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Starting April 3, two new programs will take the place ofScience Report:
-- On Wednesdays, Health Report will describe new researchand information about staying healthy and treating disease.
-- On Thursdays, Education Report will explore educationalissues and news about teaching and learning in the United States andother countries.
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This is the VOA Special English Science Report.
A teen-age boy from the state of Colorado has won the top prizein the Intel Science Talent Search. The competition is the oldestprogram in the United States that honors the science projects ofhigh school students. The Intel Science Talent Search is sixty-oneyears old this year.
The winners receive a new computer and money for a collegeeducation. More than one-thousand-five-hundred students enteredprojects for the competition this year. The students came fromthirty-one states, the District of Columbia and Guam. Forty-eightper cent were female. Fifty-two percent were male. Their researchprojects involved nearly every area of science, including chemistry,physics, mathematics, engineering, social science and medicine.
Forty students were invited to Washington D.C. for the finaljudging. Ten of the top winners were born outside the United States.Five were born in China. Two were born in India. The others wereborn in Estonia, Belarus and Israel. Well-known scientists judgedthem on their research abilities and creative thinking. They alsoquestioned the students about scientific problems before deciding onthe top ten winners.
The top winner was eighteen-year-old Ryan Patterson of GrandJunction, Colorado. He received one-hundred-thousand dollars for hiscollege education. He invented a device that changes American SignLanguage into written words on a small screen. The invention has wonprizes in other science contests. Ryan says he wants to continuedeveloping electronic devices that can improve peoples' lives.
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The second place winner wasseventeen-year-old Jacob Licht (pronounced likt) of West Hartford,Connecticut. He received seventy-five-thousand dollars for amathematics project that studied the Rainbow Ramsey Theory. Itinvolves the idea that order must exist within disorder.
The third place winner was seventeen-year-old Emily Riehl(pronounced reel) of Bloomington, Illinois. She receivedfifty-thousand dollars. Her mathematics project studied an algebraicstructure called the Coxeter group.
Intel official Craig Barrett praised all the students as futurescientific leaders. He said they will play an important part incuring diseases, protecting the environment and developing newcomputer technologies.
This VOA Special English Science Report was written by NancySteinbach.