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

The Regeneron Science Talent Search, known for its first 57 years<ref name="pressrel98">Template:Cite press release</ref> as the Westinghouse Science Talent Search, and then as the Intel Science Talent Search (Intel STS) from 1998 through 2016,<ref name="Intel Ending">Template:Cite news</ref> 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" <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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."<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

HistoryEdit

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.<ref name="1998edweek">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In May 2016, it was announced that Regeneron Pharmaceuticals would be the new title sponsor.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> 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.<ref name="ABC">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="snexplores">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="smithsonian">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="CNN">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="honors">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Thirteen alumni of the Science Talent Search went on to receive Nobel Prizes;<ref name="snexplores"/><ref name="CNN"/> two earned the Fields Medal;<ref name="smithsonian"/> eleven have been awarded the National Medal of Science; twenty received MacArthur Fellowships;<ref name="ABC"/> three have won the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research; seven have won a Breakthrough Prize; and many have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering.<ref name="honors"/>

CompetitionEdit

Entrants to the competition conduct original research—sometimes at home and sometimes by working with leading research teams at universities, hospitals and private laboratories.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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.

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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
30 finalists $25,000
300 scholars $2,000

Each year, approximately 2,000 projects are submitted. The top 300 STS Scholars (previously called semifinalists or honorable mention) are announced in mid-January and each receive $2,000. In addition to the scholar award money, each scholar’s school receives an award of $2,000 from the title sponsor for each scholar named.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }} </ref> In late January, the Top 40 Finalists (the award winners) are announced. In March, the Finalists are flown to Washington, D.C. for a week where they are interviewed by a judging panel about their projects, and to assess the breadth and depth of STEM knowledge, creativity and problem solving abilities. 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). The Top 40 Finalists receive awards of at least $25,000 and the winners are announced at an awards ceremony in Washington, D.C.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

DemographyEdit

The Science Talent Search is open to high school seniors living in the United States, and US citizens living abroad.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Since the beginning of the competition, a large number of winners have come from New York, representing nearly one-third of the finalists in the years that Westinghouse sponsored the competition.<ref name="STSyears">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> New York has continued to lead the states in finalists in more recent years, more closely followed by California, and with significant numbers of finalists from Maryland, Texas, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Florida, Virginia, and Illinois. <ref name="STSyears"/><ref name="finalists17">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="finalists18">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="finalists19">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="finalists20">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="finalists21">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="finalists22">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="finalists23">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="finalists24">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="finalists25">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Top states for finalists
State Total finalists Westinghouse (1942-1998) Intel (1999–2016) Regeneron (2017–2025)
New York 1038 752 215 71
California 329 163 103 63
Illinois 174 149 24 1
Pennsylvania 131 101 18 12
New Jersey 127 87 24 16
Florida 125 84 24 16
Maryland 125 65 45 15
Virginia 120 82 16 22
Massachusetts 109 68 24 17
Texas 105 54 32 19
Ohio 93 78 10 5
Wisconsin 60 48 9 3
Oregon 60 30 20 10
Michigan 59 37 15 7
Indiana 56 43 9 4
Connecticut 56 30 18 8

Certain high schools have been particularly successful at placing semifinalists and finalists in the Science Talent Search.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> From the early years of the competition, two specialized high schools in New York City dominated the competition: Bronx High School of Science and Stuyvesant High School.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="berger">Template:Cite news</ref> Other New York schools have also had notable success in the competition, including Ward Melville High School in East Setauket, Byram Hills High School in Armonk, Jericho High School in Jericho, and Paul D. Schreiber Senior High School in Port Washington.<ref name="berger"/><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In the 1980s and 1990s, other specialized STEM schools, including Virginia's Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology and Maryland's Montgomery Blair High School, began to produce large numbers of finalists to rival the New York schools.<ref name="berger">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In the 21st century, a new group of specialized STEM schools have had growing success in the competition, including New Jersey's Bergen County Academies, and the private Harker School in California.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

List of prominent individuals who were past winnersEdit

Many alumni of the Science Talent Search went on to receive awards and recognition in science, mathematics, and engineering.<ref name="snexplores"/><ref name="smithsonian"/><ref name="CNN"/><ref name="honors"/><ref name="STSyears"/>

Finalist Year Placed High School Notability
Evelyne Pease Tyner 1942 Finalist Environmentalist who conserved large areas of native prairie with a ecology centre named after her, awarded the LEED award.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Robert Kraichnan 1944 2nd boy National Academy of Sciences<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
Ben Mottelson 1944 Finalist Lyons Township High School 1975 Nobel Prize in Physics<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
Andrew Sessler 1945 Finalist Forest Hills High School National Academy of Sciences<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
Gerald Edelman 1946 Honorable Mention John Adams High School 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
Leon Cooper 1947 Finalist Bronx High School of Science 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
Martin Karplus 1947 Top Boy Newton High School 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
Ronald Breslow 1948 Finalist 1991 National Medal of Science<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
R. Stephen Berry 1948 Finalist East High School 1983 MacArthur Fellowship, National Academy of Sciences<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
Fred Brooks 1949 Honorable Mention Greenville High School 1985 National Medal of Technology and Innovation<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Walter Gilbert 1949 Finalist Sidwell Friends School 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Paul Cohen 1950 Finalist Stuyvesant High School 1966 Fields Medal; 1967 National Medal of Science<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Sheldon Glashow 1950 Finalist Bronx High School of Science 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Dana Scott 1950 Honorable Mention C. K. McClatchy High School 1976 Turing Award
John L. Hall 1952 Honorable Mention 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
Alar Toomre 1953 Honorable Mention Sewanhaka High School 1984 MacArthur Fellowship
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
Mary-Dell Chilton 1956 Finalist Hinsdale Township High School 2023 National Medal of Technology and Innovation
Leroy Hood 1956 Finalist Shelby High School 2011 National Medal of Science
Donald Knuth 1956 Honorable Mention Milwaukee Lutheran High School 1974 Turing Award, 1979 National Medal of Science
Jane S. Richardson 1958 3rd Place Teaneck High School 1985 MacArthur Fellowship, National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Medicine
John Henry Schwarz 1958 Honorable Mention North Shore High School 1987 MacArthur Fellowship; 2014 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
Kip Thorne 1958 Honorable Mention Logan High School 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics
Charles H. Bennett 1960 4th Place Croton-Harmon High School 2023 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
Robert Axelrod 1961 Finalist Evanston Township High School 2012 National Medal of Science
Whitfield Diffie 1961 Honors Jamaica High School 2015 Turing Award
Gary A. Wegner 1963 Honors Bothell High School Humboldt Prize
Paul L. Modrich 1964 Honors 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 Honors Martin Van Buren High School 2012 Nobel Prize in Economics
Roger Y. Tsien 1968 1st Place Livingston High School 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Gordon J. Freeman 1969 Finalist Arlington Heights High School National Academy of Sciences
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
Ronald Vale 1976 Finalist Hollywood High School National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Medicine
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
David Spergel 1978 Honors John Glenn High School 2001 MacArthur Fellow; 2018 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
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
Lisa Su 1986 Honors Bronx High School of Science IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal; CEO of AMD
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
David R. Liu 1990 2nd Place Riverside Poly High School National Academy of Sciences
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 Mayor of Evanston, Illinois
Jacob Lurie 1996 1st Place Montgomery Blair High School 2014 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics
Bill Thies 1997 Finalist State College Area High School 2016 MacArthur Fellowship
Keith Winstein 1999 4th Place Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy 2014 SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation Award
Feng Zhang 2000 3rd Place Theodore Roosevelt High School National Academy of Sciences
Mariangela Lisanti 2001 1st Place Staples High School 2013 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists
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Tianhui Michael Li 2003 2nd Place Oregon Episcopal School Marshall Scholar, Hertz Foundation Fellow, data scientist, founder and CEO of The Data Incubator<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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Lester Mackey 2003 6th Place Half Hollow Hills High School West 2023 MacArthur Fellowship

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