Most Promising Young American Scientists Compete for $100,000 in Intel Science Talent Search 2010
Finalists Present Research to Public, Media; Top Winners Revealed at Awards Gala
Intel Corporation:
WHEN: For Public Day: Sunday, March 14, 1-4 p.m. EDT, National Academy of Sciences -- Media are invited to meet with finalists as they display their research. For Awards Gala: Tuesday, March 16, 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: Great Hall of the National Academy of Sciences 2101 Constitution Avenue, 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 2010, WHAT: a program of Society for Science & the Public (SSP), will be in Washington, D.C. from March 11-16, 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 14 at the National Academy of Sciences. Finalists will be available for interviews and photos with their projects. The top 10 winners will be announced at the awards ceremony on March 16. The grand prize winner receives $100,000. Finalists will be available for interviews immediately after top honors are announced by Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini. The awards gala concludes the 2010 season of the nation's oldest and most prestigious pre-college science competition. The young innovators chosen to participate in the Science Talent Search - now in its 69th 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 and the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. WHO: All 40 Intel Science Talent Search 2010 finalists. Wendy Hawkins, executive director of the Intel Foundation; Shelly Esque, vice president of Corporate Affairs at Intel; and Elizabeth Marincola, president of SSP will also be available for comment. Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini and Thomas Friedman, New York Times columnist and Pulitzer Prize winning author, will speak at the awards gala. The Intel Science Talent Search 2010 online press kit is GENERAL INFO: available at: http://www.intel.com/pressroom/kits/events/sts2010/index.htm. CONTACT: To RSVP for either event or to schedule interviews, please contact Heather MacKinnon, 917-378-9951, heather.mackinnon@bm.com
Finalists by state:
Nick Christensen AL Erika DeBenedictis NM Namrata Anand CA Levent Alpoge NY Otana Jakpor CA Eric Brooks NY David Liu CA Yuval Calev NY Raman Nelakanti CA Rachel Cawkwell NY Sarine Shahmirian CA Michael Comuniello NY Jane Suh CA Ruoyi Jiang NY Lynnelle Ye CA Paul Masih Das NY Angela Yeung CA Joshua Pfeffer NY Jason Gandelman CT Alan Sage NY Arjun Puranik IL Kevin Xu NY Kate Rudolph IL Lori Ying NY Frieda Fein IN James Fenska OK Sunanda Sharma MA Yale Fan OR Yifan Li MD Peter Hu TX John Capodilupo MI Elisa Lin TX Lanair Lett NC Katheryn Shi TX Benjamen Sun ND Temple Douglas VA Akhil Mathew NJ Kevin Ellis WA Linda Zhou NJ Alice Zhao WI
Source: Intel Corporation
Released Mar 11, 2010 • 10:00 AM EST