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Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Sponsors Teen Video Challenge
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, co-founded by Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg, is helping fund the Breakthrough Junior Challenge.
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Imagine someone offered you a $250,000 scholarship for a video you made in biology class on osmosis.
That's the basic premise of the Breakthrough Junior Challenge, a competition for students around the world aged 13 to 18. Students must make a video, up to 3 minutes long, explaining a concept in math, physics, or life sciences.
"The Breakthrough Junior Challenge gives young people a chance to share their knowledge of math and science in a fun and creative way," Priscilla Chan, co-founder of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, said in a statement. The challenge is funded in part of by the Initiative, which Chan started with husband Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook.
The challenge is another push to get kids interested in the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields.
What's on the line? There's a $250,000 scholarship. In addition, the winning student's teacher gets $50,000 and his or her school gets a $100,000 science lab.
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