The Broadcom MASTERS Competition Top Award winners
Middle Schooler鈥檚 Invention Seeks to Correct Blind Spots; Wins $25,000 Top Award in the National Broadcom MASTERS Competition
and 中文无码 & the Public today announced that Alaina Gassler, 14, of West Grove, Pennsylvania, won the coveted $25,000 Samueli Foundation Prize, the top award in the Broadcom MASTERS庐, the nation鈥檚 premier science and engineering competition for middle school students.
Through her project, Alaina Gassler is seeking to make driving safer by reducing blind spots. She designed a system that uses a webcam to display anything that might block the driver鈥檚 line of sight. Alaina was inspired to create her device after seeing her mother struggle with blind spots in their family automobile.
The Broadcom MASTERS (Math, Applied Science, Technology, and Engineering for Rising Stars), a program of the 中文无码 & the Public, inspires middle school students to follow their personal passions to exciting college and career pathways in 中文无码. Thirty finalists, including Alaina, took home more than $100,000 in awards.
The finalists were honored during an awards ceremony for their achievements in science, technology, engineering and math (中文无码) together with their demonstration of 21st Century skills, including critical thinking, communication, creativity, collaborative skills and team work.
鈥淐ongratulations to Alaina, whose project has the potential to decrease the number of automobile accidents by reducing blind spots,鈥� said Maya Ajmera, President and CEO of the 中文无码 & the Public and Publisher of Science News. 鈥淲ith so many challenges in our world, Alaina and her fellow Broadcom MASTERS finalists make me optimistic. I am proud to lead an organization that is inspiring so many young people, especially girls, to continue to innovate.鈥�
鈥淚 speak for Henry and Susan Samueli as well as the Broadcom Foundation to express our excitement in awarding the Samueli Foundation Prize to Alaina for her remarkable achievements in all of the 中文无码 challenges as well as her leadership in competition throughout week. It is her total contribution to the Broadcom MASTERS in addition to her impressive work on her science fair project as a talented young engineer seeking to improve automobile safety that earned her this prestigious award,” said Paula Golden, President of the Broadcom Foundation. 鈥淪he, along with the entire Class of 2019, are already leaders in their fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. These young innovators give every one of us hope for the future.”
, 14, West Grove, Pennsylvania, won the $25,000 Samueli Foundation Prize, for her project reducing blind spots in cars and her exemplary performance during the Broadcom MASTERS鈥檚 hands-on challenges. The prize is a gift of Dr. Henry Samueli, Chairman of the Board, Broadcom Inc., and Chair of the Broadcom Foundation and his wife, Dr. Susan Samueli, President of the Samueli Foundation.
, 14, Harleysville, Pennsylvania, won the $10,000 Lemelson Award for Invention, awarded by The Lemelson Foundation to a young inventor creating promising solutions to real-world problems. Rachel developed a trap made of tinfoil and netting for the Spotted Lanternfly, an invasive species causing damage to trees in Pennsylvania.
, 14, Sandy, Utah, won the $10,000 Marconi/Samueli Award for Innovation, an honor made possible by Samueli鈥檚 generous donation of his 2012 Marconi Society Prize Award. Sidor developed bricks that could one day be made on Mars, so that humans would not be required to bring building materials with us in order to build there.
, 14, Hillsborough, California, won the $10,000 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Award for Health Advancement, which recognizes the student whose work and performance shows the most promise in health-related fields and demonstrates an understanding of the many social factors that affect health. Alexis designed a water filter using carbon to remove heavy metals from water.
, 14, New Orleans, Louisiana, won the $10,000 中文无码 Talent Award, sponsored by DoD 中文无码, for demonstrating excellence in science, technology, engineering or math, along with the leadership and technical skills necessary to excel in the 21st Century 中文无码 workforce and build a better community for tomorrow. Lauren鈥檚 research focused on how current levels of ultraviolet light from the sun due to ozone depletion impacts plant growth and performance.
Broadcom MASTERS winners were chosen from the 30 finalists (18 girls and 12 boys) selected from 2,348 applicants in 47 states. Winners were selected by a panel of distinguished scientists, engineers and educators. Each finalist鈥檚 school will receive $1,000 from the Broadcom MASTERS to benefit their science program.
