Girl power,indeed: Three young women take top creative science awards

The Intel International Science and Engineering Fair wrapped Sunday with the announcement of the three grand-prize winners – all Americans and all teenaged girls.

I’ll be posting an interview about the fair here soon, but in the meantime, here are some video highlights featuring winners  Tara Adiseshan (14, of Charlottesville, Va.), Li Boynton (17, of Houston) and Olivia Schwob (16,of Boston), as well as Intel Chairman Craig Barrett.

Art imitating tech

At the 2009 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair going on this week in Reno, at least a few of the scientifically gifted students participating will have some robots to show off. So I have to ask, who’s more creative - people who can make robots behave like humans or people inspired by robots to behave like machines?

Science of tomorrow today

The annual Intel International Science and Engineering Fair is under way today through Friday in  Reno, Nev., where 1,500 talented students from over 50 countries have converged to demonstrate their scientific skills, research and innovative ideas and compete for $4 million in scholarships.  The top three winners will receive $50,00 each.

Our creative future is in the making out there at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center. The fair, a program of the nonprofit  Society for Science and the Public, has been around for 60 years and is the largest student science competition in the world. It also draws the best – many of the young participants already hold, or are applying for, patents.

Check out blog entries and videos about the fair and young scientists’ ideas here.