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HIGHLAND SCIENCE WHIZ KIDS NET SCHOLARSHIP.


Byline: Daily News

PALMDALE - Two Highland High School Highland High School or Highlands High School may refer to:

In the United States:
  • Highland High School (Gilbert, Arizona)
  • Highland High School (Bakersfield, California)
  • Highland High School (Palmdale, California)
 seniors will share a $40,000 scholarship they won at a prestigious national science competition with research into artificial muscle.

Steven Frehn and Andrew Deagon of Palmdale were awarded third place in the team category of the Siemens Westinghouse Competition The Siemens Westinghouse Competition is a science competition which is administered by the College Board. After Siemens AG purchased Westinghouse Electric Corporation's power generation unit in 1997, it was under the impression that the prestigious Westinghouse Science Talent  in Math, Science and Technology after making presentations Sunday to judges in Washington, D.C.

The team winners were two girls from North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures


Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop.
 for research on identifying new biomarkers for the detection of breast cancer. The individual winner was a San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay.  County teen who invented a gyroscopic gy·ro·scope  
n.
A device consisting of a spinning mass, typically a disk or wheel, mounted on a base so that its axis can turn freely in one or more directions and thereby maintain its orientation regardless of any movement of the base.
 generator that converts ocean wave energy into electricity.

The winners got $100,000 scholarships.

Six individuals and six teams competed in the national finals, which were judged by a panel of scientists and mathematicians. More than 1,200 students entered the competition.

Frehn and Deagon had won the western regional competition last month in Berkeley with their research into the use of materials called dielectric electroactive polymers.
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Publication:Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Date:Dec 7, 2004
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