Jack+Andraka

=**Jack Andraka**=

**This story:**
Jack Andraka is a 15 year old who is an inventor,scientist and cancer researcher. Jack has won the 2012 Intel Science Fair grand __prize__ winner. Jack was awarded the Gordon E. Moore Award for his new developing work for, rapid, and for his method of work was to detect an increase of a protein that indicates the presence of pancreatic ovarian and lung cancer during a early stages. When the likelihood was higher of a cure. Andraka Gordon E. Moore Award was in honor of the co-founder of Intel, is for $75,000. He also has another award in a smaller categories total award was $100,500. Jack was sitting in his biology class he was drawing on his class lesson about antibodies and a article on analytical method using carbon nanotubes. Afterward he started to research, on google research.

Jack contacted 200 professors at John Hopkins University and the __National Institutes of health__. Jack received nearly 200 rejections emails back.Jack only got one positive reply from Dr. Anirban Maitra, Professor Pathology,Oncology,and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

**Science is...**
The science of Jack's story is curiosity and creativity. His curiosity and creativity led him to be successful today.

**References:**
Jack Andraka. (2013, May 17). In //Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia//. Retrieved 15:39, May 17, 2013, from []

Tucker, A. (2012, December). //Jack andraka, the teen prodigy of pancreatic cancer read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/jack-andraka-the-teen-prodigy-of-pancreatic-cancer-179996151.html//



Kirsten Dixon