The prizes are significant. A win can mean a hundred thousand dollars ($100,000). And this year, females made a significant impact:

“…Girls swept the top awards at the ninth annual high school research competition, as 17-year-olds Janelle Schlossberger and Amanda Marinoff of Plainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High in Plainview, N.Y., split the $100,000 top team prize for their tuberculosis drug research.”

link: Girls dominate Siemens science contest

Congratulations to these competitors. (And, at a time such as this, one cannot help but think back to former Harvard University President Lawrence Summers’ unfortunate remarks about “intrinsic aptitude“.) Kudos to these scholars.

Catherine Forsythe

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