Forty high school seniors were recently named finalists for the Intel Science Talent Search 2009 (Intel STS). The competition is America's oldest and most prestigious high school science competition.

This year's Intel STS finalists - hailing from 17 states and representing 35 schools - will travel to Washington, D.C. in March to compete for scholarships, meet with national leaders, interact with leading scientists and display their research at the National Academy of Sciences. The top winner will receive a $100,000 scholarship from the Intel Foundation. Each finalist will receive at least $5,000 in scholarships and a new laptop featuring the Intel® Core™2 Duo processor.

Arizona
Smitha Ramakrishna
Corona del Sol High in Tempe

California
Aniruddha Sandeep Deshmukh
Bellarmine College Preparatory School in San Jose

Nitish Lakhanpal
University High School in Irvine

Marianna Yuling Mao
Mission San Jose High School in Fremont

Julia Dory Ransohoff
Menlo Atherton High School in Atherton

Nilesh Tripuraneni
Clovis West High School in Fresno

Connecticut
Aditya Rajagopalan
Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford

Florida
Maxim Rabinovich
Shorecrest Preparatory School in St. Petersburg

Illinois
Elizabeth Jie Rao
Lincoln Park High School in Chicago

Eric Shyu
Illinois Mathematics & Science Academy in Aurora

Massachusetts
Noah Maxwell Arbesfeld
Lexington High School in Lexington

Minnesota
Michael Sheng Cherkassky
Edina High School in Edina

Stephen Walter Trusheim
Breck School in Golden Valley

Missouri
William Jayang Sun
Parkway Central High School in Chesterfield

New Jersey
Doris Chen
Tenafly High School in Tenafly

Radomir Kratchmarov
Livingston High School in Livingston

Hayden Craig Metsky
Millburn High School in Millburn

New York
Patrick Jeffrey Abejar
Smithtown High School West in Smithtown

Jocelyn Chuang
Bronx High School of Science in Bronx

Abigail Sara Greene
John Jay High School in Cross River

Chelsea Lynn Jurman
Roslyn High School in Roslyn Heights

Josepher Li
Bronx High School of Science in Bronx

Anissa Yuenming Mak
Stuyvesant High School in New York City

Adam Benjamin Sealfon
Stuyvesant High School in New York City

Preya Shah
Ward Melville High School in East Setauket

Christine Lee Shrock
Ward Melville High School in East Setauket

Ohio
Elizabeth Charlotte Coquillette
Hathaway Brown School in Shaker Heights

Caitlin Maureen Mann
Hathaway Brown School in Shaker Heights

Tong Zhan
William Mason High School in Mason

Oklahoma
Melissa Nicole Carvell
Bartlesville High School in Bartlesville

Oregon
Eric Kerner Larson
South Eugene High School in Eugene

Michael Loy
Oregon Episcopal School in Portland

Pennsylvania
Janet Song
Methacton High School in Norristown

Texas
Wen Chyan
Texas Academy of Mathematics & Science in Denton

Michael Tyler Wham
Sterling Ridge Home School in Woodlands

Virginia
Alexander Mee-Woong Kim
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology in Alexandria

Narendra Pundarik Tallapragada
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology in Alexandria

Wisconsin
Gabriela Aylin Faran
West High School in Madison

Suvai Gunasekaran
James Madison Memorial High School in Madison

Philip Vidal Streich
Home School in Platteville

Past STS Winners

Intel STS 2008 (PDF;2 pages)
Intel STS 2007 (PDF;3 pages)
Intel STS 2006 (PDF;20 pages)
Intel STS 2005 (PDF;25 pages)
Intel STS 2004 (PDF;45 pages)
Intel STS 2003 (PDF;7 pages)
Intel STS 2002 (PDF;3 pages)

Past STS Finalists

Intel STS 2008 (PDF;2 pages)