Spotlight with Scientists in School: Maryam Tsegaye, winner of Junior Breakthrough Challenge! [CC]

To celebrate International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we're interviewing 17-year-old winner of the Junior Breakthrough Challenge, Maryam Tsegaye. The Breakthrough Challenge, an international competition, requires students to choose a complex scientific principle and explain it in three minutes. Maryam’s video on Quantum tunneling is engaging, creative, and entertaining.

Maryam is the first Canadian to win the title plus $500,000 in prize money: a post-secondary scholarship fund for Maryam, prize money for her inspiring science 🧪 teacher, Ms. Vladicka, and funds for a new Breakthrough science 🧫 lab at École McTavish High School in Fort McMurray, Alberta.

Maryam candidly shares what this win means as a young, Black, female scientist. It is a conversation you don’t want to miss!

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