8 Indian-Americans Among 40 Intel Science Talent Search Finalists

Friday, 24 January 2014, 00:26 IST
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Washington: Eight Indian-American students are among the 40 finalists in the prestigious Intel Science Talent Search competition, America's premier national science research competition for high school seniors.

Finalists come from 33 schools in 14 states and represent the country's best and brightest young scientists. The Intel Science Talent Search encourages students to tackle challenging scientific questions and develop skills to help solve some of the world's greatest challenges.

Finalists will attend the Intel Science Talent Institute from March 6-12 in Washington, DC to compete for $ 630,000 in awards, including a grand prize of $ 100,000 that will be awarded to the first-place winner.

The Indian finalists, and their respective projects, are: Vishnu Shankar - Monta Vista High School in Cupertino, California - "3D Structure of Human DP Prostaglandin G-protein Coupled Receptor Bound to Selective Antagonists from GEnSeMBLE Predictions".

Sreyas Misra - The Harker School in San Jose, California - "Design and Characterisation of a Novel Single-headed and Hand-held PET Camera Using 511 keV Photon Collimation via Compton Scatter".
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Source: IANS
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