A Conestoga High School senior just won $75,000 for sticking his fingers in the genes of a living cell. The science experiment for the Intel Science Talent Search earned Conestoga’s Michael Zhang second place.

The Berwyn teen competed in the global good category and endeavored to make gene tweaks using the CRISPR editing technique, according to a Philly.com report by Tom Avril.

Zhang medaled in this year’s field of 40 finalists and 1,750 total participants, but Conestoga isn’t the only Chester County high school to have produced a top Intel Science Talent Search performer. Last year, Unionville High School’s Shashwat Kishore proved to possess a touch of bronze in abstract math work on the representation theory. He took home $35,000 for the third-place finish.

Read more about Zhang’s prize on Philly.com here, and check out previous VISTA Today coverage of Conestoga High news here.