A Bucks County middle school student has been recognized as one of the top STEM student in the entire country.

Ethan Benjamin Shlossberg, an 8th grader at Holicong Middle School in Doylestown, is one of the 30 finalists at the 2022 Broadcom MASTERS. His STEM related project, “Quail Egg Patterns: Unique to a Quail?”, observes a natural phenomenon in the namesake birds’ eggs.

“He wondered if he could use AI to distinguish different quail egg patterns,” the Broadcom website said go his project. “If so, the work could also test if quail indeed have unique egg patterns. It could also tell farmers which quail laid which egg.”

“I realized a machine learning software, such as Amazon Rekognition, would be an ideal tool to pattern match,” Ethan said. “The model tries to guess which quail laid which test egg based on the training data.”

All of the finalists will receive a $500 cash award, and will now be able to compete for over $100,000 in prizes.

Read more about the Holicong student’s academic prowess at Broadcom MASTERS.