i'm excited to introduce you to a girl, petra grutzik, a finalist at the intel international science ing festival. she is making contributions to my field, neuroscience. let's take a look. >> my name is petra, i'm 18. i'll go to stanford university. when i found i qualified for isef it was unbelievable. my promote was about birds, fimption. they -- finches, they learn how to sing like we learn to talk using foxp2. it's involved in speech development in humans and songbirds. scientists can study foxp2 in songbirds and learn about it for humans. this is my love in the life sciences building at u.c.l.a. >> reporter: petra is part of a team investigating foxp2. it's the on single gene that when mutated results in human speech and language disorder. dr nancy day was interested in reaching out to young women and helping to train them in science. >> we have excellent undergraduates at u.c.l.a. , but petra. >> she plays songs on her perch. >> she brought some of her background from working in robotics so we could have a cage that would serve a multitude of functions. that is her cage. to have