Regeneron Science Talent Search

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The 2002 Intel Science Talent Search finalist banquet, held at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, DC, where the ten winners were announced and all 40 finalists were acknowledged.

The Regeneron Science Talent Search, known for its first 57 years[1] as the Westinghouse Science Talent Search, and then as the Intel Science Talent Search (Intel STS) from 1998 through 2016,[2] is a research-based science competition in the United States for high school seniors. It has been referred to as "the nation's oldest and most prestigious" [3] science competition. In his speech at the dinner honoring the 1991 Winners, President George H. W. Bush called the competition the "Super Bowl of science."[4]

History

The Society for Science began the competition in 1942 with Westinghouse Electric Corporation; for many years, the competition was known as the Westinghouse Science Talent Search. In 1998, Intel became the sponsor after it outbid several other companies.[5] In May 2016, it was announced that Regeneron Pharmaceuticals would be the new title sponsor.[6] Over the years, some 147,000 students have entered the competition. Over 22,000 have been named semifinalists and 2,920 have traveled to Washington, D.C., as contest finalists. Collectively, they have received millions of dollars in scholarships and gone on, in later years, to capture Nobel Prizes, Fields Medals, MacArthur Fellowships and numerous other accolades.[7]

Thirteen went on to receive Nobel Prizes, two earned the Fields Medal, eleven have been awarded the National Medal of Science, eighteen received MacArthur Fellowships; three have won the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research; five have won a Breakthrough Prize; 43 have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences; and eleven have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering.[7]

In 2020, due to the seriousness of the coronavirus pandemic, Society for Science & The Public and Regeneron held the finalist week as a virtual competition in lieu of traveling to Washington D.C. [8]

Competition

Entrants to the competition conduct original research—sometimes at home and sometimes by "working with leading research teams at universities, hospitals and private laboratories."[1] The selection process is highly competitive, and besides the research paper, letters of recommendation, essays, test scores, extracurricular activities, and high school transcripts may be factored in the selection of finalists and winners.

Awards as of 2017[9]
Award Prize
First Place $250,000
Second Place $175,000
Third Place $150,000
Fourth Place $100,000
Fifth Place $90,000
Sixth Place $80,000
Seventh Place $70,000
Eighth Place $60,000
Ninth Place $50,000
Tenth Place $40,000
40 Finalists $25,000
300 Semifinalists $2,000

Each year, approximately 1,800 papers are submitted. The top 300 applicants are announced in mid-January and since 2017 each semifinalist and their school receives $2,000 from the title sponsor.[10] In late January, the 40 Finalists (the award winners) are informed. In March, the Finalists are flown to Washington, D.C. where they are interviewed for the top ten spots, which have awards up to $250,000. The judges have included Glenn T. Seaborg (Nobel Laureate with Edwin M. McMillan in Chemistry, 1951) and Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr. (Nobel Laureate in Physics, 1993). All Finalists receive awards of at least $25,000.[9]

Demography

Since the beginning of the competition, students from New York have done very well in the Science Talent Search, although there have been finalists from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and Guam. Certain high schools have been particularly successful at placing semifinalists and finalists in the Science Talent Search.

Top states

New York has had by far the most finalists in the competition, followed by California, Illinois, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Florida, Virginia, Massachusetts, Texas, and Ohio. [11][12][13][14][15][16][17]

Top states for finalists (1942–2022)
State Finalists
New York 1013
California 306
Illinois 173
Pennsylvania 128
Maryland 124
New Jersey 123
Florida 117
Virginia 112
Massachusetts 103
Texas 100
Ohio 91

Leading high schools in recent era

Reliable online records of the high schools attended by semifinalists and finalists are only available since 1999, when Intel took over sponsorship of the Science Talent Search, although there are newspaper articles naming the finalists from earlier years.[18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29] A small group of schools have produced a large number of the recent semifinalists and finalists.[30] A large number of semifinalists, finalists, and winners of the Science Talent Search have also attended the Research Science Institute, a summer program hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[31]

Four specialized STEM schools top the list, averaging more than 7 semifinalists per year: Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, MD, Bronx High School of Science in Bronx, NY, Stuyvesant High School in New York, NY, and Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, VA,. Many winners also come from the Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science in Denton, TX, the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics in Durham, NC, the Bergen County Academies in Hackensack, NJ, and the Illinois Math and Science Academy in Aurora, IL. Among high schools without selective admissions, New York public schools top the list, with Ward Melville High School in East Setauket, Byram Hills High School in Armonk, Paul D. Schreiber High School in Port Washington, and Jericho High School in Jericho among the top ten. Only one private school, The Harker School in San Jose, CA, is among the top schools.[11][32][33][34][12][35][13][36][14][37][15][38][16][39][17]

Schools with the most semifinalists and finalists (1999–2022)
School City State Semi-finalists Finalists
Montgomery Blair High School Silver Spring MD 232 44
Bronx High School of Science New York NY 209 12
Stuyvesant High School New York NY 194 22
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology Alexandria VA 191 18
Ward Melville High School East Setauket NY 146 13
Byram Hills High School Armonk NY 114 18
North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics Durham NC 112 3
Jericho High School Jericho NY 108 13
Bergen County Academies Hackensack NJ 108 12
The Harker School San Jose CA 104 20
Paul D. Schreiber High School Port Washington NY 102 6
Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science Denton TX 98 12
Ossining High School Ossining NY 88 7
Roslyn High School Roslyn NY 76 9
Great Neck North High School Great Neck NY 74 7
John F. Kennedy High School Bellmore NY 62 8
Great Neck South High School Great Neck NY 57 5
Midwood High School Brooklyn NY 50 5
Lynbrook High School San Jose CA 50 9
Illinois Math and Science Academy Aurora IL 49 9
Lawrence High School Cedarhurst NY 49 3
Hunter College High School New York NY 47 6
Greenwich High School Greenwich CT 45 8

List of prominent individuals who were past winners

Finalist[7] Year Placed[11] High School Notability
Evelyne Peace Tyner 1942 Finalist Environmentalist who conserved large areas of native prairie with a ecology centre named after her, awarded the LEED award.
Robert Kraichnan 1944 2nd boy National Academy of Sciences
Ben Mottelson 1944 Finalist Lyons Township High School 1975 Nobel Prize in Physics
Andrew Sessler 1945 Finalist Forest Hills High School National Academy of Sciences
Gerald Edelman 1946 Semifinalist John Adams High School 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Leon Cooper 1947 Finalist Bronx High School of Science 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics
Martin Karplus 1947 Top Boy Newton High School 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Ronald Breslow 1948 Finalist 1991 National Medal of Science
R. Stephen Berry 1948 Finalist East High School 1983 MacArthur Fellowship, National Academy of Sciences
Walter Gilbert 1949 Finalist Sidwell Friends School 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Sheldon Glashow 1950 Finalist Bronx High School of Science 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics
Paul Cohen 1950 Finalist Stuyvesant High School 1966 Fields Medal
John L. Hall 1952 Semifinalist South High School 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics
David Mumford 1953 Finalist Phillips Exeter Academy 1974 Fields Medal
Joanna Russ 1953 Top Ten William Howard Taft High School Hugo and Nebula Awards, author of The Female Man
Marcian Hoff 1954 Top Ten Churchville-Chili Senior High School 2009 National Medal of Technology and Innovation
Roald Hoffmann 1955 Finalist Stuyvesant High School 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Leroy Hood 1956 Finalist Shelby High School 2011 National Medal of Science
Donald Knuth 1956 Semifinalist[40] Milwaukee Lutheran High School 1974 Turing Award, 1979 National Medal of Science
Kip Thorne 1958 Semifinalist Logan High School 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics
Robert Axelrod 1961 Finalist Evanston Township High School 2012 National Medal of Science
Gary A. Wegner 1963 Finalist Bothell High School Humboldt Prize
Paul L. Modrich 1964 Semifinalist Raton High School 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Ray Kurzweil 1965 Finalist Martin Van Buren High School 1999 National Medal of Technology and Innovation
Frank Wilczek 1967 Finalist Martin Van Buren High School 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics
Alvin Roth 1968 Semifinalist Martin Van Buren High School 2012 Nobel Prize in Economics
Roger Y. Tsien 1968 1st Place Livingston High School 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Thomas Felix Rosenbaum 1973 Finalist Forest Hills High School President, California Institute of Technology
Eric Lander 1974 1st Place Stuyvesant High School 2014 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
F. Thomson Leighton 1974 2nd Place Stuyvesant High School National Academy of Sciences, Akamai Technologies co-founder and CEO
Paul Zeitz 1975 1st Place Stuyvesant High School 1974 USAMO Winner
George Yancopoulos 1976 Top Ten Bronx High School of Science National Academy of Sciences, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals co-founder and CSO
Richard H. Ebright 1977 Finalist Muhlenberg High School American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Ron Unz 1979 1st Place North Hollywood High School Wall Street Analytics founder; political activist
Lisa Randall 1980 1st Place Stuyvesant High School National Academy of Sciences
Brian Greene 1980 Finalist Stuyvesant High School The Elegant Universe author
Noam Elkies 1982 Finalist Stuyvesant High School 2004 Levi L. Conant Prize
Wendy Chung 1986 1st Place Miami Killian High School American Academy of Pediatrics Young Investigator Award
Jordan Ellenberg 1989 2nd Place Winston Churchill High School American Mathematical Society Fellow
Matthew Headrick 1990 1st Place University of Chicago Laboratory Schools High h-index/highly cited physicist
Maneesh Agrawala 1990 Finalist Montgomery Blair High School 2009 MacArthur Fellowship
Christopher Bouton 1992 Finalist Saint Ann's School (Brooklyn) Entagen founder and CEO
Wei-Hwa Huang 1993 6th Place Montgomery Blair High School World Puzzle Champion 1995, 1997-1999
Robert Sarvis 1994 4th Place Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology Libertarian politician
Daniel Biss 1995 Finalist Bloomington North High School Illinois state senator
Jacob Lurie 1996 1st Place Montgomery Blair High School 2014 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics
Keith Winstein 1999 4th Place Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy 2014 SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation Award
Feng Zhang 2000 3rd Place Theodore Roosevelt High School 2014 NSF Alan T. Waterman Award
Mariangela Lisanti 2001 1st Place Staples High School 2013 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists
Tianhui Michael Li 2003 2nd Place Oregon Episcopal School Marshall Scholar, Hertz Foundation Fellow, data scientist, founder and CEO of The Data Incubator[41]

See also

The Society for Science also administers two other international science competitions:

References

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  42. ^ "Broadcom MASTERS". Society for Science and the Public. Retrieved 17 December 2019.

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