America's Top 40 Young Innovators Compete for $100,000 Grand Prize at the Intel Science Talent Search 2011
Intel:
WHEN: For Public Day:
Sunday, March 13, 1-4 p.m. EDT, National Geographic Society
-- Media are invited to meet with finalists as they display,
describe and answer questions about their award-winning research.
For Awards Gala:
Tuesday, March 15, 7-9:30 p.m. EDT, National Building Museum
-- Media are invited to attend the ceremony or conduct phone
interviews with the winners (after 9:30 p.m.).
WHERE: For Public Day:
National Geographic Society
1145 17th St NW
Washington, D.C.
For Awards Gala:
National Building Museum
401 F Street, NW
Washington, D.C.
The top 40 finalists in the Intel Science Talent Search 2011, a
WHAT: program of Society for Science & the Public (SSP), will be in
Washington, D.C. from March 10-15, to compete for more than
$630,000 in awards from the Intel Foundation.
All research projects will be on display for media and the public
on March 13 at the National Geographic Society. Finalists will be
available for interviews and photos with their projects.
The top 10 winners will be announced at the awards ceremony on
March 15. The top award winner receives $100,000. Finalists will
be available for interviews immediately after top awards are
presented by Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini and SSP
President Elizabeth Marincola.
The awards gala concludes the 2011 season of the nation's most
prestigious pre-college science competition, which invites
America's future leaders to satisfy their endless curiosity by
exploring how the world works and develop solutions for global
challenges. The young innovators chosen to participate in the
Science Talent Search - now in its 70th year - have gone on to
receive some of the world's most prestigious honors, including
the Nobel Prize, the Fields Medal, the National Medal of Science,
the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and even an Academy Award.
All 40 Intel Science Talent Search 2011 finalists. Their research
projects cover a variety of diverse topics, including using
simulated human emotions to change the way people interact with
WHO: robots; a math equation that may benefit national security and
cryptology; understanding sugar addictions to help develop
therapies for obese and diabetic patients; mobile phone
disconnect anxiety in teenagers; and how certain food additives
can play a role in causing cancer.
Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini and Society for Science &
the Public President Elizabeth Marincola will speak at the awards
gala. Wendy Hawkins, Executive Director of the Intel Foundation
will be available for comment.
GENERAL INFO: To get the latest Intel Science Talent Search news, visit
www.intel.com/newsroom/education.
CONTACT INFO: To RSVP for either event or to schedule interviews, please
contact
Allison Kubota, 646-525-6718, allison.kubota@bm.com.
Finalists by state: Scott Boisvert AZ Prithwis Mukhopadhyay MN Chelsea Voss CA Si-Yi Lee NC Andrew Liu CA Matthew Miller NC David Tang-Quan CA Emily Chen NE Selena Li CA Joshua Bocarsly NJ Xiaoyu Cao CA Alison Bick NJ Rohan Mahajan CA Alydaar Rangwala NY Nikhil Parthasarathy CA Bryan He NY Jonathan Li CA Jan Gong NY Evan O'Dorney CA Michelle Hackman NY Amol Aggarwal CA Matthew Lam NY Bonnie Lei CA Grace Phillips NY Shubhro Saha CT Jonathan Goldman NY Jenny Liu CT Laurie Rumker OR Elaine Zhou FL Yushi Wang OR Eta Atolia FL Keenan Monks PA Krystle Leung IL Benjamin Clark PA Wenyu Cao MA Madeleine Ball TX Sung Won Cho MA Sunil Pai TX Shubhangi Arora MI Rounok Joardar TX
Source: Intel
Released Mar 9, 2011 • 10:00 AM EST