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Science is all around you, says Shana Matthews, 14, from Palm Bay, Florida. "Everything you see and do has something to do with it." This junior scientist just won a $10,000 scholarship, the first prize for Grades 5 through 8 in the Discovery Young Scientist Challenge. The week-long competition was held at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Shana investigated helpful products that can be developed from E. coli (Ee cole-eye), a common germ.
Shana's winning ways don't stop there. She also won the Travel Channel Dream Science Trip. She asked to visit the Roslin Institute, a research lab in Scotland. There she'll meet Dolly, the first cloned sheep! "It's a real honor," she says.