Virginia STEM Awards - Ana Humphrey, STEM Phenom

Humphrey, a 17-year-old junior at T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, exemplifies STEM practices in a number of her endeavors. In 2014 Humphrey created Watershed Warriors, which was originally a club and grew into a stand-alone nonprofit in late 2017. The organization pairs high school students with fifth graders to promote environmental awareness through hands-on wetland gardening. Since it began, the restoration and educational initiative has engaged more than 475 students from mostly low-income and minority communities in Northern Virginia.
Humphrey also designed and coded a computer application that can identify colonies of E. coli bacteria in a water sample test. The inexpensive, simple and accurate app counts and classifies colonies of E. Coli in the sample, a task usually done by hand. When used in the field, Humphrey’s program can help provide citizen scientists, water quality groups and government entities an easier and more consistent method for monitoring waterborne E. coli.
Humphrey was selected as a 2018 Outstanding STEM Award recipient for increasing student interest in STEM fields at a young age and encouraging youth to take action by getting involved in their communities. In addition to being named a Virginia STEM Phenom, she has received several other prizes and awards including recognition at national science fairs for her multi-year astronomy research project focusing on exoplanets.

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Came here from Veritasium episode on RegeneronSTS competition. Really impressed. Well deserved winning!

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This girl is amazing I just saw that she won $250,000 for an amazing science project based on cosmology and how to find more exoplanets in the Kepler telescope data.

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