The exhibit hall at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, where 1,557 high school students had set up booths to present their work to judges and other visitors. [Link to this slide]
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Our first stop was with Lindsay Marie Stewart , 18, of Grove High School in Grove, Okla. Stewart has been studying kudzu, the bane of an invasive species in the South, since she learned about it in space camp in Alabama four years ago....[More]

Our first stop was with Lindsay Marie Stewart, 18, of Grove High School in Grove, Okla. Stewart has been studying kudzu, the bane of an invasive species in the South, since she learned about it in space camp in Alabama four years ago. At this year's fair, she presented her work on whether or not it would be a good biofuel source. Her efforts won her a $500 savings bond from the Ashtavadhani Vidwan Ambati Subbaraya Chetty Foundation and $500 from Intel.  [Less] [Link to this slide]

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Here, Julie Emily Walker, 17, demonstrates her Mars Environmental Simulator. Walker, of Leonardtown High School, Md., walked away with a $1,500 second-place award in the Electrical & Mechanical Engineering division....[More]

Here, Julie Emily Walker, 17, demonstrates her Mars Environmental Simulator. Walker, of Leonardtown High School, Md., walked away with a $1,500 second-place award in the Electrical & Mechanical Engineering division.  [Less] [Link to this slide]

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Sisters Taytlyn (14) and Tesca (11) Fitzgerald of Tigard, Ore., show off how they made robots —out of Legos—" spectacular in a generic way "....[More]

Sisters Taytlyn (14) and Tesca (11) Fitzgerald of Tigard, Ore., show off how they made robots—out of Legos—"spectacular in a generic way".  [Less] [Link to this slide]

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Albuquerque, N.M., 16-year-old twins Heba Naser Aggad and Haya Aggad have a new idea for lowering your cholesterol: apple cider vinegar. When they added it to blood samples, each drop lowered cholesterol about one point....[More]

Albuquerque, N.M., 16-year-old twins Heba Naser Aggad and Haya Aggad have a new idea for lowering your cholesterol: apple cider vinegar. When they added it to blood samples, each drop lowered cholesterol about one point.  [Less] [Link to this slide]

This annual ISEF volunteer's jacket is filled with scores of buttons given to him by students from around the world. [Link to this slide]
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Joseph Christopher Church, of Washington, D.C., wants to use the compressed air available around the world to create a battery . By the time we visited his booth, his small compressed air canister was empty, so here he is using a bicycle pump to show me how his air battery creates voltage....[More]

Joseph Christopher Church, of Washington, D.C., wants to use the compressed air available around the world to create a battery. By the time we visited his booth, his small compressed air canister was empty, so here he is using a bicycle pump to show me how his air battery creates voltage.  [Less] [Link to this slide]

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To improve child safety in cars , Nicholas Samir Ekladyous, of automaker capital Detroit's suburb, Bloomfield Hills, built this "next generation child booster seat." The seat is "designed around biomechanical principles of occupant kinematics" and tested well using a six-year-old test dummy....[More]

To improve child safety in cars, Nicholas Samir Ekladyous, of automaker capital Detroit's suburb, Bloomfield Hills, built this "next generation child booster seat." The seat is "designed around biomechanical principles of occupant kinematics" and tested well using a six-year-old test dummy.  [Less] [Link to this slide]

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A proud group of finalists from Denmark. Students represented 51 countries at the fair. [Link to this slide]
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Another group of proud finalists, this one from Jordan. [Link to this slide]
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A scene from Friday's Grand Awards Ceremony. In addition to about $1 million in scholarships and prizes, first- and second-place winners will all have asteroids named after them ....[More]

A scene from Friday's Grand Awards Ceremony. In addition to about $1 million in scholarships and prizes, first- and second-place winners will all have asteroids named after them.  [Less] [Link to this slide]

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The three first-place winners: Sana Raoof, 17, of Jericho, N.Y.; Yi-Han Su, 17, of Taipei, Taiwan; and Natalie Saranga Omattage, 17, of Columbus, Miss. Each will get $50,000 in scholarship money. [Link to this slide]
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Raoof—who studied how mathematical theories could solve problems in biochemistry—interviewed by the press. [Link to this slide]
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