Intel International Science and Engineering Fair Awards Over $2 Million in Scholarships and Grants to Students From Over 47 Countries.

PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 7, 1999--

Teens from Iowa, Florida and Virginia Take Top Honor at 50th ISEF

The Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), the world's largest pre-college science competition, today recognized the world's brightest high school science and engineering students for their scientific achievements with over $2 million in scholarships and grants. The top all-around competitors at the Intel ISEF were: Feng Zhang, 17, from Theodore Roosevelt High School in Des Moines, Iowa; Jennifer Pelka, 16, from Lake Highland Preparatory School in Orlando, Fla.; and Nisha Nagarkatti, 17, from Blacksburg High School in Blacksburg, Va. Each received the Intel Young Scientist Scholarship award worth $40,000. They were chosen for their excellence in scientific research, ability to articulate their discoveries and their overall scientific promise.

For his project, entitled "Prevention of Retroviral Assembly by Expressing Mutant GFP-Capsid Fusion Genes," Zhang developed a therapeutic model that could potentially be used to prevent the formation of infectious retroviruses and stop the spread of the HIV virus.

Pelka's project in graph theory and Hamilton circuitry, "Hamiltonicity of Graphs of Self-Complementary Degree Sequences," applies in solving the human genome project. Through her research, she proved five mathematical theorems in discrete mathematics.

Nagarkatti's project entitled "Fas-Fas Ligand Interactions Play an Important Role in Successful Therapy of Cancer," is aimed at investigating more effective treatments of cancer. Through her research, Nagarkatti discovered a way to treat cancer cells while not effecting healthy cells.

Other awards from Intel and other organizations include: -0-

--   Pinnacle Awards - In addition to the Intel Young Scientist
     Scholarship award:

     -    Glenn T. Seaborg Nobel Prize Visit award recipients: James
          Lawler, 16, from Greenwich High School in Greenwich, Conn.
          won for his project entitled "Dynamics of Energy
          Transformations at the Molecular Interface." His research
          developed a new mathematical model using micro-level
          interactions that could be used as an effective analytical
          tool for physical chemists trying to predict the large-scale
          effects of complex molecular interactions. Nisha Nagarkatti,
          17, from Blacksburg High School in Blacksburg, Va. won for
          her project entitled "Fas-Fas Ligand Interactions Play an
          Important Role in Successful Therapy of Cancer." These
          students will travel to the Nobel Prize Ceremony in
          Stockholm, Sweden in December 1999.

     -    European Union Contest for Young Scientist award: Nicole
          Young, 17, and Summer Acevedo, 16, from Palm Bay High School
          in Melbourne, Fla. for their team project entitled "Leukemia
          Prostatic Carcinoma and Breast Carcinoma via DNA Content,
          Marker Proteins, Ploidy, and Development of a New Diagnostic
          Scale," that studies a new way to diagnose different types
          of cancers using a genetic test. The science contest will be
          held in Thessaloniki, Greece in September 1999.

     -    International Fair in South America award: John Keefner, 18,
          and Mark Hanhardt, 18, from Sturgis Brown High School in
          Sturgis, S.D. for their team project entitled "Zen and the
          Art of Diamagnetic Water Repulsion." Their research, which
          tried to determine if magnetic fields present around the
          superconductor would aid in the prevention of ice formation
          on the surface of the superconductor, could lead to the
          creation of the zero-gravity fields on earth. They will
          travel to Novo Hamburgo, Brazil for the fair in November
          1999.

     High-resolution photos of the Pinnacle Award recipients are
available from Intel's online pressroom at www.intel.com/pressroom.

--   Intel ISEF Best of Category Awards -- The following students
     received $5,000 awards for having the highest score in their
     project categories:

     -    Behavioral and Social Sciences - Derek Zanutto, 17, from
          Clovis West High School in Fresno, Calif. for his project
          entitled "Effects of Quinolinic Acid on Cognitive
          Processing."

     -    Biochemistry - Feng Zhang, 17, from Theodore Roosevelt High
          School in Des Moines, Iowa for his project entitled
          "Prevention of Retroviral Assembly by Expressing Mutant
          GFP-Capsid Fusion Genes."

     -    Botany presented by the Environmental Protection Agency -
          John Korman, 15, from Riverside High School, in Greer, S.C.
          for his project entitled "Effect of Black Walnut (Juglans
          nigra) Extracts on Tumor Induction in Potato Discs: Phase
          II."

     -    Chemistry presented by the Rohm and Haas Company - James
          Lawler, 16, from Greenwich High School in Greenwich, Conn.
          for his project entitled "Dynamics of Energy Transformations
          at the Molecular Interface."

     -    Computer Science - Gabor Bernath, 15, from Deutsche Schule
          Budapest, Budapest, Hungary for his project entitled
          "ScanGuru: 3-D Scanner."

     -    Earth and Space Sciences presented by Scientific American -
          Jay Michaels, 17, from Cocoa High School in Cocoa, Fla. for
          his project entitled "Using the WSR-88D to Detect
          Misocyclone Activity Over Central Florida."

     -    Engineering - Jonathan Condit, 18, from Poplar Junior Senior
          High School in Poplarville, Miss. for his project entitled
          "Design and Construction of an Inexpensive Automated Device
          to Determine Atrial Fibrillation in the General Population."

     -    Environmental Sciences presented the Environmental
          Protection Agency - Sirisha Kalicheti, 17, from Chantilly
          High School in Chantilly, Va. for her project entitled
          "Effect of Ion Concentrations in Gunston Cove (Potomac
          River) on Water Quality and Channel Catfish-I. punctatus,
          Tessellated Darter-E. olmstead, and Banded Killifish F.
          diaphanous."

     -    Gerontology presented by the AARP Andrus Foundation - Eric
          Stern, 18, from Great Neck South High School in Great Neck,
          N.Y. for his project entitled "Alzheimer's Disease and ICAB:
          Enzymatic Activity in AB-induced Cytotoxicity."

     -    Mathematics presented by the Panasonic Consumer Electronics
          Company - Matthew Ong, 18, from Cheyenne Central High
          School, Cheyenne, Wyo. for his project entitled "Searching
          for Difference Sets in Groups with Frobenius Image."

     -    Medicine and Health presented by Merck Research Laboratories
          - Kapualokelanipomaika'I Katherine Medeiros, 17, from The
          Kamehameha Secondary School in Honolulu, Hawaii for her
          project entitled "Papaya Seed: Source of an Anti-Cancer
          Agent?"

     -    Microbiology - Jeremy Farris, 17, from Houston County High
          School in Warner Robins, for his project entitled
          "Biological Control of Kudzu: Phase II."

     -    Physics - Han-Chih Chang, 17, from Chang-Hwa Senior High
          School in Chang-Hwa City, Chinese Taipei for his project
          entitled "Couette Flow of Ferrofluid with Added Particles in
          Magnetic Fields."

     -    Zoology - AmyLyn Woolley, 17, from Mountain View High School
          in Bend, Ore. for her project entitled "Irregular Color
          Morovis in Heptacarpus paludicola Shrimp: Three-Year Study."

     -    Team Project presented by Science News - Nicole Young, 17,
          and Summer Acevedo, 16, from Palm Bay High School in
          Melbourne, Fla. for their project entitled "Leukemia,
          Prostatic Carcinoma, and Breast Carcinoma via DNA Content,
          Marker Proteins, Ploidy, and Development of a New Diagnostic
          Scale."

--   Best Use of a PC Award - Each of the following recipients of
     Intel's Best Use of a PC award will receive a state-of-the-art
     Intel(R) Pentium(R) III processor-based computer system:

     -    Xing Zeng, 16, from Lower Canada College, Montreal, Canada
          for his project entitled "Hexosaminidase: A Locus-Specific
          Mutation Database and 3-D Modeling."

     -    Catherine Havasi, 18, from Franklin Regional Senior High
          School in Murrysville, Penn. for her project entitled
          "System of Feedforward Neural Networks for the Improved
          Despixelization of Enlarged Bitmap Images."

     -    Gabor Bernath, 15, from Deutsche Schule Budapest, Budapest,
          Hungary for his project entitled "ScanGuru 3D Scanner."

     -    Alexander Wissner-Gross, 17, from Great Neck South High
          School in Great Neck, N.Y. for his project entitled "Rapid
          Granular Fabrication of Nanocircuitry: Modeling a Novel
          Process for Macroscopic Control of Extended Nanoscopic
          Fullerene Structures."

-0- The Program

This year nearly 1,200 high school students in grades nine through twelve from 47 countries participated in the Intel ISEF, often called the "Olympics" of science fairs. Nearly half of the participants were females, and twenty-two percent of the finalists are in the patent process. The student research projects are an excellent example of "inquiry-based" learning which employs a hands-on approach to teaching science: students learn through research and experimentation, not just through lectures and books.

The ISEF has been coordinated for the past 50 years by Science Service, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the understanding and appreciation of science among people of all ages through publications and educational programs. In its third year as title sponsor, Intel has committed more than $3 million to developing and promoting this competition.

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