For my 7th grade science fair project my dad helped me test the
germs on people’s hands after washing them with different brands
of soap. The goal was to see which hand soap was the most
effective. I got to use petri dishes and watch bacteria grow. I
thought it was super impressive. Well, turns out teenagers today
are really raising the bar. Take Brittany Wenger from Sarasota,
Florida who recently won this year’s Google Science Fair for
developing a computer program that helps doctors detect breast
cancer using less invasive methods. Puts my science fair project
to shame! The 17-year-old ran 7.6 million trials and spent more
than 600 hours coding the computer program which she has been
working on since 7th grade. She hopes to continue to scale up
the program so that it can be used in hospitals across the
country. Brittany’s project is impressive on many levels,
especially when you consider how much women and girls are
underrepresented in the computer science industry. She is happy
to break stereotypes that sa