Harleysville Girl Follows Up Delaware Valley Science Fair Gold Medal With Prize at National Science Competition

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After winning gold at Delaware Valley Science Fair, Rachel Bergey of Harleysville also claimed a prize at the Broadcom MASTERS science competition. Image via 69News WFMZ-TV.

After winning the gold medal at Delaware Valley Science Fair, Rachel Bergey of Harleysville went on to claim one of the top prizes at the Broadcom MASTERS science competition for middle-school students, writes Tom Avril for The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Bergey won one of four $10,000 awards with her spotted lanternfly project out of the thirty finalists at the national competition in Washington in October.

She first decided to tackle the issue of spotted lanternflies, which have been wreaking havoc around Pennsylvania for the last several years, when she noticed the pests had spread to the trees on her family’s maple farm.

With some guidance from Lisa Reichley, a local middle-school science teacher, Bargey turned her attempts on solving the spotted lanternfly issue on her farm into a science fair project.

To do this, she decided to use the lanternflies’ instinct of crawling upward by making tin foil tunnels on the trees that led the insects into a net, where they would then die after a day or two.

The money she won for her contraption will be used to further the young inventor’s education.

Read more about Rachel Bergey at The Philadelphia Inquirer by clicking here.

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