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2006 Intel Science Talent Search
Winners
First Place: $100,000 scholarship, Shannon Lisa Babb,
18, of Highland, Utah, for an environmental science project identifying
the human impact to water quality along the Spanish Fork River and its
tributaries.
Second Place: $75,000 scholarship, Yi Sun, 17, of San
Jose, California, for a project in mathematics that involves the winding
number of a function, which, in the case of the plane, is the number of
times it encircles the origin.
Third Place: $50,000 scholarship, Yuan Zhang, 17, of
Derwood, Maryland for a project in medicine and health. She studied the
molecular mechanisms behind atherosclerosis, or arterial plaque buildup, a
disease in which lipid-laden macrophages - fat-filled white blood cells -
build up in the vessel wall.
Fourth Place: $25,000 scholarship, Nicholas Michael
Wage, 17, of Appleton, Wisconsin for a project in mathematics in which he
studied generalized Paley graphs.
Fifth Place: $25,000 scholarship, Jerrold Alexander
Lieblich, 17, of East Setauket, New York, for a cognitive psychology study
built around an audio-visual illusion called the McGurk effect.
Sixth Place: $25,000 scholarship, David Bruce Kelley,
18, of Highland, New York, for a particle physics research project
concerning low-energy neutrino detection in liquid neon. David's project
explored the brief delay, called trapping time, that electrons experience
when they move through the liquid-vapor boundary in cryogenic liquids.
Seventh Place: $20,000 scholarship, Myers Abraham
Davis, 17, of Baltimore, Maryland for a computer sciences project that
addressed collision detection for physical simulation applications in
high-performance graphics processing units (GPUs).
Eighth Place: $20,000 scholarship, Adam Ross Solomon,
16, of Bellmore, New York, for a space science project on brown dwarfs -
one of the busiest new fields in astronomy. Adam's project established a
new methodology for determining the age and mass of brown dwarfs.
Ninth Place: $20,000 scholarship, Evan Scott Gawlik,
17, of Pinehurst, North Carolina, for a project involving the noble gases
krypton and argon and the organo-compounds they make with fluorine and
chlorine. Evan used a quantum mechanics approach and computational
programs to project the existence and stability of six potentially new
halogen-containing organo-noble gas compounds.
Tenth Place: $20,000 scholarship, Kimberly Megan
Scott, 17, of Wellesley, Massachusetts, for a project that combined
algebra and logic in which she analyzed Ehrenfeucht-Fraisse games, named
after the two logicians on whose work these games are based.
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