3 Nashville Students in Running for $100K Scholarship Prize

NASHVILLE, TENN. — Three Nashville students are semi-finalists in the 2016 Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology. Winners in the national contest will get a piece of $500,000 in scholarship money, including the two top prizes, each worth $100,000.

Local students advancing include Micah Foster of Hume-Fogg Magnet High School and Alice Irizarry and Anna Reside, both of the School for Science and Mathematics at Vanderbilt University.

More than 1,600 projects were submitted for the math and science contest, with 498 selected as semi-finalists. That group will be narrowed further during regional competitions in November, before the national finals in Washington, D.C. in December.

Created in 1999 by the Siemens Foundation, the competition was established to provide more opportunities for talented students, while encouraging innovation and research, according to the organization's website.

"This competition seeks to recognize and build a strong pipeline for the nation’s most promising scientists, engineers and mathematicians," according to the site.

In August, Hume-Fogg was named among Newsweek's Top Public High Schools for 2016 — one of only four schools in the state to make the list.

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