Competing students' science skills sparkle.The envelope please.... Judges have unveiled the names of 40 high school seniors with the starring research projects of the 1999 Intel Science Talent Search The Intel Science Talent Search (Intel STS) is a prestigious research-based science competition in the United States primarily for high school students. The Intel STS is administered by the Science Service, which began the competition in 1942 with Westinghouse; for many years, the . Selected from 1,470 contestants, the finalists will partake of $330,000 in scholarships--a $125,000 increase from last year. Who shall win the lion's share depends on the next round of competition. After 6 days of additional judging and interviews starting March 3, 10 winners will emerge to claim the top awards. The first-place prize is $50,000, and second and third places receive $40,000 and $30,000, respectively. Fourth through sixth places win $20,000 each, and seventh through tenth places win $15,000 apiece. The remaining 30 finalists each receive $3,000. This year's finalist group includes 22 boys and 18 girls. The number of female finalists leaped 20 percent from last year. Among the group's ranks are the second home-schooled finalist in the competition's history, the youngest finalist--age 14--since 1978, and the first finalists in more than an decade from Louisiana and Puerto Rico Puerto Rico (pwār`tō rē`kō), island (2005 est. pop. 3,917,000), 3,508 sq mi (9,086 sq km), West Indies, c.1,000 mi (1,610 km) SE of Miami, Fla. . The students' research projects spanned the sciences, including astrophysics astrophysics, application of the theories and methods of physics to the study of stellar structure, stellar evolution, the origin of the solar system, and related problems of cosmology. , biology, ecology, math, physics, and psychology. Science Service, the publisher of Science News, has administered the 58-year-old competition since its inception. In previous years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time Science Talent Search was sponsored by Westinghouse. Intel Corp. assumed sponsorship of the contest in March 1998. Craig R. Barrett, Intel's president and chief executive officer, saluted the finalists. "The success of the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. depends in large measure on continuing to lead the world in innovation and production of high-tech products. The next better ideas will come from these young scientists," he said. Barrett will present the awards March 8. The 40 finalists are: * California: Leon Marcel Bellan, Polytechnic School Polytechnic School, often referred to as simply Poly, is a college preparatory private school in Pasadena, California. The school was founded in 1907 as the first private non-profit elementary school in California, descended from the Throop Polytechnic Institute , Pasadena; Rio Gabriel Bennin, home-schooled, Berkeley; Erika Natalie Ebbel, Crystal Springs Uplands School Crystal Springs Uplands School is a private high school and middle school located in Hillsborough, California, an affluent suburb about 20 miles south of San Francisco. Crystal Springs Uplands is a college-preparatory school; virtually all, if not all, of its graduates go on to , Hillsborough; Nathan Andrew Fleischaker, La Costa Canyon H.S., Carlsbad; Michael Yen Ming Lew, La Jolla H.S., La Jolla. * Colorado: Natalia Toro Toro may refer to:
* Connecticut: Mary Alice Dombrowski, Glastonbury H.S., Glastonbury. * Florida: David Lee Harden, South Miami Senior H.S., Miami. * Georgia: Charles Rollin Mathis, Oconee County H.S., Watkinsville. * Hawaii: Emi Malia Eno, Henry Perrine Baldwin H.S., Wailuku. * Illinois: Keith Jonathan Winstein, Illinois Math & Science Academy, Aurora. * Iowa: Carol Anne Fassbinder, Valley Community H.S., Elgin. * Louisiana: Rachel Anne Cox, Airline H.S., Bossier City. * Maryland: Wei-Li Deng, James Michael Hansen, Grace C-Hwei Lin, Michael Randolph Maire, David C. Moore, and Scott Michael Safranek, all of Montgomery Blair H.S., Silver Spring. * Massachusetts: Seth Abrams Ament a·ment n. A person whose intellectual capacity remains undeveloped. , Falmouth Academy, Falmouth; Scott Alexander Fruhan, The Roxbury Latin School Roxbury Latin School, founded in 1645 and located at 101 Saint Theresa Avenue in West Roxbury, Massachusetts since 1927, is the oldest school in continuous existence in North America.[1] Roxbury Latin was established in Roxbury, Massachusetts in 1645 by the Rev. , West Roxbury. * New Jersey: Binh Dao Vo, Governor Livingston Regional H.S., Berkeley Heights. * New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of : Trevor Alan Bass, Great Neck South H.S., Great Neck; Cullen H. Blake, Bethlehem Central H.S., Delmar; Angela Patricia Burgess, Bronx H.S. of Science, Bronx; Lauren Cooper, Roslyn H.S., Roslyn Heights; Daniel H. Grollman, Bronx H.S. of Science, Bronx; Shana Traci Lippel, Lawrence H.S., Cedarhurst; Lisa Beth Schwartz, Roslyn H.S., Roslyn Heights; Eric David Stern, Great Neck South H.S., Great Neck; Nicholas Joseph Superina, Smithtown H.S., Smithtown; Diana Barnard Townsend-Butterworth, The Chapin School, New York; Kirsten Graham Wickelgren, Stuyvesant H.S., New York; Alexander David Wissner-Gross, Great Neck South H.S., Great Neck. * Oregon: Patricia Jeanne Semura, Oregon Episcopal School, Portland. * Pennsylvania: Brett Charles De Poister, Central Catholic H.S., Reading. * Puerto Rico: Dorimar Morales, Colegio Maria Auxiliadora H.S., Carolina. * Virginia: Sirisha Venkata Kalicheti, Chantilly H.S., Chantilly; Kurt Elliott Mitman, Thomas Jefferson H.S. for Science & Technology, Alexandria. * Washington: Constance JoAnne Wang, Hanford H.S., Richland. |
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