A senior at Westmoore High School Oklahoma has won a $100,000 scholarship which she hopes to use to attend either Stanford or the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  17-year old Mary Masterman won the competition by building a $300 spectrograph, a device used to identify characteristics of different kind of molecules, which can cost thousands of dollars.

Mary was victorious over some 1,700 students who entered.

Story via The New York Times 

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