Blood test, 3-D graphics win top prize.A painless, no-needle way of checking blood hemoglobin and a method of speeding up computer graphics took highest honors among nearly 1,200 entries in the 1998 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair The Intel International Science and Engineering Fair is the largest pre-college scientific research event in the world. Each May, over 1500 students from 52 nations are flown in to compete in the fair for scholarships, tuition grants, internships, scientific field trips and the . The 49th annual fair opened May 10 in Fort Worth, Texas Fort Worth is the fifth-largest city in the state of Texas, 18th-largest city in the United States[1], and voted one of "America’s Most Livable Communities. , with a big bang of festivities, including a rodeo. By the end, on May 15, some 740 students had won $2 million in prizes and scholarships. The formidable competitors arrived from 34 countries. Eight students have already applied for patents on their work, and more than 100 others report plans to do so. The noninvasive method of measuring hemoglobin came from 16-year-old Karen Mendelson of Worcester, Mass. She shared the top honor with 17-year-old Geoffrey Schmidt of Little Rock, Ark., who developed a way to hasten computer rendering of large, complicated, three-dimensional images. As the top winners, they will attend the Nobel prize ceremonies in Sweden this December. Schmidt also won one of the three $40,000 Young Scientist Scholarships awarded by Intel this year. The others went to Jonathan Kelner of Old Westbury, N.Y., for a study of quark behavior and to James Lawler of Greenwich, Conn., for a mathematical model of electric potentials at phase boundaries in a metal. Mendelson won one of the scholarships last year. U.S. students dominated the awards for best of category, taking 11 of the 15 prizes. More than half of the $5,000 awards went to girls. In life sciences, the award in behavioral science went to Ashley Eden of Montgomery Blair High School Montgomery Blair High School (most often simply known as Blair) is a public high school located in Silver Spring in unincorporated Montgomery County, Maryland. in Silver Spring, Md., for work on color visual noise; biochemistry, Adam Bly, Herzliah High School in Montreal, for fusing a gene to green fluorescent protein "EGFP" redirects here. EGFP may also refer to the ICAO airport code for Pembrey Airport. The green fluorescent protein (GFP) is a protein, comprised of 238 amino acids (26,9 kDa), from the jellyfish Aequorea victoria ; botany, Joseph Hastings of North Attleboro, Mass., for a project on the effects of ethylene; environmental science, Natasha Mensch mensch or mensh n. pl. mensch·es or mensch·en Informal A person having admirable characteristics, such as fortitude and firmness of purpose: , Tahoka (Texas) High School, for a study of the gasification gas·i·fy tr. & intr.v. gas·i·fied, gas·i·fy·ing, gas·i·fies To convert into or become gas. gas of biomass; gerontology, Susie Morris, Carbon High School in Price, Utah, for checking aspartame's effects on learning in rats; medicine and health, Claire Heslop, Notre Dame Catholic High School, Carleton Place, Ontario, for a project on spina bifida; microbiology, Linda Arnade, Stone Junior High School, Melbourne, Fla., for looking at seasonal water contamination; and zoology, Andrew Shuman, Lawrence High School Lawrence High School may refer to: In the US:
Other best of category honors were chemistry, James Lawler, Greenwich (Conn.) High School; computer science, Geoffrey Schmidt, Little Rock (Ark.) Central High School; earth and space sciences, Cristina Beno, Mast Academy, Key Biscayne, Fla., for groundwater studies; engineering, Mary Manning of Notre Dame Academy Notre Dame Academy may refer to:
Science Service of Washington, D.C., which publishes Science News, administers the fair. |
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