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Old 05-22-2012, 06:02 PM
 
Location: Portland, Oregon
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Intel's 2012 International Science and Engineering Fair
3 out of 17 Best of Category winners isn't bad at all...

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Old 05-22-2012, 06:14 PM
 
Location: Lakewood OH
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That is so awesome! Thanks for the post Nell.

I was just thinking this morning I have to make a lunch date with my "Whippersnappers;" the kids of 20 and 30 I used to work with and train at my last job. Being around young minds helps keep one young.
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Old 05-22-2012, 06:59 PM
 
Location: Baker City, Oregon
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....and two of them are girls

Three Beaverton students earn awards at Intel International Science and Engineering Fair
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Old 05-22-2012, 09:16 PM
 
Location: Portland, Oregon
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Women rock the world and the cradle.

I wonder how these students were mentored into the bio-sciences... OHSU???
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Old 05-23-2012, 12:03 AM
 
Location: Baker City, Oregon
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I wonder how these students were mentored into the bio-sciences... OHSU???
I, too, would like to know more about the Oregon winners. Their family backgrounds, their teachers, how they were guided into science and mathematics, etc.

This is a very major competition, not just some local science fair. The prestige universities take notice and try to recruit these students.

It's unheard of for a small state like Oregon to have three winners. It's big news.

This would have made a great story for the Oregonian. Instead, they just had a brief mention.
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Old 05-23-2012, 07:34 AM
 
Location: the Beaver State
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This would have made a great story for the Oregonian. Instead, they just had a brief mention.
There is a reason the Oregonian's readership is dropping every year. Instead of responding by writing better articles they fire their reporters hire people who can barely spell and run "food reviews" that include Taco Bell and Sherry's or verbatim copy Wire stories.
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Old 05-23-2012, 04:18 PM
 
Location: Portlandish, OR
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a lot of the kids i've mentored that go to ISEF have connections with universities and research institutes (IE, mom or dad works there, or knows someone who does). A few just have a lot of drive and a unique project that it's obvious they've spent a lot of time on. In my experience, they have very dedicated science teachers who have been/are involved in research themselves and they train these kids to be able to not only do the science, but to be able to present it to their audience. You tend to see the same schools/teachers with winning kids year after year because of this.
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Old 05-23-2012, 05:13 PM
 
Location: Baker City, Oregon
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Interesting: One of the Intel winners, Naomi Shah, won a major award last year: Sunset High School teenager among top three winners in Google Science Fair | OregonLive.com

I might have been a little unfair to the Oregonian. They have had articles about these winners, not only the above, but also:
Jesuit High student Aishwarya Vardhana brings home national math and science award | OregonLive.com

Beaverton teenager talks science and technology with President Obama | OregonLive.com

And some more. If you use the Oregonian's search you will find them.
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Old 06-04-2013, 02:00 PM
 
Location: Baker City, Oregon
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Interesting: One of the Intel winners, Naomi Shah, won a major award last year: Sunset High School teenager among top three winners in Google Science Fair | OregonLive.com.....
Ms Shah back in the news:
Sunset High's Naomi Shah will study engineering at Stanford: Academic Achievers 2013 | OregonLive.com

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