Meet Bailey Quinn Frank, 15, from Fort Lauderdale, who built an air sampler with a small fan and filter paper to collect bacterial DNA; she has now won a $25,000 science prize among nearly 2,000 applicants

• Bailey Quinn Frank received the top prize at the 2026 Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge, announced on October 27.
• According to the official announcement by Society for Science, Baile