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Second place, October 2023

Discovery Education announced the result on 11 October 2023. The title of America's Top Young Scientist went to Heman Bekele, a ninth grader at W. T. Woodson High School in Annandale, Virginia, for a skin-cancer-treating soap, with $25,000.

Kalbhavi was second with EasyBZ, described as a cost-effective microneedle patch enabling self-administered drug delivery without traditional pills or injections, and received $2,000. Sarah Wang, a seventh grader at The Pike School in Andover, Massachusetts, took third with a glove designed to detect epileptic seizures, also for $2,000. Annie Katz won the public-voted Improving Lives Award for an automated ultrasound device to detect hamstring lesions.

Why microneedles matter

A microneedle patch is an array of needles too short to reach the nerve endings that register pain, mounted on an adhesive backing. Pressed onto the skin, it delivers a drug through the outer layer without a syringe, a trained injector or, in most designs, a sharps bin afterwards.

The clinical appeal is in what it removes rather than what it adds. Injectable drugs require cold chains, clinics and staff; oral drugs are destroyed by the digestive tract if they are large molecules, which is why insulin and most biologics cannot simply be swallowed. A patch a patient can apply alone sits between the two. The obstacle has generally been manufacturing cost, which is precisely the term Kalbhavi's entry is described as addressing: cost-effective, self-administered.

The summer that makes the prototype

The 3M Young Scientist Challenge invites middle school students to enter with a short video setting out an idea. Ten finalists are chosen, and each is paired one-to-one with a 3M scientist as a mentor for the summer, with the explicit brief of turning the concept into a working prototype before the final.

That structure is why the finalists' projects sound like products rather than experiments. A student arrives at the two-day final in St Paul having spent months with a professional researcher on materials, tolerances and testing. The judging then weighs ingenuity, the application of science and engineering, passion for research, presentation and the ability to inspire, which is a list that rewards the whole arc from idea to demonstration.

The line she joined

The challenge's recent record shows a consistent preference for cheap medical devices aimed at access rather than at novelty. The 2022 winner, Leanne Fan, built headphones that detect and treat middle-ear infection with machine learning and blue light; the 2022 runner-up, Harini Venkatesh, a faster and cheaper way to measure short-sightedness. The 2024 winner, Sirish Subash, built a handheld pesticide detector.

Set beside them, EasyBZ is characteristic: an established idea from the research literature, pushed towards a price a household could meet. That is a legitimate and underrated kind of invention, and it is the kind a fourteen-year-old with a mentor and a summer can plausibly advance.

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What is documented, and what is not

Firm: Kalbhavi was a ninth grader at Lynbrook High School in San Jose, California; she placed second at the 2023 3M Young Scientist Challenge with EasyBZ; the prize was $2,000; the final ran on 9 and 10 October 2023 at 3M's global headquarters in St Paul, Minnesota.

Not documented: her age or birth year, the materials or drug used in the patch, any test results, whether the design was pursued after the competition, and anything published about her since October 2023.

업적 연대표

Shripriya Kalbhavi — every milestone on this page, in order.

2023

3M Y 결선 진출자 10인에 선정3M 영 사이언티스트 챌린지 결선 진출자 10인에 선정되어 여름 동안 3M 과학자 멘토와 함께함

9-10 Oct 2023

3M에서 열린 2일간의 결선 참가세인트폴 소재 3M 글로벌 본사에서 열린 2일간의 결선 참가

11 Oct 2023

EasyBZ로 준우승 발표 및 상금EasyBZ로 준우승 및 2,000달러 상금 획득 발표; 헤만 베켈레가 피부암 치료용 비누로 우승

Since 2023

추가 공개 기록 없음이 페이지에서 사용된 자료에서 더 이상의 공개 기록을 찾을 수 없음

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Shripriya Kalbhavi - 3M Young Scientist Challenge 2023 first runner-upSrinivas Kalbhavi

역사적 비교

인물	국가	이정표	나이 / 기록
Shripriya Kalbhavi	미국	2023 3M 영 사이언티스트 챌린지 2위	—
Raphael Hurley	아일랜드	1998년 올해의 젊은 과학자, 모노폴리의 수학	—
Marina Dimitrov	미국	2009년 미국 최고의 젊은 과학자	—
Minula Weerasekera	미국	2024 3M 영 사이언티스트 챌린지 2위	—
Harini Venkatesh	미국	2022 3M 영 사이언티스트 챌린지 2위	—

What is documented — and what is not

✓ Documented

Second place and $2,000 at the 2023 3M Young Scientist Challenge with EasyBZ
Ninth grader at Lynbrook High School, San Jose, California
EasyBZ described as a cost-effective microneedle patch for self-administered drug delivery
The final ran 9-10 October 2023 at 3M headquarters in St Paul

? Unverified, disputed or wrong

Age and birth year are not stated
No materials, dosing or test data for the patch are published
Nothing documented about her work after October 2023

Questions people ask about Shripriya Kalbhavi

What is EasyBZ?

Shripriya Kalbhavi's entry to the 2023 3M Young Scientist Challenge: a cost-effective microneedle patch that lets a drug be self-administered without pills or injections.

What did she win?

Second place and $2,000.

Who won the 2023 challenge?

Heman Bekele, a ninth grader from Annandale, Virginia, for a skin-cancer-treating soap, with $25,000 and the title America's Top Young Scientist.

What is a microneedle patch?

An adhesive array of needles too short to reach pain-sensing nerve endings, which delivers a drug through the outer skin without a syringe or a trained injector.