Girls dominate Siemens science contest but U.S. Teens Trail Peers Around World on Math-Science Test
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Isha Jain, a 16-year-old from Bethlehem, Pa., won a $100,000 scholarship as the individual winner in the Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology Monday in New York. Jain, a senior at Freedom High, identified a cellular mechanism underlying bone growth spurts, and her work was published in the journal Developmental Dynamics.
Girls swept the top awards at the ninth annual high school research competition, as 17-year-olds Janelle Schlossberger and Amanda Marinoff of Plainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High in Plainview, N.Y., split the $100,000 top team prize for their tuberculosis drug research.
"Math and science are traditionally male-dominated fields, but with women rising to the top, it shows that with hard work and dedication, women can be just as successful as males," Amanda says.
By Tracey Wong Briggs, USA TODAY
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U.S. Teens Trail Peers Around World on Math-Science Test
By Maria Glod Washington Post Staff Writer
The disappointing performance of U.S. teenagers in math and science on an international exam, in scores released yesterday, has sparked calls for improvement in public schools to help the country keep pace in the global economy.
The scores from the 2006 Program for International Student Assessment showed that U.S. 15-year-olds trailed their peers from many industrialized countries. The average science score of U.S. students lagged behind those in 16 of 30 countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a Paris-based group that represents the world's richest countries. The U.S. students were further behind in math, trailing counterparts in 23 countries.
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