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历史上第一次,女孩们赢得了全国STEM竞赛前五名的全部奖项

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2019年12月02日

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For The First Time In History, Girls Win All The Top 5 Prizes Of The National STEM Competition

历史上第一次,女孩们赢得了全国STEM竞赛前五名的全部奖项

This year, something truly amazing happened in the Broadcom MASTERS National STEM Competition. Both the participants and organizers were excited to witness a historic moment. For the first time since the competition was launched in 2010, all top 5 prizes were awarded to girls. It’s not the only new milestone in the event, which took place last month.

今年,在Broadcom大师全国STEM竞赛中发生了一些真正令人惊奇的事情。参与者和组织者都很兴奋地见证了一个历史性的时刻。自2010年比赛启动以来,这是第一次,所有的前5名奖项都颁发给了女孩。这并不是上个月发生的事件中唯一的新里程碑。

Apparently, for the first time, out of 2,348 middle schoolers, more girls than boys were chosen to try out their strengths in the competition.

显然,在2348名初中生中,第一次有更多的女生被选中来测试自己的实力。

The finalists were judged for their knowledge of STEM subjects and demonstration of 21st-century skills, such as critical thinking, communication, creativity, collaborative skills, and teamwork. Here are the top 5 finalists:

决赛选手的评判标准是他们对STEM学科的知识和21世纪技能的展示,如批判性思维、沟通、创造力、协作技能和团队合作。以下是前5名入围者:

Alaina Gassler

阿莱娜·加斯勒

Gassler, the 14-year-old from West Grove, Pennsylvania won the $25,000 Samueli Foundation Prize for finding a way to reduce blind spots in cars.

14岁的加斯勒来自宾夕法尼亚州西格罗夫,她因为发现了一种减少汽车盲点的方法而获得了25000美元的萨缪尔基金会奖。

Alaina was inspired to solve this issue by her mother who doesn’t like driving her vehicle because of its large A-pillar design. “I started to think about how blind spots are a huge problem in all cars,” Alaina says, so she went out and solved it and won a prize for it. For more about how she did it, you can read our previous article.

阿莱娜的灵感来自她的母亲,她不喜欢驾驶她的车,因为它的大a柱设计。阿莱娜说:“我开始思考盲点在所有汽车中是一个多么严重的问题。”于是,她跑出去解决了这个问题,并因此获奖。关于她是如何做到的,你可以阅读我们之前的文章。

Sidor Clare

克莱尔

Clare the 14-year-old from Sandy, Utah, won the $10,000 Marconi/Samueli Award for Innovation .

来自犹他州桑迪市的14岁女孩克莱尔获得了1万美元的马可尼/塞缪尔利创新奖。

She invented bricks that could be made on Mars so that space explorers wouldn’t have to bring their own building materials to the planet.

她发明了可以在火星上制造的砖,这样太空探险者就不用把自己的建筑材料带到火星上了。

Rachel Bergey

瑞秋·伯吉

Bergey, the 14-year-old from Harleysville, Pennsylvania, won the $10,000 Lemelson Award for Invention, for developing a trap made of tinfoil and netting for the Spotted Lanternfly, an invasive species causing damage to trees in Pennsylvania.

14岁的伯吉来自宾夕法尼亚州的哈莱斯维尔,她因为发明了一种由锡纸和网子组成的陷阱而获得了1万美元的勒梅森奖。

“Spotted Lanternflies are most likely the largest economic threat facing Pennsylvania today, and thousands of them have invaded my family’s maple trees,” says Rachel. After observing that the current method of trapping the pests with yellow sticky bands around trees is flawed, she invented a new effective method.

“斑点灯笼蝇很可能是今天宾夕法尼亚州面临的最大的经济威胁,成千上万的斑点灯笼蝇已经入侵了我家的枫树,”瑞秋说。在观察到目前用黄色粘带诱捕害虫的方法存在缺陷后,她发明了一种新的有效方法。

Lauren Ejiaga

劳伦·埃加加

Ejiaga the 14-year-old from New Orleans, Louisiana, won the $10,000 STEM Talent Award.

来自路易斯安那州新奥尔良市的14岁女孩埃加加获得了价值1万美元的STEM天才奖。

She was awarded for her research focused on how current levels of ultraviolet light from the sun due to ozone depletion impacts plant growth and performance.

她获奖的原因是她的研究重点是由于臭氧损耗造成的当前水平的太阳紫外线如何影响植物的生长和性能。

Alexis MacAvoy

亚历克西斯·麦卡沃伊

MacAvoy the 14-year-old from Hillsborough, California, won the $10,000 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Award for Health Advancement.

来自加利福尼亚希尔斯堡的14岁女孩麦卡沃伊获得了罗伯特·伍德·约翰逊基金会颁发的1万美元健康促进奖。

She designed a water filter using carbon to remove heavy metals from water.

她设计了一个用碳去除水中重金属的滤水器。

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