This is the beautiful video they made about Summer and her project at the Carnegie Science Awards evening

Our own Summer Hartman won one of the most prestigious science awards available, The Carnegie Science Award. This award honors and celebrates the innovators whose outstanding science and technology achievements make western Pennsylvania great and inspire the next generation. Only one student in the Jr. Science Division of the Pittsburgh Science and Engineering Fair can win this award in any given year.

The Description from the Program from the Awards Ceremony:
Concern over a potential new ethane pipeline near her home prompted Summer Hartman, a sixth-grader at Baden Academy Charter School in Beaver County, to investigate the environmental impact of using sodium bentonite clay for pipeline drilling. Her Covestro Pittsburgh Regional Science and Engineering Fair project hypothesized that the clay would cause a significant drop in the mobility and vitality of daphnia magna, a small planktonic crustacean. After testing various amounts of sodium bentonite clay in water containing daphnia magna, she found that more daphnia were nonviable the more the substance was added, leading her to believe that it is dangerous. “Effects of Bentonite Clay on Daphnia” received first place in Junior Division Biological Sciences.

We are so proud of her!