Good for them
Medical research projects by a student from Texas and a team from North Carolina won $100,000 prizes Monday in a prestigious high school science competition.
Prizes of $10,000 to $50,000 were presented to five other high school students and five teams of two at the awards ceremony for the Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology.
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Sajith Wickramasekara and Andrew Guo, both 17 and seniors at North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics in Durham, N.C., won the team prize for genetic research aimed at identifying new chemotherapy drugs.
"We were looking at developing a model to take existing chemotherapy drugs and improve them, and in the process identify new ones easily," Wickramasekara said.
Kushlani Wickramasekara said her son and Guo worked on the project from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily over the summer.
"I think they put in altogether about 1,000 hours," she said.
Today's Durham feel good story.
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Back when I was at NCSSM (25 years ago!), the Westinghouse Competition was far less sophisticated. (Not to mention, it wasn't yet renamed to Siemens.)
One of my hall-mates got a small local prize for a gizmo he made for keeping fish alive while being transported between Jordan Lake and the lab aquariums. It was a called a "portable aeration/filtration unit" and it worked just fine. It could also serve as a battery-powered bong.
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Marsosudiro, at 3:28 PM
If only the Alton Brown Multi-Tasking Kitchen Device prize had been in existence then.
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Barry, at 3:30 PM
p.s. to be fair, it should be mentioned that the winners live in Cary and Raleigh. But their REALLY cool schooling is happening in Durham.
When I was in school, it seemed like most of the faculty also lived in Durham. I wonder if it's still true?
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Marsosudiro, at 11:20 PM
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