San Diego Student wins top award at National Junior Science and Humanities Symposium!
Francis Song of La Jolla High School was one of 7 first place winners
at the U.S. Army, Navy and Air-Force sponsored 39th National Junior
Science and Humanities Symposium held April 25 - 29th in Orlando,
FL -- receiving a $20,000 scholarship and the opportunity to participate
in the London International Youth Science Forum this summer. Details of
the program and its sponsors may be found at
www.jshs.org -- Francis' project
was the one which made him a Senior Sweepstakes winner at the recent
Greater San Diego Science and Engineering Fair -- "Application of
Differential Evolution to the Solution of Differential Equations." He
left yesterday to compete in the International
Science and Engineering Fair in San Jose, California.
Below is an earlier press release sent when Francis was named Southern
California's JSHS winner, Grace Leslie of San Dieguito Academy
was named a runner-up and Larry Nordell of Mt. Miguel High
was named Teacher of the Year.
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Top Area High School Science Students Seek Recognition,
Scholarships For Outstanding Research at UC Irvine Symposium
Irvine, Calif., April 5, 2001 -- More than two dozen of
Southern California's top high school students had an opportunity
to be professional scientists at the Southern California Regional
Junior Science and Humanities Symposium, an annual competition
offering recognition and scholarship funds for outstanding
presentation of research. The event was held at UC Irvine on
March 23 and 24.
Francis Song, a junior at La Jolla High School, earned the top prize
of a $4,000 scholarship for his paper, "Application of Differential
Evolution to the Solution of Differential Equations." Song will go
on to present his research at the national Junior Science and
Humanities Symposium in Orlando, Fla., April 25 to 29, where he
will compete for a $20,000 scholarship.
Six runners-up also are invited to attend the Orlando national
symposium--Amit Lakhanpal of University High School
in Irvine, Timothy Dong and Wing Y. Li of Alhambra
High School, Hannah Gray of Morro Bay High School, Grace
Leslie of San Dieguito Academy in Encinitas and Christine Concho
of Barstow High School. Abstracts of their papers will be included
in the program for that event.
Overall, 27 students submitted research papers in the categories of
biology, biochemistry/microbiology, chemistry, earth and space
science, engineering, environmental sciences, medicine and
health, physics, computer science and mathematics. The
annual symposium encourages high school students to present
original research in the sciences, engineering and
mathematics. Scientists from public and private institutions
review the submissions and grant prizes to those
contributing outstanding work.
A separate award of $500 was presented to science teacher
Larry Nordell of Mount Miguel High School in Spring Valley for his
outstanding support to students doing research and preparing for
and presenting at the symposium.
The judges were highly impressed with the quality and effort
shown in students' work. "These students have a head start on
excellent careers as mathematics and science researchers," said Arnold
Shugarman of Chapman University, the chief judge and
co-director of the event.
The Southern California Regional Symposium, which is one of 48
regional symposia organized worldwide, was sponsored by UCI's
Center for Educational Partnerships. Center Director Juan Francisco Lara
welcomed students to the Saturday presentations by congratulating
the finalists, saying that this day was "one important step in a
long series of practices for a world-class performance."
This is the first year that UCI has been the sponsor for this
event. UCI plans to continue to sponsor and expand the scope and
range of events that recognize the capability of high school students
to make significant contributions to science and the humanities.
Symposium judges represented faculty from UCI departments of
chemistry, psychiatry and human behavior, and neurobiology and
behavior; Chapman University; Fullerton College; Bell
Gardens Unified School District; the Boeing Company; and
Beckman-Coulter Inc.
The Junior Science and Humanities Symposium, established
in 1963, is sponsored nationally by the U.S. Army Research
Office, Office of Naval Research, Air Force Office of Scientific
Research and the Air Force Research Laboratory.
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