News on girls succeeding in science and technology, quoted from the newsletter of the National Council for Research on Women:
For the first time, girls have swept the top honors of the Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology. One of the nation’s most coveted student science awards, over 1,600 students nationwide entered the competition and 20 finalists were selected to receive scholarships ranging from $10,000 to $100,000. Eleven of the finalists were girls, marking this year as the first time that girls outnumbered boys in the final round.
“These strong results only reaffirm what was highlighted in our report Balancing the Equation: Where Are Women and Girls in Science, Engineering, and Technology. Research shows that girls have as much innate ability as boys to succeed in science, math, and technology, provided they are given sufficient opportunities and support programs,” said Council President Linda Basch.
Honorees included Janelle Schlossberger and Amanda Marinoff from Plainview, NY who took first prize in the team category for creating a molecule that helps block the reproduction of drug-resistant tuberculosis bacteria; Isha Himani Jain, from Bethlehem, PA, took first place in the individual category for her studies of bone growth in zebra fish. Other winners included Alicia Darnell from Pelham, NY who won second place for research that identified genetic defects that could play a role in the development of Lou Gehrig’s disease and the team of Naomi Collipp and Caroline Lang from Yardley, PA, and Rebecca Ehrhardt, from Hamilton Square, NJ, who placed fifth for their research on E. coli bacteria.
For more information about the Siemens prize, visit: http://www.siemens-foundation.org/en/
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