NSHSS members among 2008 Intel Science Talent Search finalists
Finalists for the prestigious Intel Science Talent Search competition were recently announced, and among them are six NSHSS members. Ten winners will be announced in mid-March. NSHSS members annually have a strong showing in this competition, sometimes referred to as the “Junior Nobel Prize.” Shannon Babb, Claes Nobel Academic Scholarship Recipient, was awarded the top prize in 2006 from the Intel Science Talent Search for her research identifying water quality problems in the Spanish Fork River in her home state of Utah. As a result, she was invited to present her water research at the Stockholm International Youth Science Seminar (SIYSS) held during the Nobel Prize festivities. We congratulate Shannon and are pleased to share her account of the trip.
Congratulations to our NSHSS finalists and best of luck to them:
Sappho Zoe Gilbert, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology , McLean, Virginia
Surviving Correlates with Prognosis and Inhibits Drug-induced Apoptosis in Ewing Sarcoma Family Tumors
Lauren Rose Lisann, Half Hollow Hills High School West, Dix Hills, New York
RNAi Against Dyslexia Genes Disrupts Neuronal Migration
Philip Mocz, Mililani High School, Mililani, Hawaii
Dissecting the Nearby Universe: Monothetic Divisive Analysis Based on Voronoi Tessellations Reveals New Star Associations
Shravani Mikkilineni, Detroit Country Day School, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Continued Fractions and Orbits of a Linear Fractional Transformation
David Alex Rosengarten, John L. Miller-Great Neck North High School, Great Neck, New York
Rotation Curves in Five Dimensions
Graham Van Schaik, Spring Valley High School , Columbia, South Carolina
Pyrethroids and Their Potential to Promote Breast Cancer and Neurodegeneration