40 Finalists Converge on Washington, DC for Intel Science Talent Search

Washington, DC -- Forty of the nation's top young researchers will converge on Washington, DC beginning Thursday for the finals of the 71st annual Intel Science Talent Search, the nation's most prestigious pre-college science competition, Finalists will compete for $630,000 in awards, with the top winner receiving $100,000 from the Intel Foundation. The finalists include Palo Alto's Jin Pan of Henry M. Gunn High School (A Novel Protein Translation Kinetics Model Supports the Ribosomal Pause Theory); Cupertino's Saurabh Sharan of Bellarmine College Preparatory School (Parameter-free Graph-Based Nuclear Segmentation in Cellular Images Using Morphological Cues); and Saratoga's Alissa Yuan Zhang of Saratoga High School (Molecular Fingerprinting of Glucose with Raman and SERS for Noninvasive Diabetes Monitoring). The competition, run by Santa Clara-based chipmaker Intel and the Society for Science & the Public (SSP), will conclude next Tuesday with an awards gala at the National Building Museum.
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