INTEL INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING FAIR 2011 – LOS ANGELES USA

Nine of South Africa’s brightest young scientists, who all excelled during the 2010 Eskom Expo for Young Scientists’ national finals, will be leaving South Africa to attend the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF) that will take place in Los Angeles from Sunday, May 8 to Friday, May 13.

Regarded as the world’s largest international pre-college science competition for learners in grades 9–12, the fair provides an annual opportunity for more than 1,600 high school students from 65 countries, regions, and territories to display their independent engineering and science projects. At stake in the competition is US$4-million in awards and scholarships.

The South African contingent of young scientists would be composed of Juan Snyman of Southdowns College Irene; Alessio Pio Giurich of Bishops Diocesan College, Cape Town; Monique Gerber of Waterkloof Hoer Skool, Pretoria; Du Toit Viljoen, Duinveld High School, Uppington; Danielle Elizabeth Boer of St Dominic Academy, Newcastle; Schalk du Plessis Burger and Peter Ramey of St John’s College, Johannesburg; and Theinus Lodewyk Steyn of Nelspruit Hoerskool, Nelspruit.

In Los Angeles they will participate in several of the seventeen technical categories, which range from microbiology and plant sciences to mathematical sciences and behavioural and social sciences.