2008 Intel Science Talent Search Winners Announced

Shivani Sud of North Carolina Awarded $100,000 Intel Scholarship
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
Honoring the next generation of American innovators, Intel
Corporation today announced the winners of the Intel Science Talent
Search. Shivani Sud, 17, of Durham, N.C., won the top award, a
$100,000 scholarship from the Intel Foundation. For her research
project, Sud developed a model that analyzed the specific "molecular
signatures" of tumors from patients with stage II colon cancer. She
then used this information to identify those at higher risk for tumor
recurrence and propose potentially effective drugs for treatment.

Also achieving top placement in the competition were:

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Second Place: Graham Van Schaik, 17, of Columbia, S.C., received a
$75,000 scholarship for his 2-year project studying
the effects of pyrethroids, a common type of
pesticide, on breast cancer and nerve cell
degeneration.
Third Place: Brian McCarthy, 18, of Hillsboro, Ore., received a
$50,000 scholarship for developing new types of solar
cells in order to provide a less expensive, renewable
form of energy.
Fourth Place: Katherine Banks, 17, of Brooklyn, N.Y., received a
$25,000 scholarship for her geometric analysis of the
number of lattice points inside polygons with nine
sides.
Fifth Place: Eric Delgado, 18, of Bayonne, N.J., received a $25,000
scholarship for discovering a new way to improve the
efficacy of antibiotics against multidrug-resistant
bacteria.
Sixth Place: David Rosengarten, 18, of Great Neck, N.Y., received a
$25,000 scholarship for his physics research showing
that Einstein's General Relativity Theory, in
principle, could modify rotation curves in the absence
of dark matter.
Seventh Place: Xiaomeng (Jessica) Zeng, 18, of Iowa City, Iowa,
received a $20,000 scholarship for her social
sciences project in which she found a positive
relation between government and private funding of
public libraries - as one increases, so does the
other.
Eighth Place: Philip Mocz, 18, of Mililani, Hawaii, received a
$20,000 scholarship for designing and using a
statistical algorithm to discover hidden patterns of
nearby stars.
Ninth Place: Alexis Mychajliw, 16, of Port Washington, N.Y.,
received a $20,000 scholarship for her project
studying the importance of both wetlands and meadows
as habitats for dragonflies and damselflies.
Tenth Place: Evan Mirts, 18, of Jefferson City, Mo., received a
$20,000 scholarship for using a scanning ion
conductance microscope (SICM) to observe the changes
in size and shape of spinach chloroplasts over a
period of time without destroying the sample.
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The remaining 30 finalists received $5,000 scholarships and a new
laptop featuring the Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo processor.

This year's Intel Science Talent Search finalists hailed from 19
states and represented 35 high schools throughout the United States.
Of the more than 1,600 high school seniors who entered the 2008 Intel
Science Talent Search, 300 were announced as semifinalists in January.
Of those, 40 were chosen as finalists and invited to Washington, D.C.,
to compete for the top 10 awards.

"These forty students show what American youth can do when they
are encouraged to study math and science," said Intel Chairman Craig
Barrett. "In this presidential year, their stories should send a
strong message that this critical foundation for innovation must be
supported."

The Science Talent Search is America's oldest and most prestigious
high school science competition. During the past 67 years, Science
Talent Search alumni have received more than 100 of the world's most
coveted science and math honors, including six Nobel Laureates, three
National Medal of Science winners, 10 MacArthur Foundation Fellows and
two Fields Medals.

Society for Science & the Public (formerly Science Service), a
nonprofit organization dedicated to public engagement in scientific
research and education, owns and has administered the Science Talent
Search since its inception in 1942.

"The Intel Science Talent Search 2008 finalists personify what
drives American ingenuity," said Elizabeth Marincola, president,
Society for Science & the Public. "Society for Science & the Public is
proud to join with Intel in congratulating Shivani Sud and all of this
year's finalists. We are inspired by their dedication to science, and
are encouraged by what the quality and depth of their work foretells
for our continued innovation and economic prosperity."

Intel added sponsorship of the Science Talent Search to its
extensive Education Initiative portfolio in 1998 to promote math and
science education, a growing need in the United States. During the
past 10 years, Intel has increased the total annual awards and
scholarships from $207,000 to $1.25 million. The company has also
reinvigorated the competition by adding awards for the schools and
introducing technology to the experience, including providing laptop
computers to all 40 finalists.

Intel has long been committed to promoting math and science
education. In the past decade alone, Intel has invested $1 billion to
improving education around the world. Today, Intel invests more than
$100 million annually to promote education and technological literacy
around the world.

To learn more about Intel's commitment to education around the
world, visit www.intel.com/education. To learn more about Society for
Science & the Public, visit www.societyforscience.org.

Intel, the world leader in silicon innovation, develops
technologies, products and initiatives to continually advance how
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Intel Corporation
Gail Dundas, 503-816-2382
gail.dundas@intel.com
or
for Intel Corporation
Kara Gaffney, 212-614-4568
kara.gaffney@bm.com
or
Society for Science & the Public
Rick Bates, 202-669-4288
rbates@societyforscience.org

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