Title:
Meet Some Top Students in the Intel Science Talent
Search
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The Intel Science Talent Search is the top science
competition for high school students in the United
States. The forty finalists were honored in
Washington in March. They met with scientists and
politicians. President Obama welcomed them to the
White House. These forty students were selected from
almost two thousand contestants nationwide. They had
to present original research to be judged by
professional scientists. The students showed their
research projects on large posters. The winners were
announced March fifteenth. Wendy Hawkins is
executive director of the Intel Foundation. She says
the forty finalists represented excellence across
many areas of science. Their projects are deep and
rich and insightful.Selena Li is from Fair Oaks,
California. She wanted to find a more effective
treatment for liver cancer. She began her research
four years ago. A scientist at the University of
California, Davis, taught her how to design and do
experimental work in the laboratory. She says: "I
researched a new approach to targeting liver cancer
by basically starving the liver cancer cells to
death, while leaving the normal cells unaffected.
And, to go one step further, I blocked a survival
pathway to make the treatment more effective."Ms. Li
placed fifth in the Intel Science Talent Search and
was awarded thirty thousand dollars. Scott Boisvert
lives near Phoenix, Arizona. He began using a
laboratory at the University of Arizona at the age
of fourteen. Over four years, he completed a project
studying a fungus linked to the decrease in
amphibians around the world. He was trying to find
out if different chemicals and substances in the
water could kill the fungus. He collected and tested
water samples across Arizona. He says: "My results
were able to identify a list of chemicals that were
significant in the growth and in the movement of the
fungus."He placed tenth in the Intel competition and
was awarded twenty thousand dollars. Evan O'Dorney
of Danville, California, won the top award of one
hundred thousand dollars in this year's Intel
Science Talent Search. For his mathematical project,
he compared two ways to estimate the square root of
an integer, a number with no fractional parts. Wendy
Hawkins at the Intel Foundation says these young
people represent the next generation of scientists
who will help shape America's future. For VOA
Special English, I'm Carolyn Presutti.
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