Top prospects for tomorrow's labs: national competition yields a dream team of young scientific talent.Twenty young women and 20 young men last week aced an early challenge in their scientific careers. They entered the high school science playoffs--the finals of the annual 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 . This year marks the first time in the competition's 66-year history that female finalists have achieved numerical parity with male ones. Young women accounted for nearly 52 percent of this year's 1,705 entrants, each of whom submitted a research project in science, math, or engineering. Judges selected finalists on the basis of their promise as future researchers and on their projects' originality and scientific merit. In March, the finalists will assemble in Washington, D.C., to compete for top honors and more than half a million dollars in scholarship prizes. "This competition inspires talented high school students to pursue serious research and submits their work to review that is as rigorous as any they will face as professional scientists," says Elizabeth Marincola, publisher of Science News and president of Science Service. Science Service, which runs the competition, and the competition's sponsor, Intel Corp. of Santa Clara, Calif., announced the finalists on Jan. 31. They are: Alabama: Marshall Bradley Everett, Shoals Christian School, Florence. California: Alexandra Maria Courtis, Davis Senior H.S., Davis; Sean Matthew Wahl, Troy H.S., Fullerton; Carol Yoon Joo Suh, Palos Verdes Peninsula H.S., Rolling Hills Estates. Colorado: Meredith Ann MacGregor, Fairview H.S., Boulder. Connecticut: Sophie Cai, Ridgefield H.S., Ridgefield. Illinois: Nora Xu, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy The Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, or IMSA, is a three-year residential public high school located in Aurora, Illinois, with an enrollment of approximately 640 students. , Aurora. Kentucky: Yin Yin Wu, Atherton H.S., Louisville. Maryland: Emma K. Call, Baltimore Polytechnic Institute Baltimore Polytechnic Institute (BPI), but known most commonly as Poly, is a magnet high school in Baltimore, Maryland. Though established as an all male trade school Poly now serves as a coeducational college preparatory institution that emphasizes , Baltimore; Brian Robert Lawrence and Richard Matthew McCutchen, Montgomery Blair H.S., Silver Spring. Michigan: Sohan Venkat Mikkilineni, Detroit Country Day School Detroit Country Day School (also known as DCDS, DCD, or Country Day) is a private, secular school located in Beverly Hills, Michigan, northwest of Detroit. DCDS was founded in Detroit in 1914, inspired by the Country Day School movement. , Beverly Hills; Temple Mu He and Siyuan Liu, Troy H.S., Troy. New Hampshire: Gongmyung Lee, Phillips Exeter Academy Phillips Exeter Academy (ĕk`sətər), at Exeter, N.H.; coeducational; chartered 1781, opened 1783 by John Phillips. It has been an influential preparatory school and has a notable school library. Heavily endowed (1931) by Edward S. , Exeter. New Jersey: Daniel Adam Handlin, High Technology H.S., Lincroft; Megan Marie Blewett, Madison H.S., Madison; Neha Anil Deshpande, South Brunswick H.S., Monmouth Junction. New York: Daniel Scott Katz, Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway The Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway, or HAFTR, is a centrist Modern Orthodox Jewish day school on the South Shore of Long Island in New York serving students in preschool through twelfth grade. , Cedarhurst; Rebecca Lynn Kaufman, Croton-Harmon H.S., Croton-on-Hudson; Rui Wang, Fairport H.S., Fairport; Abhinav Rohatgi, Garden City H.S., Garden City; Sarah Dana Bayefsky-Anand, The Abraham Joshua Heschel School The Abraham Joshua Heschel School (AJHS) is a pluralistic K-12 Jewish day school in New York City. Its two central values, pluralism and egalitarianism, create a tightly-knit, yet diverse community. , New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. ; Kathryn Blair Friedman, The Chapin School, New York City; Kaitlin Duncan, Plainedge H.S., North Massapequa; Catherine Schlingheyde, Oyster Bay H.S., Oyster Bay; Hermain Suhail Khan, Staten Island Technical H.S., Staten Island; Oren Brecher, Suffern H.S., Suffern; Jimmy Hom, Syosset H.S., Syosset; Natalie Avella Cameron, Walter Tresper Clarke H.S., Westbury. North Carolina: John Vincent Pardon, Durham Academy, Durham. North Dakota: Gregory Drew Brockman, Red River H.S., Grand Forks. Ohio: Erin Marie Schikowski, Hathaway Brown School Hathaway Brown is an all-girls private School in Shaker Heights, Ohio, founded in 1876. It is also Ohio's oldest college preparatory school for girls. HB contains pre-school, primary school, middle school, and high school. The student-faculty ratio is 8:1. , Shaker Heights. Oklahoma: Mary Masterman, westmoore H.S., Oklahoma City. Oregon: Dmitry Vaintrob, South Eugene H.S., Eugene. Rhode Island: Shu Wan, Classical H.S., Providence. Texas: Yieu Chyan, Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. Please help Wikipedia by adding references. See the for details. This article has been tagged since September 2007. For other uses, see Tams (disambiguation). , Denton; Gabriel Joel Mendoza, Americas H.S., El Paso. Virginia: Sarah Elizabeth Marzen, Thomas Jefferson H.S. for Science and Technology, Alexandria. West Virginia: Kelydra Elizabeth Welcker, Parkersburg South H.S., Parkersburg. |
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