The story of three impressive high school science projects. Can you guess which student won $250,000 in the #RegeneronSTS? Applications open June 1: This video was sponsored by Regeneron. The Science Talent Search was founded and produced by the Society for Science and the Public.
Huge thanks to the students: Ronak Roy, Ana Humphrey, and Anjali Chadha. It was great getting to meet all of you and learn about your original scientific research.
Special thanks to Assistant Professor Konstantin Batygin for discussing Ana’s research and Planet 9 with me. More is coming on the Planet 9 front.
Ronak came up with a new design for the phoropter, the device used to determine eye-glass prescriptions. It’s basically been unchanged for 200 years. Using a liquid lens, he miniaturized the device and wrote an algorithm to determine your prescription.
Ana used math and physics to search for hidden exoplanets. There are a number of reasons why the transit method and Kepler telescope may have missed them: they’re too small, too inclined, or take too long to orbit and so were not seen. By considering which planetary systems have additional space for more planets, Ana came up with 560 locations where we may look again for planets in future.
Anjali developed an internet enabled device for measuring arsenic concentrations in drinking water. The device performs several chemical reactions to release the arsenic into a measurable state. It then reacts the arsenic with a test strip to produce a color output. This color is sampled by a camera and processed to determine the concentration of arsenic in the water sample. This has significant potential applications around the world helping reduce exposure to arsenic and potentially other contaminants.
Filming by Raquel Nuno
This is for the video "what is not random"
If the entropy of the world is increasing, and after the heat death when even the black holes have radiated itself to nothing.
Question:
Wouldn't the information just be repeat (hawking radiation)?
– the most ordered the universe
I'm just happy seeing kids today still discovering and there are societies out there still backing them the opportunities.
Science funding is far and scarce (my partner is a researcher), those who are truly passionate struggle to reach their potential because of financial limitations.
All the best to these kids, they are all winners in my opinion, and we win by cheering them on. Well done to them and thank you for sharing!!
The third one is going to be rich because a lot of companies will be interested with her idea. She will make money and then become a business woman.
Now I feel worthless…
9:27 uff
Where are all the superior aryan blue eye blondes in this video??
Oh sorry wrong website! Back to Pornhub!
A lot of Indians and Asians. Do they born with superior intellect or what?
First boy had very useful invention as it would be used by half the population,….
Is it from Laurie Laughlin?
too bad I'm a Canadian high school student.
I wonder where these people will work.
Who cares if there is a planet or not that we don't know about… the first and third person deserved the money more than the 2nd.
Damn science
Freaking nerds. I don’t even know what a planet is😂😂😂😂😂but for real these guys are geniuses
Would be interesting to see the other 2 kids who comprised the top 3.
These students make me feel really useless.
In my f*k*ng country the best thing I can get if I put all my effort on it, is having clean water an a non leaking roof
This just makes me depressed.
I wanna do that too but I'm lazy.
Regeneron sponsors my city's annual marathon
I have made some extra and ordinary
Tea + coffee = Toffee
I knew she were the winner when I saw Einstein on her shirt. Living up to Einsteins quotes will make you a genius.
Edible oxygen is next.
2:00 SERIOUSLY How is that not used in cameras yet?
250k? wtf come Europe to study you dont go bankrupt before you start work.
These kids are incredible
Hi Veritasium, that was a really cool video among many other cool videos that I saw in your channel.
I have some questions regarding that matter you might or might not have the answer to, yet I find that they worth asking for those students who might be interested in scientific projects but do not know how to really get involved.
Where do these Students get the resources they need? Is there any society who would support the work of young science enthusiasts? We know that every science project need a budget, access to appropriate literature and tools , and I believe good supervision and motivation coming from people who are familiar with the topic. And those are not easy to have access to for every young science enthusiast (or even a senior scientist for that matter). I suppose that could help many if they knew how to achieve these and how to approach the problems regarding these issues.
I appreciate your answer in advance.
Am I the only one who almost cried? So inspired, so human, so science!
When there is $250,000 involved in a HIGH SCHOOL competition, it no longer remains a high-school competition.
It becomes a competition for people who want the money and the children merely remain the representatives of such people.
Now if only there was one for Canadians…
alogaritm is everywhere these days
Thank God for kids like these. Makes me really happy 🙂
I'm such an asshole, but one of the other 2 should have won. Their inventions benefit the human race and can make a change now, whereas although discovering other planets is cool it doesn't really have any benefit to us, harsh reality it probably never will either.
The first and third students will likely become competent engineers. Neither of their inventions is particularly ground breaking or original. They will likely have successful carreers. The second student is obviusly passionate about astrophysics. You have to be to want to do that. There aren't very many wealthy astrophysists and even gaining a position where you can earn a reasonable living after getting your PhD (pretty much required) can be tough. So yeah, encourage that one as much as possible.