Winners were selected from a pool of 2,348 applicants.
For the first time in the history of the Broadcom MASTERS National STEM Competition, all girls won the top five prizes. This is the nation’s premier science and engineering competition for middle school students, and winners were selected from a pool of 2,348 applicants from 47 states, narrowed down to 30 finalists . It was also a first in the competition's history to have more female than male finalists.
ADVERTISEMENT The top winner, Alaina Gassler from Pennsylvania, was awarded the $25,000 Samueli Foundation Prize for demonstrating a mastery of all STEM fields. Gassler’s project was titled"Improving Automobile Safety by Removing Blind Spots." She created and worked on a project designed to decrease the number of automobile accidents by reducing blind spots.
Rachel Bergey from Pennsylvania won the $10,000 Lemelson Award for Invention. This prize, awarded by The Lemelson Foundation, goes to an invention that promises solutions to real-world problems. Bergey developed a trap to trap an invasive species causing damage to trees in Pennsylvania. Her project was titled"Spotted Lanternflies: Stick’em or Trick’em."
California's Alexis MacAvoy won the $10,000 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Award for Health Advancement. MacAvoy’s project was titled"Designing Efficient, Low-Cost, Eco-Friendly Activated Carbon for Removal of Heavy Metals from Water," and she designed a water filter that uses carbon to remove heavy metals from water.
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