A student from the Philippine Science Eastern Visayas Campus won the Breakthrough Junior Challenge – considered the Oscars of Science – bringing home millions worth of educational prizes for herself and her school.
Hillary Diane Andales was awarded in early December at the NASA Ames with $400,000 in educational prizes, including a scholarship worth up to $250,000, another $50,000 for the science teacher who inspired her, and a state-of-the-art science lab for her school valued at $100,000 designed by and in partnership with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
The 18-year-old senior high school student submitted her winning video to the Breakthrough Junior Challenge physics category, focused on reference frames in general relativity.
Andales in a Facebook post said she spent about a year making the 3-minute video about Relativity and Reference Frames.
The Leyte resident posted about her love for science and how she intends to dream bigger after winning the Breakthrough Junior Challenge.
“Now that I have been given this platform to speak to many …