2006 Intel Science Talent Search (STS) Winners Announced

California student, Yi Sun of The Harker School, won 2nd place and received a $75,000 scholarship.

Intel Corporation and Science Service awarded the top 10 college scholarship awards for the Intel Science Talent Search at a black-tie banquet in Washington, D.C.

Shannon Lisa Babb of Utah received first place award and $100,000 college scholarship.  Lisa's winning project is an environmental science project identifying water quality problems along the Spanish Fork River and its tributaries.

Yi Sun of California finished second and received a $75,000 college scholarship award.  His mathematics project involves the winding number of a function, which, in the case of the plane, is the number of times it encircles the origin.

Three girls are among the top 10 winners.  Mathematics is the post popular winning projects.  In addition to Sun's project, two other top-10 winners also submited mathematics project.  Nicholas Michael Wage of Wisconsin finished fourth with a project related to Number Theory.  Kimberly Megan Scott finished tenth with a project that analyzed Ehrenfeucht-Fraisse games, named after the two logicians on whose work these games are based.  Other winners submitted projects in Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science, Space Science, Behavioral and Social Scienses, Medicine, and Environmental Sciences.

For a complete list of winners and their winning projects: 2006 Intel Science Talent Search Winners.