Editing Regeneron Science Talent Search (section)

==History==
The [[Society for Science]] began the competition in 1942 with [[Westinghouse Electric (1886)|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">{{cite web | url=http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/1998/04/01/29sci.h17.html?print=1 | title=Intel Corp. To Sponsor Annual Science Contest | publisher=Education Weekly | date=1 April 1998}}</ref> In May 2016, it was announced that [[Regeneron Pharmaceuticals]] would be the new title sponsor.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Pierson|first1=Ransdell|title=Biotech Regeneron replaces Intel as sponsor of Science Talent Search|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-regeneron-pharms-intel-science-idUSKCN0YH09G|website=www.reuters.com|date=26 May 2016|agency=Reuters|access-date=26 May 2016}}</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 Prize]]s, [[Fields Medal]]s, [[MacArthur Fellowships]] and numerous other accolades.<ref name="ABC">{{cite news |title=Intel Science Talent Search crowns 10 promising students |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=7062528 |work=ABC News |date=11 March 2009 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="snexplores">{{cite news |last1=Brookshire |first1=Bethany |title=From high school prize to Nobel Prize |url=https://www.snexplores.org/blog/eureka-lab/high-school-prize-nobel-prize |work=Science News Explores |date=18 October 2013}}</ref><ref name="smithsonian">{{cite news |last1=Fessenden |first1=Maris |title=Intel Drops Sponsorship of the Science Talent Search |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/intel-drops-sponsorship-science-talent-search-180956573/ |work=Smithsonian Magazine |date=11 September 2015 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="CNN">{{cite news |last1=Lewis |first1=Nell |title=Top students vie for $3.1m in science prizes |url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/25/world/us-science-talent-search-2018-finalists/index.html |work=CNN |date=25 January 2018 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="honors">{{cite web|title=Society Alumni Honors|url=https://student.societyforscience.org/society-alumni-honors|publisher=Society for Science and the Public|access-date=13 February 2023}}</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 [[Lasker Award|Albert Lasker Award]] for Basic Medical Research; seven have won a [[Breakthrough Prize]]; and many have been elected to the [[United States National Academy of Sciences|National Academy of Sciences]] and the [[National Academy of Engineering]].<ref name="honors"/>