{
  "id": 16894456,
  "title": "Meet Bailey Quinn Frank, 15: Air sampler wins $25,000 national science prize",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/28/meet-bailey-quinn-frank-15-air-sampler-wins-25-000-national-science",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-28T11:30:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Times of India",
    "slug": "times-of-india",
    "url": "https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/science/discovery/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-25000-science-prize-among-nearly-2000-applicants/articleshow/135262046.cms"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Bailey Quinn Frank, a 15-year-old student from Fort Lauderdale, won a $25,000 award for her innovation. She developed a low-cost device to collect airborne bacterial DNA, benefiting environmental health monitoring. Frank's project displayed differences in bacterial communities in indoor and outdoor air samples. The competition included various challenges focusing on scientific problem-solving and…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}