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Discuss “Future scientists face off”

The Siemens Competition in Math, Science, and Technology is not a typical high school science fair. The event brings the brightest high school students from across the country together to showcase projects based on months of original, graduate-level research.

They’re also vying for a spot in the national finals, the winner of which receives $100,000.

This weekend, five individuals and five teams of students will compete at Carnegie Mellon for the chance to represent the region in the national competition. The students were chosen as Mid-Atlantic regional finalists out of a pool of 300 semifinalists.

The intricacies of their projects can stump even the judges, eight Carnegie Mellon professors in the Mellon College of Science and Carnegie...

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