The Regeneron Science Talent Search is described by the Society for Science as the nation's oldest and most prestigious science and maths competition for high school seniors. It makes sense that most projects address issues that are somewhat unrelated to the researcher's personal life. Ava Grace Cummings made the opposite decision. The senior from Smithfield, North Carolina, who is eighteen years old, based her research on an illness she had personally witnessed in the faces of people she knew.
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