Siemens Westinghouse Competition Winners 2005-6
This year’s winners of the team category in the Siemens Westinghouse Competition in Math, Science and Technology developed a genomics software called SNiPer: Improved SNP Genotype Calling for Affymetrix 10K GeneChip Microarray Data.
Anne Lee, a senior at Phoenix Country Day School in Paradise Valley, Arizona, and Albert Shieh, a junior at Chaparral High School in Scottsdale, Arizona, won the $100,000 prize for their work as interns at the Translational Genomics Research Institute in Phoenix, Arizona.
They developed improved genetic analysis software — which their genomics lab now uses — that enables more accurate and efficient identification of the genes underlying inherited disorders in humans. The team then used their software to pinpoint the mutated gene that causes a childhood degenerative disorder.
These students are obviously the cream of the cream of the crop, but there may still be hope for science education in the U.S.
Yahoo! Finance, December 5, 2005
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