SCIENCE REPORT - Intel Science Talent Search

SCIENCE REPORT - March 28, 2002: Intel Science Talent Search

By Nancy Steinbach

Starting April 3, two new programs will take the place of Science Report:

-- On Wednesdays, Health Report will describe new research and information about staying healthy
and treating disease¹.

-- On Thursdays, Education Report will explore educational issues and news about teaching² and
learning³ in the United States and other countries.

This is the VOA Special English Science Report.

A teen-age boy from the state of Colorado has won the top prize in the Intel Science Talent Search. The
competition is the oldest program in the United States that honors⁴ the science projects of high school students.
The Intel Science Talent Search is sixty-one years old this year.

The winners receive a new computer and money for a college education. More than one-thousand-five-hundred
students entered projects for the competition this year. The students came from thirty-one states, the District of
Columbia and Guam. Forty-eight per cent were female⁵. Fifty-two percent were male. Their research projects
involved nearly every area of science, including chemistry, physics, mathematics, engineering⁶, social science and
medicine.

Forty students were invited to Washington D.C. for the final judging. Ten of the top winners were born outside
the United States. Five were born in China. Two were born in India. The others were born in Estonia, Belarus and
Israel. Well-known scientists judged them on their research abilities and creative thinking. They also questioned
the students about scientific problems before deciding on the top ten winners.

The top winner was eighteen-year-old Ryan Patterson of Grand Junction⁷, Colorado. He received one-hundredthousand dollars for his college education. He invented a device⁸ that changes American Sign Language into
written words on a small screen. The invention has won prizes in other science contests. Ryan says he wants to
continue developing electronic devices⁹ that can improve peoples’ lives.

The second place winner was seventeen-year-old Jacob Licht (pronounced likt) of West
Hartford, Connecticut. He received seventy-five-thousand dollars for a mathematics project
that studied the Rainbow Ramsey Theory. It involves the idea that order must exist within
disorder¹⁰.

The third place winner was seventeen-year-old Emily Riehl (pronounced reel) of
Bloomington, Illinois. She received fifty-thousand dollars. Her mathematics project studied
an algebraic structure called the Coxeter group.

Intel official Craig Barrett praised all the students as future scientific leaders. He said they

will play an important part in curing diseases¹¹, protecting the environment and developing new computer

technologies.

This VOA Special English Science Report was written by Nancy Steinbach.

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1 disease   

n.疾病，弊端

参考例句：

• The doctors are trying to stamp out the disease.医生正在尽力消灭这种疾病。
• He fought against the disease for a long time.他同疾病做了长时间的斗争。

2 teaching   

n.教学，执教，任教，讲授；(复数)教诲

参考例句：

• We all agree in adopting the new teaching method. 我们一致同意采取新的教学方法。
• He created a new system of teaching foreign languages.他创造了一种新的外语教学体系。

3 learning   

n.学问，学识，学习；动词learn的现在分词

参考例句：

• When you are learning to ride a bicycle,you often fall off.初学骑自行车时，常会从车上掉下来。
• Learning languages isn't just a matter of remembering words.学习语言不仅仅是记些单词的事。

4 honors   

n.礼仪；荣典；礼节； 大学荣誉学位；大学优等成绩；尊敬( honor的名词复数 )；敬意；荣誉；光荣

参考例句：

• He aims at honors. 他力求名誉。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• We did the last honors to his remains. 我们向他的遗体告别。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 female   

adj.雌的，女(性)的；n.雌性的动物，女子

参考例句：

• We only employ female workers.我们只雇用女工。
• The animal in the picture was a female elephant.照片上的动物是头母象。

6 engineering   

n.工程，工程学，管理，操纵

参考例句：

• The science of engineering began as soon as man learned to use tools. 人类一学会使用工具,工程科学就开始了。
• It was the first great engineering works in the world. 这是世界上第一家大型的工程工厂。

7 junction   

n.连接，接合；交叉点，接合处，枢纽站

参考例句：

• There's a bridge at the junction of the two rivers.两河的汇合处有座桥。
• You must give way when you come to this junction.你到了这个路口必须让路。

8 device   

n.器械，装置；计划，策略，诡计

参考例句：

• The device will be in production by the end of the year.该装置将于年底投入生产。
• The device will save much time and effort for us.这种装置会使我们节省大量时间和气力。

9 devices   

n.设备；装置( device的名词复数 )；花招；（为实现某种目的的）计划；手段

参考例句：

• electrical labour-saving devices around the home 节省劳力的各种家用电器
• modern labour-saving devices such as washing machines and dishwashers 诸如洗衣机和洗碗机之类的现代化省力设备

10 disorder   

n.紊乱，混乱；骚动，骚乱；疾病，失调

参考例句：

• When returning back,he discovered the room to be in disorder.回家后，他发现屋子里乱七八糟。
• It contained a vast number of letters in great disorder.里面七零八落地装着许多信件。

11 diseases   

n.疾病( disease的名词复数 )；弊端；恶疾；痼疾

参考例句：

• Smoking is a causative factor in several major diseases. 抽烟是引起几种严重疾病的病因。
• The illness frequently coexists with other chronic diseases. 这种病往往与其他慢性病同时存在。