Science is often shaped by enthusiastic young people that want to make their mark. Maryam Tsegaye (age 17) certainly falls within this category, winning the annual Breakthrough Junior Challenge for ...

The Breakthrough Prize Foundation has formally announced 17-year-old Maryam Tsegaye has won the sixth annual Breakthrough Junior Challenge science competition. The Breakthrough Junior Challenge is a ...

Fort McMurray high schooler Maryam Tsegaye needs just under three minutes to explain the university-level physics concept of quantum tunnelling in a way that fellow teens can digest. The 17-year-old ...

The Canadian teenager Maryam Tsegaye has bagged a total of $400,000 in prizes for making the above video about quantum tunnelling. Tsegaye, 17, is winner of the 2020 Breakthrough Junior Challenge, ...

Days after capturing top prize in a major global science competition, prominent Canadians continue to send messages of congratulations to the teenager from Fort McMurray, Alta., who earned the ...

What does it take to make an award-winning video about science? Maryam Tsegaye (pronounced tsah-GUY) will tell you: a good idea and some hard work. The 17-year-old from Fort McMurray, Alberta, is the ...

Maryam Tsegaye, 17, (Fort McMurray, Canada), Receives Top Honors and $400,000 in Education Prizes for Original Video Bringing Quantum Tunneling to Life SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 3, 2020 /CNW/ -- The ...

A Fort McMurray, Alta., student is the first Canadian to win the $500,000 Cdn international Breakthrough Junior Challenge, a prize that includes a scholarship and new science lab for her school.

Albertans, let’s take a leaf from the academic performance of 17-year-old student Maryam Tsegaye and shrug off isolation and lockdowns with our own personal challenge. Tsegaye is the first Canadian ...

A Grade 12 student from Fort McMurray, Alta., has won an international science competition, Breakthrough Junior Challenge, with a three minute video explaining quantum tunnelling. Maryam Tsegaye’s ...

For the third time in two years, a student from a Fort McMurray high school has won a major scholarship for students planning to pursue post-secondary studies in science, technology, engineering or ...