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A finalist for the title of “America’s Top Young Scientist,” Stoller Middle School student Rishab Jain
credits other family members for getting him interested in scientific fields growing up.
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from India, said she’s excited to
see her son interested in a field
that not only helps him, through
learning, but also could benefit
a lot of people all over the globe
who suffer the disease.
“That’s always something that
we talked to kids [about]…do
something that can impact com-
munity. And that’s what Rishab is
probably trying to achieve. We’re
very excited and proud of him,”
she said.
Besides trying to improve can-
cer treatment effectiveness, the
young inventor is pretty much just
a normal kid that enjoys playing
with Rubick’s Cubes, swimming,
reading, collecting Boy Scout
merit badges, and going to sum-
mer camp.
He credits other family mem-
bers for getting him interested in
scientific fields growing up.
“I’ve always been inspired by
my cousin and my brother ex-
ploring the medical field [a spinal
surgeon and med student, respec-
tively]. And on the other hand,
my father is a hardware engineer
at Intel. I got to do a lot of pro-
gramming experiments with him,
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so that’s also really interesting.
It’s really cool to see both of those
fields come together, the engineer-
ing and medical fields,” Jain said.
He was also inspired by Steve
Jobs, the former Apple CEO and
computer innovator who died
from pancreatic cancer in 2011 at
the age of 56.
Over the summer, Jain will be
working with another mentor, 3M
scientist Dr. Döne Demirgöz, over
Skype to further develop his tech-
nology before meeting her, and the
other nine contestants, in real life
in St. Paul, Minnesota in October
where they’ll compete for the grand
prize of $25,000 and the title of
“America’s Top Young Scientist.”
When asked what he would do
with the money should he win,
Jain said: “I would definitely split
up the money. I would spend a
majority of it on my pancreatic
cancer research and the rest of it
I would probably keep...save it or
keep it aside for college.”