Pelham High Student Max Pine Named Intel Science Talent Search Contest Finalist

Seventeen-year-old Pelham Memorial High School student Max Pine has been named one of the finalists in the national Intel Science Talent Search contest, organizers announced this week.

The Intel Science Talent Search (Intel STS) is the nation’s most prestigious pre-college science competition. Alumni of STS have made extraordinary contributions to science and hold more than 100 of the world’s most coveted science and math honors, including the Nobel Prize and National Medal of Science.

Pine’s entry in the contest was “Effect of Climate on the Spatial Distribution and Synchrony of Eight Irruptive Bird Species.”

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The 40 finalists receive an all-expenses-paid trip to Washington, D.C. from March 5-11, where they will compete for more than $1 million in awards provided by the Intel Foundation.

New this year: place of the competition’s previous $100,000 top prize, three Medal of Distinction awards of $150,000 each will be presented to students who show exceptional scientific potential in three areas: Basic Research, Global Good, and Innovation. There are also three second-place awards of $75,000, and three third-place awards of $35,000.

“The 40 finalists of the Intel Science Talent Search are some of the best and brightest young scientists in the nation,” said Maya Ajmera, president and CEO of Society for Science & the Public and publisher of Science News.

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