Smart Kids
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- a-train
Damn, these kids are going to save up all in the end.
its just insane how smart they are... jesus...
- tkmeister0
first, they could be my interns. then they go ahead and save the world.
- mayo0
shit. i'm going to watch the Jerry Springer show now to feel better about myself :\
- brooke0
See? There's hope for humanity after all.
- version30
lets hope they dont wander into this place
- a-train0
lol. nasa needs to lock them into a clean room so they dont get "contaminated"
- mevsthem0
SUE WE SUE WE SUE WE!
-homer j. simpson.
- version30
we are smart as well. a nifty image on intel.com doesn't create people like einstein
pascii
(Mar 27 05, 02:43)
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maybe you didnt read the article
soFirst-Place Winner
David Lawrence Vigliarolo Bauer of the Bronx, New York, received first-place honors and a $100,000 scholarship at the black-tie gala in Washington, D.C. The 17-year-old senior from Hunter College High School developed a sensor for rapidly detecting individual exposure to toxic biochemical agents, such as nerve gas. His idea could save lives by allowing first-responders to quickly assess and treat patients for exposure to a variety of neurotoxins.Bauer compares his biosensor to "a battery and a light bulb." In this case, the batteries are fluorescent nanocrystals known as quantum dots. "The sensor detects neurotoxin exposure with light. The neurotoxin basically flips the switch, and you can detect the light differences instantly and easily. The trick was designing that universal switch. Would the switch still function, once you stuck everything onto it? The answer turned out to be yes." Bauer had to work on a "tiny scale" to create the components that make his system work. "It had to be precise and meticulous. I think of chemistry as cooking—you have to add the right amounts in the right order. So this was like fancy French cooking."
Developing the sensor required him to apply his understanding of chemistry, biophysics, mathematics, and computer modeling, areas in which he had basic knowledge but not the detailed insights needed to unravel such a complex problem. The summer before his junior year, he managed to talk his way into a lab at the City College of New York. Dr. Valeria Balogh-Nair, the chemistry professor who became his mentor, was not accustomed to taking in high school interns. "But she didn't hold it against me that I was still in high school. She gave me the opportunity to prove myself," he says.
- jox0
Neeeeerds!
- ********0
Well, I dont see how his invention, a nerve gas sensor, is going to save the world. There are scientists in the same field 10 years or so older than him making similar inventions all the time. I guess being 10 years younger makes him somewhat special, but it doesnt make his invention any special at all.
Those kids are very few, you just mentioned one
- pascii0
just wanted to point that we are not less than them
- vburo0
haha, no they are.
nerds!!
*points finger
- pascii0
i hate it when people think, they are 'those who forget the sportbag in school' besides 'the cool smart kids'