Seventeen young women and 23 young men rose to the top from a pool of 1,608 entrants in the 2009 Intel Science Talent Search, America’s oldest high school science competition. The 40 finalists will travel to Washington, D.C. in March to compete for $530,000 in scholarships, with the top winner receiving a $100,000 scholarship from the Intel Foundation.
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