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2005 Intel Science Talent Search
Winners
First Place: $100,000 scholarship, David Lawrence
Vigliarolo Bauer, 17, Hunter College High School, Bronx, N.Y., for
developing a sensor for rapidly detecting individual exposure to toxic
biochemical agents, such as nerve gas.
Second Place: $75,000 scholarship, Timothy Frank
Credo, 17, Mathematics and Science Academy, Highland Park, Illinois, for
an engineering project that has applications in particle physics research,
he developed a more precise method to measure the velocity that particles
travel in an accelerator.
Third Place: $50,000 scholarship, Kelley Harris, 17,
C. K. McClatchy High School, Sacramento, California, fpr jer biochemistry
research into the molecular structure of Z-DNA binding proteins. Her
research could eventually contribute to the development of a treatment for
smallpox.
Fourth Place: $25,000 scholarship, Robert Thomas
Cordwell, 17, Manzano High School, Albuquerque, New Mexico, for his
mathematics project, “Some Results on Inclusive and Exclusive
Partitions of Complete Graphs.”
Fifth Place: $25,000 scholarship, Ryan Marques
Harrison, 17, Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, for
his bioinformatics and genomics project, “A Novel Approach to
Modeling pH-sensitive Regions Within Proteins.”
Sixth Place: $25,000 scholarship, Lyra Creamer Haas,
17, of Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, Aurora, Illinois, for her
behavioral and social sciences project, “Using Textiles to Date
Sites in the Norte Chico, Peru.”
Seventh Place: $20,000 scholarship, Justin Alexander
Kovac, 17, of Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland, for
his earth and planetary science project, “The Effects of Warm Core
Rings on Hurricane Intensification in the Gulf of Mexico.”
Eighth Place: $20,000 scholarship, Karl James Plank,
17, of Squalicum High School, Bellingham, Washington, for his chemistry
project, “Toward Self-Assembling Nanocircuitry Using Liquid Crystal
Solvents.”
Ninth Place: $20,000 scholarship, James Andrew Cahill,
18, of Flagstaff High School, Flagstaff, Arizona, for his earth and
planetary science project, “Assessment of Equinoctial and Cross
Quarter Alignments of Anasazi Origin in the Lomaki Pueblo of the Wupatki
National Monument.”
Tenth Place: $20,000 scholarship, Po-Ling Loh, 18,
James Madison Memorial High School, Madison, Wisconsin, for mathematics
project, “Closure Properties of D2p in Finite
Groupings.”
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