Last week, eighth grader Tina Jin took the top prize in the Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge. Jin’s project, which netted her a $25,000 award, aims to increase access to clean water through a filtration system that uses animal bones, making it usable virtually anywhere in the world. The findings of her experiments were verified by the San Jose Water Company, which tested the filter and found the resulting water potable.

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Oct. 1, 2024:

Last month, eighth grader Tina Jin was named a top 30 finalist in the Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge, a premier STEM contest for middle school students. The competition is run by Society for Science, which also runs the Regeneron Science Talent Search. Finalists were selected by a panel of scientists and engineers, who viewed entries from 1,862 students from around the United States, as well as American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands.