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Car-crazy kid wins Broadcom competition

By Laura Sanders / October 3, 2012

Raymond Gilmartin just won top honors – and a $25,000 educational award – at the Broadcom MASTERS competition for middle-school scientists and engineers. Credit: Broadcom MASTERS, IML Photography

First place at middle-school MASTERS event goes to an eighth grader who studied automotive spoilers

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Kids’ ingenuity honored at Intel ISEF

By Laura Sanders / May 18, 2011

Intel ISEF winners. From left to right: Matthew Feddersen, 17, and Blake Marggraff, 18, took top honors and $75,000 with the Gordon E. Moore Award; Taylor Wilson, 17, garnered a Young Scientist Award and $50,000; and Tanpitcha Phongchaipaiboon, 17, Pornwasu Pongtheerawan, 16, and Arada Sungkanit, 17, also received a Young Scientist Award and $50,000.

Young scientists receive awards in international competition

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Young scientists at the state of the union address

By Laura Sanders / January 28, 2010

Two winners of national science contests invited to attend Jan. 27 speech

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