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Posted on 10/20/2023 5:27:52 AM PDT by Red Badger
FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. (Gray News) – A 14-year-old from Virginia was crowned America’s Top Young Scientist for inventing a soap that treats skin cancer.
According to a news release, Heman Bekele, a ninth grader at W.T. Woodson High School in Annandale, won the 2023 3M Young Scientist Challenge last week.
Heman developed Melanoma Treating Soap, a compound-based bar of soap designed to treat skin cancer. Over the next five years, he hopes to refine his innovation and create a nonprofit organization that will distribute this low-cost solution to communities in need.
The final product came out to a shockingly cheap $0.50 per bar of soap – a far more affordable and accessible treatment than traditional skin cancer treatments.
You can watch a short clip of Heman’s presentation here.
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Finalists are paired with a 3M scientist who mentors them over the summer to take their idea from concept to prototype. Heman is seen here with his mentor, Deborah Isabelle, who works on developing new products in 3M’s Automotive Aftermarket Division.(ACK | 3M/PR Newswire) Heman said in 15 years, he hopes to be a successful electrical engineer who has contributed significantly to the industry, with a fulfilling personal life with a loving family and a strong network of friends.
Heman spent the last four months competing against nine other finalists, winning the competition at 3M global headquarters in St. Paul, Minn., on Oct. 9 and 10.
As the grand prize winner, he will receive a $25,000 cash prize and the title of America’s Top Young Scientist.
This year’s second-place winner is Shripriya Kalbhavi, a ninth grader at Lynbrook High School in San Jose, Calif., who developed EasyBZ, a cost-effective microneedle patch that allows for self-automated drug delivery without pills or needles.
This year’s third-place winner is Sarah Wang, a seventh grader at The Pike School in Andover, Mass. She developed the Spring Epilepsy Detection Glove, a glove that can detect tonic-clonic and myoclonic epileptic seizures with common hand movements and tracks seizure statistics through a smartphone application.
The second and third-place winners will each receive $2,000.
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The top 10 finalists of this year's America’s Top Young Scientist competition spent the last four months competing against other.(ACK | 3M/PR Newswire) Finalists are paired with a 3M scientist who mentors them over the summer to take their idea from concept to prototype. During the competition, students are evaluated on their ingenuity and innovative thinking, application of STEM principles, demonstration of passion and research, presentation skills and ability to inspire others.
This was the 16th year of the competition. 3M said previous winners have gone on to give TED Talks, file patents, found nonprofits, make the Forbes 30 Under 30 list, and exhibit at the White House Science Fair.
Winners have also been featured in The New York Times Magazine, Forbes, and Business Insider, and have appeared on TV shows like “Good Morning America” and “The Ellen DeGeneres Show.”
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A fine example of just how gullible the public truly are
“The message is loud and clear. It’s not your skin color, it’s the content of your character.”
Except the judges are “diverse” (per the website), you submit a video, and white males are immediately excluded from the competition.
Yeah...it’s a sad fact - and they’ve become monsters.
For the same reason in top American universities nearly a third of the students are Asian Americans (5% of the population).
“Over the next five years,”
Not a White boy in the group. The feminists have won their “War on Boys”. A book written decades ago that I would recommend highly. It laid out in detail the plan for destroying White boys in this country. They can raise the victory flag. Mission accomplished.
What’s that white girl doing there?
Place holding......................
Notice what all those kids have in common?
Yutes!.........................
A work ethic and intelligence?
And a culture that values education.
Because they believe "History", is not important...
and they are "Doomed to repeat it"...
Our German scientists were better than their German scientists...
Then, according to this picture, character is missing from those young “white” kids who long to be scientists, and you’re hoping they will be overcome in their yearned-for occupations?
This forum is ridiculous sometimes...
To the freepers expressing doubt:
Maybe your kids never participated in these kinds of competitions? Because you don’t seem to know how they work.
These are just kids. Their ideas are scored on the research they did, their presentations, etc.
There are many different science competitions for kids. Nothing is stopping your kids from joining in the fun.
Most Americans aren’t interested in science competitions. They just want their kids to play sports.
So, stop whining when the “nerds” win these science competitions.
Jocks, broke at 40.
Nerds, billionaires at 40............
While the risk of skin cancer in fair skinned people is much higher, dark-skinned people can also get skin cancer and it can be more difficult to detect.
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/skin-cancer-by-race#reasons-for-differences
FWIW, Black people can also get sun burned.
They may exclude White boys but they haven’t eliminated them…
You don’t say. LOL!
Most Americans aren’t interested in science competitions. They just want their kids to play sports.
Agreed. But there are some exceptions.
Three of my great nieces participated in their middle school and then their regional and statewide science fairs, all three winning prizes with two also playing on their lacrosse team and in band and orchestra and the other in dance and theater.
Their parents, my niece the parent of two and my nephew the parent of one, are not helicopter parents nor do they push them, but encourage and support their interests in science and engineering and their artistic talents and all their nerdiness.
Another of my great nieces who is not interested in music or athletics but is an amazing artist for her age, not long ago told her grandmother, my SIL that she wanted to become an engineer or an architect or an HVAC mechanic like her father. My SIL told her that those were “boy” jobs and not something a “girl” should do or aspire to.
My great niece was very upset by this. I told her that her grandmother was raised in a different age when those attitudes were accepted. I also told her that if she wanted to become an engineer, an architect or a mechanic, that she absolutely could if she put in the time and effort and focused her education on that.
I told her to love her Nana with all her heart but not to take career advice from her. 😊
I’m impressed.
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