Waterloo teen is finalist in Breakthrough Junior Challenge
Posted Nov 7, 2015 06:48:59 AM.
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A Waterloo teen is one of the finalists with a chance to win a scholarship worth $250-thousand through the Breakthrough Junior Challenge.
John Fish, the local sixteen-year-old, was chosen after explaining an 80-year-old paradox discovered by none other than Albert Einstein.
The challenge was to create a video explaining a complex scientific or mathematical concept and was open to students aged 13 to 18.
The grade 11 student at Sir John A. MacDonald High School, says he was inspired to make a video for the event, after visiting a local conference.
“A big portion of it comes from a conference that I went to in Waterloo during the summer, it’s an international conference where they try to introduce the mathematics of quantum mechanics, and try to make it that high school students can understand it.”
He beat out two thousand applicants from around the world to make it to the top 15.
The winner will be announced tomorrow night at 10 pm on National Geographic Television.
