Most Promising Young American Scientists Compete for $100,000 in Intel Science Talent Search 2010

Finalists Present Research to Public, Media; Top Winners Revealed at Awards Gala

--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Intel Corporation:

WHEN:	For Public Day:
	Sunday, March 14, 1-4 p.m. EDT, National Academy of Sciences
	--	Media are invited to meet with finalists as they display their research.
	For Awards Gala:
	Tuesday, March 16, 7-9:30 p.m. EDT, National Building Museum
	--	Media are invited to attend the ceremony or conduct phone interviews with the winners (after 9:30 p.m.).
WHERE:	For Public Day:
	Great Hall of the National Academy of Sciences
	2101 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C.
	For Awards Gala:
	National Building Museum
	401 F Street, NW, Washington, D.C.
WHAT:	The top 40 finalists in the Intel Science Talent Search 2010, a program of Society for Science & the Public (SSP), will be in Washington, D.C. from March 11-16, to compete for more than $630,000 in awards from the Intel Foundation.
	All research projects will be on display for media and the public on March 14 at the National Academy of Sciences. Finalists will be available for interviews and photos with their projects.
	The top 10 winners will be announced at the awards ceremony on March 16. The grand prize winner receives $100,000. Finalists will be available for interviews immediately after top honors are announced by Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini.
	The awards gala concludes the 2010 season of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious pre-college science competition. The young innovators chosen to participate in the Science Talent Search – now in its 69^th year – have gone on to receive some of the world’s most prestigious honors, including the Nobel Prize, the Fields Medal, the National Medal of Science and the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.
WHO:	All 40 Intel Science Talent Search 2010 finalists.
	Wendy Hawkins, executive director of the Intel Foundation; Shelly Esque, vice president of Corporate Affairs at Intel; and Elizabeth Marincola, president of SSP will also be available for comment.
	Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini and Thomas Friedman, New York Times columnist and Pulitzer Prize winning author, will speak at the awards gala.
GENERAL INFO:	The Intel Science Talent Search 2010 online press kit is available at: http://www.intel.com/pressroom/kits/events/sts2010/index.htm.
CONTACT:	To RSVP for either event or to schedule interviews, please contact
	Heather MacKinnon, 917-378-9951, [e-mail]

Finalists by state:

Nick	Christensen	AL	Erika	DeBenedictis	NM
Namrata	Anand	CA	Levent	Alpoge	NY
Otana	Jakpor	CA	Eric	Brooks	NY
David	Liu	CA	Yuval	Calev	NY
Raman	Nelakanti	CA	Rachel	Cawkwell	NY
Sarine	Shahmirian	CA	Michael	Comuniello	NY
Jane	Suh	CA	Ruoyi	Jiang	NY
Lynnelle	Ye	CA	Paul	Masih Das	NY
Angela	Yeung	CA	Joshua	Pfeffer	NY
Jason	Gandelman	CT	Alan	Sage	NY
Arjun	Puranik	IL	Kevin	Xu	NY
Kate	Rudolph	IL	Lori	Ying	NY
Frieda	Fein	IN	James	Fenska	OK
Sunanda	Sharma	MA	Yale	Fan	OR
Yifan	Li	MD	Peter	Hu	TX
John	Capodilupo	MI	Elisa	Lin	TX
Lanair	Lett	NC	Katheryn	Shi	TX
Benjamen	Sun	ND	Temple	Douglas	VA
Akhil	Mathew	NJ	Kevin	Ellis	WA
Linda	Zhou	NJ	Alice	Zhao	WI