[ti:Meet Some Top Students in the Intel Science Talent Search]
[ar:Christopher Cruise]
[al:Education Report]
[by:www.21voa.com]
[00:00.00]This is the VOA Special English
[00:03.08]Education Report.
[00:04.88]The Intel Science Talent Search
[00:08.06]is the top science competition
[00:10.48]for high school students
[00:12.41]in the United States.
[00:13.78]The forty finalists were honored
[00:17.26]in Washington last week.
[00:19.19]They met with scientists
[00:21.62]and politicians.
[00:23.36]President Obama welcomed them
[00:26.35]to the White House.
[00:27.53]These forty students were selected
[00:31.70]from almost two thousand
[00:33.62]contestants nationwide.
[00:35.61]They had to present
[00:38.48]original research to be judged
[00:41.02]by professional scientists.
[00:43.51]The students showed
[00:45.50]their research projects
[00:47.18]on large posters.
[00:48.86]The winners were announced
[00:51.23]March fifteenth.
[00:52.66]Wendy Hawkins is executive director
[00:56.76]of the Intel Foundation.
[00:58.38]She says the forty finalists
[01:01.37]represented excellence
[01:03.29]across many areas of science.
[01:05.60]WENDY HAWKINS: "These students
[01:07.34]bring work that is ready
[01:09.64]for publication and in many cases
[01:10.95]has already been published
[01:12.31]in pretty much any branch of science
[01:14.55]that you can think of: physics,
[01:16.17]electrical engineering.
[01:17.23]And the projects are deep
[01:18.78]and rich and insightful."
[01:21.58]Selena Li is from Fair Oaks,
[01:26.23]California.
[01:27.10]She wanted to find a more
[01:29.65]effective treatment for liver cancer.
[01:32.08]She began her research four years ago.
[01:35.93]A scientist at the University
[01:38.86]of California, Davis,
[01:40.66]taught her how to design
[01:42.84]and do experimental work
[01:45.58]in the laboratory.
[01:47.57]SELINA LI: "I researched a new approach
[01:49.43]to targeting liver cancer
[01:50.86]by basically starving the liver
[01:53.47]cancer cells to death,while leaving
[01:55.09]the normal cells unaffected.
[01:56.46]And, to go one step further,
[01:58.76]I blocked a survival pathway
[02:00.13]to make the treatment more effective."
[02:02.06]Ms. Li placed fifth
[02:04.36]in the Intel Science Talent Search
[02:06.85]and was awarded thirty thousand dollars.
[02:09.65]Scott Boisvert lives
[02:13.26]near Phoenix, Arizona.
[02:14.56]He began using a laboratory
[02:17.36]at the University of Arizona
[02:19.48]at the age of fourteen.
[02:21.84]Over four years, he completed
[02:25.45]a project studying a fungus
[02:28.00]linked to the decrease in amphibians
[02:31.16]around the world.
[02:32.85]He was trying to find out
[02:35.65]if different chemicals and substances
[02:38.39]in the water could kill the fungus.
[02:41.12]He collected and tested
[02:43.74]water samples across Arizona.
[02:46.41]SCOTT BOISVERT: "My results were
[02:47.59]able to identify a list of chemicals
[02:50.02]that were significant in the growth
[02:51.88]and in the movement of the fungus."
[02:53.25]He placed tenth in the Intel competition
[02:56.42]and was awarded twenty thousand dollars.
[02:59.53]Evan O'Dorney of Danville, California,
[03:03.58]won the top award of one hundred
[03:07.12]thousand dollars in this year's
[03:09.43]Intel Science Talent Search.
[03:11.54]For his mathematical project,
[03:14.46]he compared two ways to estimate
[03:17.95]the square root of an integer,
[03:20.00]a number with no fractional parts.
[03:22.86]Wendy Hawkins at the Intel Foundation
[03:26.47]says these young people represent
[03:29.33]the next generation of scientists
[03:31.51]who will help shape America's future.
[03:34.93]And that's the VOA Special English
[03:38.60]Education Report.
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[03:57.07]I'm Christopher Cruise.
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