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Junior Scientist Award: Westport Student Earns Prestigious STEM Program Award
A Connecticut middle school student impressed a national STEM competition with a potential study that could be out of this world. Fairfield County resident Ziggy Zhao, who attends the Pierrepont School in Westport, won one of the five Junior Scientist Awards from the Genes in Space contest, which asks students from across the country to design biology experiments that address real-world challenges in space exploration. The winning study will be carried out by astronauts aboard the International Space Station next year. The 12-year-old Zhao created an exper…