finalist’s score at this week’s event. The rest of the score would come from how an individual was judged while working within one of the six teams to solve a spectrum of assigned, on-the-spot science and engineering challenges.

“Congratulations to Alaina, whose project has the potential to decrease the number of automobile accidents by reducing blind spots,” says Maya Ajmera. She is president of Society for Science and the Public.

Alaina goes to school in West Grove, Penn. “I didn’t think I’d win an award this big,” she enthused at the gala. “I was happy just getting the small medal that everyone got at the beginning of the night!” she added.

The Samueli Foundation provided Alaina’s winnings. This non-profit organization was created by Broadcom founder Henry Samueli and is based in Newport Beach, Calif.

Fifteen of the finalists took home major awards or the funds to attend a science camp of their choice. For the first time, this year, 60 percent of the finalists were female.

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Bird Profiles No.2: Zebra Finch

Latin Name: Taienopygia Guttata

Diet: Insectivore, Seedivore

Length: 10cm

Weight: 12g

The Zebra Finch is used worldwide by researchers to study reproduction, bird physiology, birdsong and behaviour. Unique among birds, it drinks not by scooping up water with its bill, but by sucking. Its bill is adapted for eating seeds, but it also eats insects, mainly termites. A very vocal bird, the Zebra Finch is also sociable and breeds after the rains, it nests in shrubs and branches, rabbit burrows, termite mounds and holes in trees and rocks.

Top Image: animalhumanesociety.org

Bottom Image: flickr.com

Hope you enjoyed the profile!

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do you guys ever think about how much climate change is going to influence the next generation of scientists? to at least some degree, the research of every single biologist, physicist, chemist, geologist, etc. will focus on saving the earth. and of course my future in science is going to revolve around conservation and I have absolutely no regrets about that, but what about all the incredible things we could be creating and discovering if we weren’t thrust into this dire obligation to prevent the death of the planet? what have we already lost?

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ABOUT ICYMARE - ICYMARE

ICYMARE is the “International Conference for Young MArine Researchers” which is organized voluntarily by and for young marine researchers

The ICYMARE is a conference for young Marine Researchers to connect and share their knowledge.

Students from Bachelors/Masters/... are welcome to present their early research and ideas for the future.

The call for abstracts is open now!

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Science Experiments to Do at Home

If you’ve got young mad scientists on hand during the winter holidays, bored with a break from school, perhaps they’d be interested in trying out some experiments that can be done easily at home. Many of these experiments use common household items, too, so they won’t require a lot of preparation or expenditures.

Many of these experiments are things we remember doing at home as kids, and you may find some familiar ones on the list as well! You can find the list of 50 experiments at “Mommy Poppins.”

Please note, we’re not affiliated with this website. This is another of our awesome finds!

Photo note:  Laila Jeanjulien, 9, looks over a vial used in an activity sponsored by the Dept. of Defense during the USA Science & Engineering Festival in Washington, D.C. April 6, 2018. (DoD photo by EJ Hersom)