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Intel Science Talent Search’s top 40
By Laura Sanders
Forty young, limber brains have made
it to the final phase of the nation’s oldest science competition for high school
seniors, the Intel Science Talent Search.
In March, the finalists will travel to
Washington, D.C., where they will
spend a week presenting their original
research to national leaders, top scientists and the public. Intel and Society for
Science & the Public will announce the
top award winner, who will take home
$100,000, on March 15 during a black-tie gala held at the National Building
Museum. Finalists will vie for a total of
$630,000 in awards.
This year’s competitors hail from 15
states. For the first time in the history
of the event, more of them come from
California than New York.
ArizonA Scott Boisvert, Chandler,
Basha High School
CAliforniA Amol Aggarwal, Saratoga,
Saratoga High School; Xiaoyu Cao,
San Diego, Torrey Pines High School;
Bonnie Lei, Walnut, Walnut High School;
Jonathan Li, Laguna Niguel, St. Margaret’s
Episcopal School; Selena Li, Fair Oaks,
Mira Loma High School; Andrew Liu, Palo
Alto, Henry M. Gunn Senior High School;
Rohan Mahajan, Cupertino, The Harker
School; Evan O’Dorney, Danville,Venture
School; Nikhil Parthasarathy, Mountain
View, The Harker School; David Tang-
Quan, Rancho Palos Verdes, Palos Verdes
Peninsula High School; Chelsea Voss,
Santa Clara, Cupertino High School
ConneCtiCut Jenny Liu, Orange, Amity
Regional High School; Shubhro Saha,
Avon, Choate Rosemary Hall
floridA Eta Atolia, Tallahassee,
Rickards High School; Elaine Zhou, Winter
Park, Lake Highland Preparatory School
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illinois Krystle Leung, Naperville,
Naperville Central High School
MAssAChusetts Sung Won Cho,
Lexington, Groton School
MiChigAn Shubhangi Arora, Novi, Novi
High School
MinnesotA Prithwis Mukhopadhyay,
Woodbury, Woodbury High School
north CArolinA Si-Yi Lee, Charlotte,
North Carolina School of Science and
Mathematics; Matthew Miller, Elon,
Western Alamance High School
nebrAskA Emily Chen, Omaha, Brownell-Talbot School
new Jersey Alison Bick, Short Hills,
Millburn High School; Joshua Bocarsly,
Plainsboro, The Lawrenceville School;
Wenyu Cao, Belle Mead, Phillips Academy
new york Jonathan Aaron Goldman,
Plainview, Plainview-Old Bethpage John F.
Kennedy High School; Jan Gong, Garden
City, Garden City High School; Michelle
Hackman, Great Neck, John L. Miller
Great Neck North High School; Bryan
He, Williamsville, Williamsville East High
School; Matthew Lam, Old Westbury,
Jericho High School; Grace Phillips,
Larchmont, Mamaroneck High School;
Alydaar Rangwala, Loudonville, The
Albany Academies
oregon Laurie Rumker, Portland,
Oregon Episcopal School; Yushi Wang,
Portland, Sunset High School
PennsylvAniA Benjamin Clark,
Lancaster, Penn Manor High School;
Keenan Monks, Hazleton, Hazleton Area
High School
texAs Madeleine Ball, Dallas, Ursuline
Academy of Dallas; Rounok Joardar,
Plano, Plano West Senior High School;
Sunil Pai, Houston, The Kinkaid School
Finalists are listed by state, name, hometown and high school.
