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FOR KIDS: Young scientists tackle abstract problems
Students’ independent, theoretical investigations produce real-world results
Web edition: October 25, 2012
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Dropped from a pipette, water droplets race across a heated hardware file. Studying this led to a theoretical investigation of why droplets do this.
Courtesy of Nilesh Tripuraneni
Building on inner passion is the best way to start a research
project, according to Dave Marker, chairman of a judging panel for the Intel Science Talent Search.
Theoretical projects exemplify these. Such projects are abstract, meaning that
they use mathematics to understand the relationships between objects. Most of
these projects investigate the physical world using known properties of
chemistry (how molecules react with one another) and physics (how energy and
matter interact). Here we focus on the pursuits of some teens who found a
passion in such theoretical research.
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