Young scientists earn--and spread--their wings. (Test Flight).A century after two brothers from Ohio launched the first powered aircraft, more than 1,200 high school students from 31 countries last week descended on Cleveland in a celebration of science and engineering--and competition for more than $3 million in scholarships and prizes. The youthful competitors in the 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 filled Cleveland's convention center with row upon row of custom-made gizmos and colorful posters detailing their research. They described their projects to about 1,000 judges and a greater number of curious visitors, and by week's end, more than 500 claimed awards. Many of the students also took in speeches and panel discussions by astronauts and Nobel laureates. For the first time in the competition's history, three young women took the top prizes--a $50,000 scholarship plus a high-performance computer. One winner, Elena Leah Glassman, 16, of Central Bucks High School West Central Bucks High School West is the oldest of the three high schools in Central Bucks School District. It is located in the town of Doylestown, Pennsylvania in Bucks County. It was constructed as the successor to Doylestown High School, which had burned down. in Doylestown, Pa., developed a method for reading electrical impulses in the brain that could help people with muscular disabilities operate computers. Lisa Doreen Glukhovsky, 17, of New Milford High School New Milford High School may refer to:
Anila Madiraju, 17, of Marianopolis College in Montreal earned her $50,000 scholarship by showing that it's possible to kill cancer cells by silencing proteins that inhibit cells from dying at appropriate times. Madiraju was also one of three students to be awarded a fully paid trip to this December's Nobel prize ceremonies in Stockholm. The other Nobel-bound competitors are Anant Ramesh Patel, 18, of Astronaut High School Astronaut High School is located in Brevard County, Florida 32796 in the city of Titusville, Florida, USA. It is part of the Brevard County School District. The school name comes from its location, near the Kennedy Space Center. The school was built in 1972. In Titusville, Fla., and Ethan James Street, 18, of Winston Churchill High School Winston Churchill High School may refer to a number of schools, all named after Winston Churchill, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and from 1951 to 1955. in Livonia, Mich. Andrew Gerard Ascione, 18, Aaron David Schulman, 17, and David Edwyn Bennett, 17, all of Broadneck Senior High School in Annapolis, Md., earned a trip to this September's European Union Contest for Young Scientists The European Union (EU) Contest for Young Scientists is a science fair, initiated by the European Commission. It is a part of the European Union Framework Programmes on Research, and is managed by the Directorate General for Research in the European Commission. in Budapest. There they will again present the software they've developed for identifying certain patterns in DNA. A team effort to explore microbes as fuel producers will send Wesley Ryan Fuller, 18, Blair Elisabeth Kowalinski, 16, and Kyle Anthony Marsland, 18, all from Hamilton High School Hamilton High School may refer to:
Seventeen students each garnered scholarship awards of $5,000 and a high-performance computer--plus $1,000 for their schools and $1,000 for their regional science fair--for projects judged to be best In their field. Winners included Glassman in computer science, Glukhovsky in earth and space sciences, Madiraju in medicine and health, Patel in gerontology, Street in mathematics, and Ascione, Schulman, and Bennett in the team category. The other best-in-category awards went to Sita Chandrika Palepu, 17, of James Madison High School Madison is a name for several high schools in North America, including:
SASA's curriculum is based on a concentration program. in Michigan in biochemistry; Brian Lee Fisher, 17, of Mandan High School Mandan High School is an American high school located in Mandan, North Dakota. It currently serves about 1,123 students and is a part of the Mandan Public Schools system. The official school colors are black and white and the athletic teams are known as the "The Braves". in North Dakota in botany; Denis Alexandrovich Malyshev, 16, of Moscow Chemical Lyceum in Russia in chemistry; Ryan Karnik, 16, of Oregon Episcopal School in Portland in engineering; Katherine Douglas Van Schaik, 16, of Spring valley High School in Columbia, S.C., in the environmental sciences; Jarryd Brandon Levine, 17, of Paul D. Schreiber High School Paul D. Schreiber High School is a high school located in Port Washington, New York, named after a former superintendent in the local board of education. It is more commonly referred to as Schreiber High School. in Port Washington, N.Y., in microbiology; Mairead Mary McCloskey, 17, of Loreto College in Coleraine, Ireland, in physics; and Simeon McMillan, 17, of Uniondale High School in New York in zoology. Intel of Santa Clara, Calif., has been the main sponsor of the fair since 1997. Science Service of Washington, D.C., which publishes Science News, has administered the fair since its inception in 1950. |
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