March 14th, 2007 at 10:05 am
Rich Galen at Townhall has a nice report on the Intel Science Talent Search in Washington, D.C. The search narrowed a field of 1700 high schools to 40 finalists. Rich highlights a high school student who is using probability to explain a phenomena in solution thermodynamics — a topic I didn’t get exposed to until my sophomore year as a Chemical Engineering major. Bravo.
Every one of the kids I talked to was poised, cheerful, articulate and … regular. Not one had the 2007 equivalent of a pocket protector.Going through the bios of the 40 finalists, they play sports on their schools’ teams. They play instruments in their schools’ bands. They act in plays, they sing in choruses, they edit their schools’ papers and do all the things that other kids do.
But they do things that other kids don’t.
The winner, Mary Masterman of Oklahoma City, built a home spectrograph for $300. I also found the ninth place winner particularly intriguing; the Brazil Nut effect has a lot to do with air flow in the shaken container.
Check out the winners and let me know your favorite.
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