Washington, DC -- The top 40 finalists in the annual Intel Science Talent Search arrived in Washington, DC on Thursday to begin competing for more than $630,000 in awards from the Santa Clara-based Intel Foundation. All research projects will be on display Sunday at the National Academy of Sciences, with the top 10 winners announced at a ceremony on Tuesday. The grand prize winner receives $100,000. The pre-college science competition, now in its 69th year, has produced winners of the Nobel Prize, the Fields Medal, the National Medal of Science and the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. Some of this year's projects include measuring indoor air pollution caused by paraffin and soy candles, building a new, clearer hearing assistance device that can be replicated for cell phones and radios and assessing inequalities in how high schools compete in national science competitions.
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