Thursday 10 September 2015

Intel dropping support for the Science Talent Search

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Sad news, junior mathletes and STEM jockeys. Chipmaker Intel has decided to end its long-running sponsorship of the annual Science Talent Search. The competition—organized by Society for Science and the Public—was first held in 1942 and aims to find the brightest and best student scientists in the country each year. Intel had been the title sponsor since 1998 but will end its support after 2017.

The competition is open to students in their final year of high school, and it awards prizes in three categories: basic research, global good, and innovation. First place in each of those three categories won a not-inconsiderable $150,000 in 2015. Noah Golowich (for developing a mathematical proof), Andrew Jin (for a machine-learning algorithm for finding genetic adaptations), and Michael Hoffman Winer (for studying how sound quasi-particles interact with electrons) all took top honors this year.

Intel was only the second-ever sponsor of the competition, which had previously been supported by Westinghouse. According to the New York Times, there are eight nobel laureates among past winners.

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