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Nine high-school seniors from Long Island won finalist slots

作者：TCM 於 2010-1-28 07:31 發表於最熱鬧的華人社交網路--貝殼村

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Nine high-school seniors from Long Island won finalist slots Wednesday afternoon in the Intel science competition - more than a fifth of the 40 finalists nationwide.

But there's little time for immediate celebration. Many of the Island's teenage science whizzes are taking midterm exams along with classmates this week, leaving some a bit breathless from both excitement and exertion.

"When I realized the call was from Intel, my heart basically stopped," said one finalist, Kevin Xu of Roslyn High School. Like other winners, he received advance notification Tuesday evening, in a phone call from contest officials.

For his research project, Xu surveyed 105 breast-cancer patients in Brooklyn and Staten Island, to check on the quality of their health care. Among his findings: only 44 percent of those patients received follow-up treatment, such as chemotherapy, once their cancer was confirmed.

Xu started his research as a 10th grader, calling dozens of inner-city cancer clinics before finally finding a few agencies willing to help with his survey.

"He is the person I would pick to win a Nobel Prize in medicine someday," said Allyson Weseley, coordinator of secondary research in the Roslyn school district.

The Three Village school district produced two finalists. They are Yuval Calev and Ruoyi Jiang, both 17, and students at Ward Melville High School. Jiang last month won a $100,000 top prize in the Siemens science contest, which is also national in scope.

The other finalists are Levent Alpoge (Half Hollow Hills High School West in Dix Hills), Eric Brooks (George W. Hewlett High School), Michael Comuniello (Division Avenue High School in Levittown), Paul Masih Das (Lawrence High School in Cedarhurst), Joshua Pfeffer (North Shore Hebrew Academy in Great Neck) and Lori Ying (South Side High School in Rockville Centre).

Finalists will gather in Washington, D.C., from March 11-16, to compete for more than $630,000 in prizes, including a $100,000 top award. Established in 1942, the Intel contest is the nation's oldest student research competition and is funded by a California-based maker of computer chips.