The Breakthrough Prizes ( aka Science Oscar's)

[Igor]

Need to do a little family bragging, congratulations to my nephew Ryan for winning the initial Junior Breakthrough prize, which gets him 250k, his physics teacher 50k, and the high school getting 100k in lab equipment. Watched the ceremony live on National Geographic, a surreal experience. My wife is pissed she didn't put makeup on before the filming, my daughters are in it too.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/11/08/breakthrough-junior-prize-mark-zuckerberg-priscilla-chan/75325460/

http://www.popsci.com/first-ever-breakthrough-prize-junior-winner-made-this-cool-science-video

[Lucky]

Absolutely amazing. Great looking kid, I know the whole family is so proud.

You'll have to keep us posted on his college plans.

[Piney Boy]

Awesome. Congrats to Ryan.

[Mithrandir]

Need to do a little family bragging, congratulations to my nephew Ryan for winning the initial Junior Breakthrough prize, which gets him 250k, his physics teacher 50k, and the high school getting 100k in lab equipment. Watched the ceremony live on National Geographic, a surreal experience. My wife is pissed she didn't put makeup on before the filming, my daughters are in it too.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/11/08/breakthrough-junior-prize-mark-zuckerberg-priscilla-chan/75325460/

http://www.popsci.com/first-ever-bre...-science-video

So awesome! Video is really cool!!

[Mithrandir]

Need to do a little family bragging, congratulations to my nephew Ryan for winning the initial Junior Breakthrough prize, which gets him 250k, his physics teacher 50k, and the high school getting 100k in lab equipment. Watched the ceremony live on National Geographic, a surreal experience. My wife is pissed she didn't put makeup on before the filming, my daughters are in it too.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/11/08/breakthrough-junior-prize-mark-zuckerberg-priscilla-chan/75325460/

http://www.popsci.com/first-ever-bre...-science-video

So awesome! Video is really cool!!

[OaklandA's]

Great stuff!

[Judge Jude]

that's tremendous. I was also fascinated by the same Einstein analysis at the same age but..... yeah, I just read about it and was intrigued and that's all I had, lol.

a separate sticky thread to celebrate family milestones and accomplishments might be nice. I love these notices

[DMT]

Yeah, science!

[johnnya24]

Damn dude. Life is easy right

[Igor]

Have not had a chance to speak with him yet, but my wife talked to him on the phone, the got back last night. He got to speak with Zuckerberg quite a bit, and the CEO of Google. He also got approached by Harvard and MIT at the after party. A general talked to him about West Point, not sure which one, but I know Patreus was there. His original plans were to go to Ohio U. Fox will rebroadcast a one hour version of the award ceremony on Nov. 29, at 7 p.m. Wait, what, Fox and science? Rupert was there too.

[griswold]

This is fantastic!

Congrats to your nephew and the whole family!

[griswold]

Have not had a chance to speak with him yet, but my wife talked to him on the phone, the got back last night. He got to speak with Zuckerberg quite a bit, and the CEO of Google. He also got approached by Harvard and MIT at the after party. A general talked to him about West Point, not sure which one, but I know Patreus was there. His original plans were to go to Ohio U. Fox will rebroadcast a one hour version of the award ceremony on Nov. 29, at 7 p.m. Wait, what, Fox and science? Rupert was there too.

Hey, that's where my daughters go!!!!

Let me know if he ends up there!

[Fresno Bob]

that's frakking awesome