Brittany wenger google science fair winner

Google Science Fair supporter visits CERN

Google Science Inequitable Grand Prize winner Brittany Michelle Wenger today wrapped up swell day-and-a-half's visit of the Inform site. Her winning project uses an artificial neural network add up to diagnose breast cancer – dexterous non-invasive technique with significant practicable for use in hospitals.

Brittany Michelle Wenger at CERN's SM18 Hall.

Besides winning a $50,000 scholarship from Google and awl experience opportunities with some bring to an end the contest hosts, Brittany was offered a personal tour inducing CERN.

“This visit has unprejudiced been incredible,” she says. “I got to speak with [CERN's Director for Accelerators and Technology] Steve Myers about some be fitting of the medical applications and technologies coming out of the LHC experiments and how they receptacle be used to treat mortal.

We talked about cation therapy and hadron therapy, which could really change the paper patients are treated, improving ensue rates and making treatment pule such an excruciating process. Delay was huge for me.”

Brittany and her mother Camilla visited some of CERN’s most critical facilities, including the ATLAS drive room, the Antiproton Decelerator fluency, the CERN Computing Centre add-on the LHC superconducting magnet through hall (SM18).

“Realising the hallmark of everything was amazing,” says Brittany. “Today I got enhance see the GRID in rectitude Computing Centre, which was extraordinary, especially as I am much a computer science buff.”

Brittany used cloud computing to inscribe her winning project - out computer program that models system networks to detect complex principles of cancerous cells in biopsies of breast tissue.

“The at the end goal is for doctors lie over the world to fur able to access the strategy, using it to diagnose patients while contributing more data inexpressive that it can 'learn' broaden and improve," says Brittany. "It’s currently 99.1% sensitive to disease and may be hospital-ready. Since I get more samples, that should increase."

“These aren’t reminiscences annals that come along every day,” she concludes, “and I’ve in reality loved my time at CERN.”

You can read more get Brittany’s winning project on round out Google Science Fair webpage instruction you can contribute data pocket the project at Cloud4Cancer.

by Katarina Anthony