Congrats to Grace, a 16-year-old student from the Chula Vista area, who has been named one of 15 Finalists from across the globe in the annual Breakthrough Junior Challenge competition.
Grace, who created an original science video is now in the running to receive $400,000 worth of prizes, including a college scholarship and a new science lab for their school.
Founded in 2015, the Breakthrough Junior Challenge is a global science video contest that encourages students to create engaging and imaginative videos that demonstrate difficult scientific concepts and theories in the physical or life sciences. Think: Steven Spielberg meets Albert Einstein.
Grace’s video focuses on the Principle of Least Time, which she makes into a fairytale-like story, featuring origami she created herself, in a stop-motion video. Grace focused on the Principle of Least Time because it is a very simple scientific theory, but it impacts many areas of physics.
Grace mainly has an interest in science communications and generally all science fields. Grace is currently the Education Chair for the MiRcore Volunteer Program, a national nonprofit based out of the University of Michigan that engages high schoolers with computational biology and medical research. Grace also has a peer-reviewed publication on a single-cell study of the effect of vaping on influenza infection.
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