Congratulations are in order for 17 year old Angela Zhang for winning the coveted $100,000 scholarship in the annual high school science competition put on by the Siemen’s Foundation. The high school student was inspired by the passing of her grandfather and designed research for a particle that would help cure cancer.
The particle is also able to release a drug when activated by a laser. The idea is still years away from being used in patients, however. Zhang says it could take 25 years between clinical trials and other steps before her research is helping patients.
I don’t know what that means but in other news, I ate a burrito for lunch the other day.
Zhang wasn’t the only Asian American to win a prize. Ziyuan Liu will be splitting another $100,000 prize with Cassie Cain for building research software “to analyze the way a person walks.” I don’t know what that means either but the last time I analyzed the way a person walked, I was trying to figure out the “Crank That” moves by Soulja Boy in Dance Central. My life is really difficult.
So there you go. Add Zhang and Liu to the list of overachieving Asian Americans who are actually contributing to the advancement of human society unlike the rest of us because we’re too busy stuffing our faces with burritos and playing dance move video games. Whatever.
