[wafflehouse]

...culminating in second place in the International Intel Science and Engineering Fair...

SECOND PLACE?? what won first place??

[TomServo]

Makes you wonder, doesn't it?

[Paul Atreides]

what won first place??

Probably, something celebrating multiculturalism.

[sockmonkey]

I loved this article. I read it earlier over at Trixie's site, but was too lazy to post it here. It's like junkyard wars meets physics. Too Cool.

[Brett66]

[Bogey78O]

' what won first place?? '

First place doesn't exist. Do not talk of this.

[JOE6PAK]

I think it was the guy that made a bookend out of a shoebox and a brick.

[maui_hawaii]

Junkyard War!!!

[TheBigB]

Real Genius bump!

[Rennes Templar]

Farnsworth died in '71 and was from Utah. Wallace (around 18 yrs. and in Utah) could be Farnsworth reincarnated, ready to resume where he left off. Of course, I guess not too many Mormons believe in the perfectionment of the soul through re-embodiment.

[Sooner78]

I wouldn't take this article too serious until someone with a physics degree from somewhere other than Utah certifies it as credible. Smells of really bad science to me.

[Spirited]

Bump for young people and their supportive parents.
Notice that it wasn't the school that prompted this.

[Semi Civil Servant]

They found a neutron detector in an Idaho Falls scrap metal yard.

I wonder if that scrap yard had a calendar with naughty pictures of Madame Curie on the wall.

[Mears]

God,when my boys were that age I thought they were great when they put on my snow tires.(A while ago,obviously)

[Cicero]

what won first place??

If I tell you I'll have to kill you.

[El Gato]

I wouldn't get too close to that thing, it likely emits lots of x-rays too. There was an article in Analog (Science Fiction/Science Fact magazine) some years ago describing such a reactor. Not really all that hard to build, but definitely a challenging science fair project, and way cool to.

SECOND PLACE?? what won first place??

I suspect it got second place because the first place entry showed more originality and/or better illustrated the scientific process.

[Mark Felton]

Utah's own Philo Farnsworth, the inventor of television.

John Logie Baird -- 1888-1946 is considered the original inventor of televison (albeit a different technology than the all electronic tube)

[Held_to_Ransom]

what won first place??

What else? A perpetual motion machine. It will be on the market just as soon as the Feds can determine it's life cycle by testing.

[Young Werther]

The Intel Science Fair has multiple awards and categories:

He didn't actually come in "SECOND"

Physics - Presented by Intel Foundation Intel will present Best of Category Winners with a $5,000 scholarship and a high-performance computer. Additionally, a $1,000 grant will be given to their school and the Intel ISEF Affiliated fair they represent.

Intel ISEF Best of Category Award of $5,000 for Top First Place Winner

PH053 Chaotic Fluids: An Examination of Phase Transitions in Taylor-Couette Flow Mairead Mary McCloskey, 17, Loreto College, Coleraine, Co Derry, Northern Ireland

First Award of $3,000 PH029 Is Eating Blueberry Pie Bad for You? Jennifer Anne D'Ascoli, 17, Academy of the Holy Names, Albany, New York

PH053 Chaotic Fluids: An Examination of Phase Transitions in Taylor-Couette Flow Mairead Mary McCloskey, 17, Loreto College, Coleraine, Co Derry, Northern Ireland

Second Award of $1,500 PH005 The Effect of Salinity on the Production and Duration of Antibubbles Michael J. Pizer, 14, University School of Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

PH040 Magnetoplasmadynamics: Ionization and Magnetic Field Ray Chengchuan He, 19, Hempfield High School, Landisville, Pennsylvania

This is our boy. Chaotice Fluids "First"

PH046 Nuclear Fusion Reactor Apparatus Craig J. Wallace, 18, Spanish Fork High School, Spanish Fork, Utah

[Paradox]

Sweet! I remember reading about Philo and his fusion dreams on the Internet, and filed it away in my head as one of those things I would try to build some day. Its great that a guy this young would do it! He could be our new Edison.

[thegreatbeast]

The thing has been crawled over by all manner of scientists- it's safe.
The reporter is a dolt though:"It took two years of gathering materials and six months of assembly, but the final product actually, incongruously, works." After all that work and effort put in by a real bright kid, it was supposed to fail? Maroon!