Girls Sweep Top Honors at Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology
Posted on December 4, 2007 Comments (1)
Girls Make History by Sweeping Top Honors at a Science Contest
Isha Himani Jain, 16, a senior at Freedom High School in Bethlehem, Pa., placed first in the individual category for her studies of bone growth in zebra fish, whose tail fins grow in spurts, similar to the way children’s bones do. She will get a $100,000 scholarship.
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Three-quarters of the finalists have a parent who is a scientist. The parents of Alicia Darnell, who won second place, are medical researchers at Rockefeller University, and her maternal grandparents were scientists, too. Isha Himani Jain, who took home the top individual prize, published her first research paper with her father, a professor at Lehigh University, when she was 10 or 11; her mother is a doctor.
Read about projects by the finalists.
Related: Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology – Student Algae Bio-fuel Project – Siemens Westinghouse Competition Winners 2005 – Intel International Science and Engineering Fair 2007 – Intel International Science and Engineering Fair Awards (2006)
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May 17th, 2009 @ 10:02 pm
“Tara was able to prove that because the two have such ecologically intimate relationships, they also have an evolutionary relationship. That is to say, if one species evolves, the other will follow…”