By Ben Harder
Forty high school students—the top 2.6 percent of 1,558 competitors—have each earned a spot as a finalist in the 65th annual Intel Science Talent Search. With some half-a-million dollars in scholarships hanging in the balance, the students’ diverse science, math, and engineering projects will compete head-to-head in Washington, D.C., in March.
As in past years, New York produced more finalists than any other state did. A student from Idaho and another from Utah are the first finalists to represent their respective states in more than a decade.