“science” Tag

04/19/2008: Spring, Science, Hope, Math

I’ve been working from home today, enjoying the chance to watch the buds swell, the birds flirt and the daffodils bob in the breeze. Of course this is April in Oregon, so this was sometimes highlighted by a “sun break”...

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Tagged: education, math, schoolsofdistinction, science

03/12/2008: Announcing the 2008 Intel Science Talent Search winners!

ISTS comes to a close with the announcement of the three winners. Scroll down for audio and video podcasts of the competition. First place winner: Shivani Sud from Durham, NC. She developed a “50-gene model” which uses gene expression to...

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Tagged: education, highschool, intel, ists, science, sciencefair

03/10/2008: Students of Serious Science

Imagine a circular room where the farther you walk around the outer rim of its stone-tiled floor, the more enlightened you become. Or the less enlightened you feel. The place exists, but only for a week, once a year in...

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Tagged: education, highschool, intel, ists, research, science, sciencefair

03/09/2008: ISTS Day Two: Let the judging begin!

The kids arrived in drips and drabs. Some of them arrived Wednesday night; those were the kids from out west…Portland, and Hawaii being the farthest distance. We don’t remember their being a finalist from Hawaii in all the time Intel’s...

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Tagged: intel, ists, science, sciencetalentsearch, tedhoff

03/08/2008: ISTS Day One: Getting to know the finalists

Here is a short video from the first day of the Intel Science Talent Search, where you can meet some of the finalists and get a sense for what it’s like to be part of this select group. Every year...

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Tagged: education, highschool, intel, ists, science, sciencetalentsearch

02/29/2008: Intel Science Talent Search - Why I am so passionate about it!

This year marks Intel’s 10th anniversary as title sponsor of the Intel® Science Talent Search, the oldest and most prestigious science competition for high school students in the US. The goal of the competition is to highlight the very substantive...

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Tagged: education, highschool, intel, nobel, science, sts, tedhoff, wendyhawkins