FYI and to also suggest to those in the education department (any silent listers?) to find ways/means of identifying the kids in our high schools who can be entered in such competitions or identified as being capable and then supported to this end.
 
Soffie
 
ps - just wanted to share the news about the talent and achievements in our high schools in Maryland.
 
 


 
Fifteen Students are Named Semifinalists 
in Intel Science Talent Search; Blair High
School has Highest Number in Nation
 
ROCKVILLE, MD-Thirteen students from Montgomery Blair High School--more
than any other school in the nation--plus one student each from Winston
Churchill High School and Walt Whitman High School were named
semifinalists in the 64th Intel Science Talent Search, one of the most
prestigious and rigorous science competitions for high school students in
the United States.
 
Three-fourths of the finalists from Maryland--15 out of 20--were from
Montgomery County Public Schools.
 
Last year, Blair also had 13 semifinalists, more than any school in the
nation except Stuyvesant High School in New York City. This year,
Stuyvesant had five semifinalists, and Thomas Jefferson High School for
Science Technology in Alexandria, Va., had five. Ward Melville High School
in East Sautucket, N.Y., was close behind Blair with 12 semifinalists.
 
The Montgomery County Public Schools semifinalists and project titles are: 
 
Montgomery Blair High School
 
á Ameer Abutaleb, A Nonlinear Analog Scattering VLSI Model for the Cochlea
á Peter Bullen, Effect of Grain Misorientation Texture on the Fractal
Character of Heated Calcite
á Patrick Detzner, The Effects of Powder Concentration and Wire Length on
the Attenuation of Microwave Powder Filters
á Jeffrey Dunn, Evaluation of Soil Moisture Predictions from GSWP Land
Surface Schemes
á Michael Forbes, Capacitated Vehicle Routing and the k-Delivery
n-Traveling Salesman Problem
á Abigail Fraeman, Modeling the Distribution of Comets Around the Star IRC
+10216
á Sherri Geng, Automated Seizure Detection Using Statistical Analysis of
EEG Time-Domain Signals
á Justin Kovac, The Effects of Warm Core Rings on Hurricane
Intensification in the Gulf of Mexico
á Tencia Lee, Probing Superstring/M-Theory with Quantum Mechanics
á Renee Park, The Effects of Atmospheric Turbulence on Simulated Starlight
in a Low-Pressure Telescope Environment
á Prasanna Vasudevan, Toward Early Detection of Alzheimer's Disease:
Developing a Method to Determine Activity in the Cerebral Cortex Using
Surface Analysis
á Samuel Wight, Improved Sequences for Code Division Multiple Access in
3-D Imaging LADAR
á Kenhui Yin, A Mathematical Model of AV Conduction Block in Time-Domain
 
Winston Churchill High School
 
á David Germain, Novel Electron Tomography and Computational Image
Analysis Methods Applied to Nanoscale Determination of Cell Architecture
 
Walt Whitman High School
 
á Scott Kominers, On Universality Properties of Positive-Definite Integral
Quadratic Forms
 
Each of the 300 semifinalists will receive $1,000 in recognition of their
scientific achievements. In addition, schools will receive $1,000 per
semifinalist to be used for the school's science and math programs. 
 
The Science Talent Search semifinalists, selected from 1,600 applicants,
represent 47 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. Students
were judged based on their individual research ability, scientific
originality, and creative thinking. Projects covered all disciplines of
science, including chemistry, physics, mathematics, engineering, social
science, and biology. 
 
The list will be trimmed to 40 finalists on January 26. The finalists will
attend the Science Talent Institute in Washington, D.C. in March to
participate in final judging and compete for college scholarships totaling
more than $500,000. The finalists will undergo a rigorous interview
process, with winners announced at a black-tie banquet on March 15.
 
For a complete list of semifinalists, visit www.sciserv.org/sts/64
sts/05semis.asp. 

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