NSHSS members among 2008 Intel Science Talent Search winners!
Winners of the prestigious Intel Science Talent Search competition were recently announced. We are very excited that three of the six NSHSS members selected as finalists have placed in the top ten, winning scholarships worth $120,000.
NSHSS Winners include
Graham Van Schaik, Spring Valley High School , Columbia, South Carolina
Pyrethroids and Their Potential to Promote Breast Cancer and Neurodegeneration
2nd place - winner of $75,000 scholarship
David Alex Rosengarten, John L. Miller-Great Neck North High School, Great Neck, New York
Rotation Curves in Five Dimensions
6th place - $25,000 scholarship
Philip Mocz, Mililani High School, Mililani, Hawaii
Dissecting the Nearby Universe: Monothetic Divisive Analysis Based on Voronoi Tessellations Reveals New Star Associations
8th place - $20,000
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 winners! Read more about the winners and the contest on the Science Talent Search website.