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TCRSF's SRC
(Scientific Review Committee) is available to answer your questions
for next year's projects. If you have questions or concerns,
send them via email to src@tcrsf.org. Now
is the time to ask while there is time to file the correct
paperwork with your research plan and/or to adjust your research
plan as needed. So that we can help you the most, please
email (or call) with your grade level in school (grade 6, 7, 8
or high school) and with your detailed research plan. If we need
rules clarification, we will be happy to contact the
international Scientific Review Committee on behalf of you and
our region.
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Twin
Cities Students Win Davidson Fellowships!
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Twin
Cities' 2011 competitor, Caleb Kumar from
Blaine, with his paper & project, Designing a Java
Program to Diagnose Bladder Cancer, has won a
$25,000 2011
Davidson Fellowship Scholarship! CONGRATULATIONS,
Caleb!
Twin
Cities' ISEF Finalist in 2010, Gavin
Ovsak (Eden Prairie),
has won a $10,000 2010 Davidson Fellowship Scholarship
with his
science project for 2010!
Twin
Cities' ISEF Finalist in 2008 & 2009, Prithwis
Mukhopadhyay (Woodbury),
has won a $10,000 2009 Davidson Fellowship Scholarship
with his
science project for 2009! Twin Cities' Finalist in 2008, Michael
Cherkassky (Edina), won a $25,000 2008
Davidson Fellowship Scholarship with his
science project for 2008. Congratulations to these science scholars! We
are proud of your accomplishments. For more information on the Davidson
Institute for Talent Development, please check their website.
http://www.davidsongifted.org/fellows/
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sanofi-aventis BioGENEius
Challenge
Prithwis
Mukhopadhyay, 11th grade, Woodbury High School, was one of two
students in the Midwest 12-state area selected as a Regional finalist
in the 2010 sanofi-aventis BioGENEius Challenge.
The other student is from Michigan. Prithwis
will received an all-expense paid trip to compete at the sanofi-aventis
International BioGENEius Challenge in Chicago, IL (May
2-4, 2010) where he won $500 national honorable mention. A press release
from the Midwest competition is available.
In
2009, Stephen Trusheim, 12th grade,
Breck School in Golden Valley, won first place of $7,500 in the 2009
sanofi-aventis International
BioGENEius Challenge with his project entitled
"Engineering and Validating Predictive Infection
Surveillance Strategies for Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus
aureus (MRSA)”
Stephen
Trusheim, now a student at Stanford, was an Intel Science
Talent Search 2009 Finalist (See
YouTube
Science Talent Search Interview with Stephen Trusheim.
) and he earned a 1st grand award at the 2009 Intel
International Science and Engineering Fair among many other
awards. Stephen will return to ISEF in May 2010 to conduct a
workshop symposium.
Congratulations
to these science scholars!
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Society
for Science & the Public Announces Sites for World’s
Largest International High School Science Competitions Through
2019 - Press
Release date October 18, 2009
May
8-13, 2011 – Los Angeles
May
13-18, 2012 – Pittsburgh
May
12-17, 2013 – Phoenix
May
11-16, 2014 – Los Angeles
May
10-15, 2015 – Pittsburgh
May
8-13, 2016 – Phoenix
May
14-19, 2017– Los Angeles
May
13-18, 2018 – Pittsburgh
May
12-17, 2019 – Phoenix
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Local
Teacher Wins International Agilent Teacher Award at ISEF 2009
At ISEF
2009 in Reno, Nevada, Lois Fruen (science teacher, Breck School)
won the Agilent Teacher Award. The
Agilent Teacher Award was presented to a teacher who has best proposed how
they would use the funds to support their professional development in the
sciences and further their support of students in independent research and
also had a student finalist competing at ISEF 2009.
The
Agilent Teacher Awardee, Lois Fruen,
Minneapolis, MN, is the teacher
of Intel ISEF 2009 finalists, Michael Fuad, Sierra Danforth, Sahar
Hakim-Hashemi and Stephen Trusheim.
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Twin
Cities Student Wins Borlaug-Ruan International Internship
Twin
Cities' ISEF Finalist in 2009, Tiffanie Stone
(AFSA High School - Agriculture Food Science Academy, Vadnais
Heights)
has won a prestigious Borlaug-Ruan
International Internship and will be studying/researching during
summer 2009
in the China
National Hybrid Rice Research & Development Center (CNHRRDC) in
Changsha, Hunan, CHINA! Congratulations to Tiffanie on winning this
incredible opportunity of a lifetime. We
are proud of her accomplishments.
To
qualify for this internship, Tiffanie had to be previously selected to participate in
the three-day Global Youth
Institute hosted by the World Food Prize
Foundation, which she attended last year in Iowa. We look forward to
hearing about her research.
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2010:
Sonja Dunlap (Murray Jr. High School, St. Paul) wins the
"Almost
Perfect" Award
TCRSF
Committee awarded Sonja Dunlap (Murray Junior High School, St.
Paul) the "Almost Perfect" award
for having all her students paperwork nearly perfect! Sonja
was responsible to oversee 49 project and research paper entries
for TCRSF. That's a lot of paperwork to be done nearly
perfectly!!! Congratulations to Sonja Dunlap on a job well done!
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2009:
Lois
Fruen (Breck School) wins Perfect Paperwork Award
TCRSF
Committee awarded Lois Fruen (Breck School, Golden Valley) the "Almost Perfect" award
for having all her students paperwork nearly perfect! In fact,
she won a small gift certificate in honor of perfect paperwork
for all her students projects and papers!
At
the 2009 Minnesota State Science and Engineering Fair, Lois Fruen (Breck
School) and Sonja Dunlap (Murray Jr. High) won the Seagate
Science Mentor Awards!
Two
of our Twin Cities science teachers have been chosen to receive
the 2009 Seagate Science Mentor Awards, a statewide recognition
for educators who have mentored student participants in the
regional science fairs across
Minnesota
. The awards were presented to Sonja
Dunlap from
Murray
Junior High School
in
St. Paul
and Lois Fruen from
Breck
School
in
Golden Valley
at the Minnesota State Science and Engineering Fair awards
ceremony, March 30 at the Crowne
Plaza Hotel in downtown St. Paul.
A
press release on the mentor awards is available on the Minnesota Academy of
Science website.
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Eleven Twin Cities students were
named semifinalists
in the 2010 Siemen's Competition: including TCRSF competitors: Emily
Cherkassky (Edina), Prithwis Mukhopadhyay (Woodbury), and Addison Weiler
(Breck). Congratulations
to these science scholars!
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The
National
Museum of Education selected Gavin G. Ovsak (Eden
Prairie) for induction into the 2010 National Gallery of America's Young
Inventors where Gavin received the Thomas Edison Innovation Award.
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Intel's
Science Talent Search semifinalists have been named for
2011. Congratulations to Prithwis Mukhopadhyay (Woodbury).
Each semifinalist earns $1,000. Finalists will be named on January 26,
2011.
FURTHER UPDATE: Congratulations to Prithwis Mukhopadhyay (Woodbury)
for being named 2011
Finalist in the Intel's
Science Talent Search . Each finalist will compete for
awards (top award of $100,000) in Washington D.C. in March.
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