14-Year-Old Sarah Park America’s Top Young Scientist of 2021

[RadishRose]

Named by 3M

Sarah created Spark Care+, an innovation that personalizes music therapy treatment for mental health improvement using artificial intelligence (AI), skin response (GSR) and photoplethysmography (PPG). As the 3M Young Scientist Challenge grand prize winner, Sarah received a $25,000 cash prize, the prestigious title of “America’s Top Young Scientist,” and a special destination trip.

In second place, Samarth Mahapatra from Marietta, Ga., an eighth-grader at Dodgen Middle School in Cobb County High School Area 1. Samarth deployed edge computing and advance vision algorithms to help people with vision impairments cook with ease.

In third place, Snigtha Mohanraj from West Haven, Conn., an eighth-grader at Engineering and Science University Magnet School in New Haven Public School District. Snigtha invented Ferro-Sponge, a novel way to remove microplastics and oil from contaminated water.

https://worldnewsera.com/news/educa...c-therapy-treatment-to-improve-mental-health/

 

[Buckeye]

Interesting article. God Bless these brilliant young minds/

 

[OneEyedDiva]

OMG...she's adorable and smart! I love reading about brilliant children who contribute to positive changes the world. An innovation that can be used to help those with mental health issues is an important one.

 

[Alligatorob]

Thanks for this! I think recognizing brilliant young minds is a good thing, these kids all seem to fit that description.

A couple of observations, it looks to me like many of the top winners were young women, and judging by the names a lot of them are from recent immigrant families. I think that is a good thing, even though I am neither.

When I was a kid I entered my school's science fairs, I won a couple of school level prizes and went to the county level, but never won anything there. Despite being way short of these kids that helped push me into engineer and the career I chose. At that time there were very few women or folks from exotic places like India, Africa, or China in the competitions.

I believe that by including women in our pool of scientists and engineers we have doubled our brain power (some might say more than doubled, LOL). That has been a good thing for us all. Too much talent was wasted in days gone by.

I also believe the folks from families who have more recently immigrated here shows how we (the US anyway) has benefited by so many of the world's best and brightest moving here.

All the diversity helps us all.

 

[RadishRose]

All the diversity helps us all.

Yes!