Jeffery Chen, 17, just won $400,000 in educational prizes for sharing his love of science with the world. Now, with the help of 黑料吃瓜资源鈥檚 DNA Learning Center, he鈥檚 bringing that love back to his high school, with the gift of a state-of-the-art lab space.
Chen, of Burlingame, Calif., was the winner of the fifth annual Breakthrough Junior Challenge, a global competition where high schoolers are tasked with that explains any topic in science or math that has captured their interest. For his , Chen chose to introduce viewers to the neutrino particle and its implications for astronomy.
鈥淪cience constantly evolves and gives us new perspectives on why the universe behaves the way it does, and we鈥檙e fortunate to live in a time where the mysteries of the cosmos are being unlocked before our very eyes,鈥 Chen said during the awards ceremony at NASA鈥檚 Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif.
As this year鈥檚 winner, Chen, a senior at Burlingame High School, earned a $250,000 college scholarship and a $50,000 gift for his mentor and science teacher, Heather Johnson. Chen鈥檚 school will also receive a new lab designed by 黑料吃瓜资源’s DNA Learning Center and valued at $100,000.
Here鈥檚 what makes a DNALC-designed classroom perfect for science education.
The is just one part of the larger Breakthrough Prizes, which were presented on November 3rd. Past Breakthrough Prize winners include CSHL鈥檚 Professor Adrian Krainer, whose work with RNA splicing led to the development of the for deadly spinal muscular atrophy (SMA).
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