AsianScientist (Dec. 6, 2016) – Ms Deanna See, a 17-year-old studying at Raffles Institution in Singapore, was one of two students to win the Breakthrough Junior Challenge, a global science video competition that is part of the 2017 Breakthrough Prizes.
See’s fun and quirky five-minute video, titled ‘Superbugs! And Our Race Against Resistance,’ explains the phenomenon of antibiotic resistance with the use of Lego figurines. She takes the viewer through the evolution and genetics behind how superbugs amass their formidable defenses against various antibiotics. Watch See’s video below:
The Breakthrough Junior Challenge was designed to inspire creative thinking about fundamental concepts in the life sciences, physics, or mathematics. In recognition of their winning submissions, See and Peruvian student Ms. Antonella Masini, 18, were each awarded with a US$250,000 scholarship. On top of the scholarship money, they each received US$50,000 to award to a teacher who inspired them, and their schools received a state-of-the-art science lab valued at US$100,000.
Both See and Masini gave speeches at the awards ceremony on Sunday, December 4, that was streamed live on Facebook. Watch the video below:
The Breakthrough Prize was founded by Google co-founder Sergey Brin and his wife Anne Wojcicki, Russian billionaire inventor Yuri Milner and his wife Julia, and Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan.
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