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December 5, 2005

Siemens Westinghouse Competition Winners

Siemens Westinghouse Competition press release:

Michael Viscardi, a senior who is home schooled, won the $100,000 Grand Prize scholarship in the individual category for mathematics research with real-world engineering implications. Anne Lee, a senior at Phoenix Country Day School in Paradise Valley, Arizona, and Albert Shieh, a junior at Chaparral High School in Scottsdale, Arizona, won the $100,000 prize in the team category, which they will share equally, for developing new software that more accurately analyzes genetic data.

Articles on the competition (I like the local focus of the headlines):

America’s Budding Young Scientists

(podcast on the competition including an interview with Anne Lee).

2 Indian-Americans win Westinghouse Competition (from an Indian web site - Rediff)
California teen wins science competition
Valley teens win $100,000 in U.S. science competition (Arizona)
M.L. King student wins national honor for microbiology work

Xue Feng, a senior at M.L. King Magnet school in Nashville, won sixth-place in the national Siemens Westinghouse Competition in Math Science and Technology this weekend. The competition started in 1998 to recognize America’s best and brightest students.

Homeschooler wins science competition

Siemens Westinghouse Competition in Math, Science and Technology web site. Their web site, and the articles above, provide interesting details on the highly advanced work of the participating high school students.

The Siemens Foundation provides more than $2 million in college scholarships and awards each year for talented high school students in the United States.

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