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Offline gofaster

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Re: Strangeness at work today
« Reply #15 on: May 06, 2004, 10:14:54 AM »
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The guy is 16 years old living here in Calgary. He's got a harsh Russian name - Vladislav something, but speaks english like he's lived here all his life. He developed a way (and this is where it all eludes me) to extract 30% more oil that would have been lost/wasted under current extraction methods. Oil sands.


Ask him who's the better hottie in the "Street Fighter" series, Chun Li or Cammy.

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Strangeness at work today
« Reply #16 on: May 14, 2004, 08:17:46 PM »
Update:

The winners were announced today.

Turns out he won Best of Category: Biochemistry
   
Intel ISEF Best of Category Award for Top First Place Winner :

BI031  Directed Evolution of Hydrocarbon Utilizing Bacteria
Vladislav Igorevich Lavrovsky, 17, Queen Elizabeth Senior High School, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Congrats Vladislav, you freak! :aok

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« Reply #17 on: May 14, 2004, 08:22:35 PM »
Below are the people/projects that he beat.

Man.... In my day I thought I was king ***** for making a paper mache Volcano. Look at what these kids are up to.

BI050  Characterization of Mus81/Mms4's Role in Homologous DNA Repair During S-Phase Mitotic Cellular Division
Shamsher Singh Samra, 17, Clovis West High School, Fresno, California

Second Award of $1,500  
BI025  Bean Beacons
Janet Michelle Freilich, 16, Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School, Vancouver, BC, Canada

BI034  A Comparative Anatomy of the Effect of Permethrin Concentrations on Lumbricus sp. Using Photomicrography
Ryan Michael Wisnoski, 17, Crescent City High School, Crescent City, Florida

BI056  The Effect of Plant Polyphenols Ameliorating Oxidative Stress in NGF-Beta Differentiated PC-12 Cells
Daniel Shing-shun Tse, 18, David H. Hickman High School, Columbia, Missouri

BI067  R-Cognin Mediates Aggregation via Free Cell Surface Sulfhydryls
Shantanu Kadir Gaur, 17, Bethel Park Senior High School, Bethel Park, Pennsylvania

Third Award of $1,000  
BI004  The Characterization of Human Epidermal Stem Cells
Stefan Vitorovic, 19, Blanche Ely High School, Pompano Beach, Florida

BI006  Designing Organic Blockers Which Mitigate Protein Ligand Binding Between HIV-1 and CD4+T Cells
Frank Michael Selb, 16, Astronaut High School, Titusville, Florida

BI018  Uridine Phosphorylase Substrate Specificity: New Methods and Prospects
Alexandra N. Zakharova, 16, Moscow Chemical Lyceum #1303, Moscow, Russia

BI053  SmartGEN siRNA Libraries: Bridging the Gap Between RNAi Technology and Human Gene Therapy
Josh Max Silverman, 16, North Shore High School, Glen Head, New York

BI060  The Effects of Amphipathic Esters of Ticrynafen on Intraocular Pressure
Ishani Sud, 17, North Carolina School of Science and Math, Durham, North Carolina

BI061  Isolating Regions of Amino Acids in Proteins with Significant Structural Backbone Flexibility
Tarak Jagdish Upadhyaya, 17, Southside High School, Greenville, South Carolina

BI066  The Role of Brassinosteroids in Root-Cell Differentiation in Arabidopsis thaliana
Edith Adriana Pierre-Jerome, 17, Mount Miguel High School, Spring Valley, California

Fourth Award of $500  
BI010  Indole-3-Carbinol Protects Normal Neuronal Cells (HCN-1) and Kills Brain Cancer Cells (SK-N) by Downregulating Clyclooxygenase-2 and Nuclear Factor KAPPA B: In vitro Analyses
Lascelles Ewen Lyn-Cook, 18, Little Rock Hall High School, Little Rock, Arkansas

BI016  Screening HIV Reverse Transcriptase(RT) Inhibitors from Edible and Medicinal Mushrooms
Jianbin Wang, 18, High School Attached to Peking University, Beijing, Beijing, China

 BI022  An Evaluation of the Effects of Temperature Increase and High Energy Photon Beams on Drosophila melanogaster
Parijata Desiree Mackey, 16, Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High School, Miami, Florida

BI023  Pre-emergent Stress on Sorghum Halepense Seed
Adam Kenneth Judy, 16, Moorefield High School, Moorefield, West Virginia
 
BI027  A Rapid Immunoassay for Denatured b-lactoglobulin: An Indicator for the Quality Control of Processed Milk
Tzu Yi Peng, 16, National Hsinchu Girls High School, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Taiwan

BI037  Bioluminescence of Dinoflagellates
Austin Andrew Chick, 17, Hanford High School, Richland, Washington

BI040  Proliferation and Differentiation of Adult Rat Bone Marrow Stem Cells When Co-cultured with Rat Hepatocytes
Joanne Ming-Li Ho, 18, Raffles Junior College, Singapore, Singapore

BI051  3D Structural Physiology of Immune Synapses as Determined by Electron Tomography and Computational Image Analysis
David Aaron Germain, 16, Winston Churchill High School, Potomac, Maryland