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300-Year-Old Newton's Puzzle Solved By 16-Year-Old
"A German 16-year-old, Shouryya Ra, solved two fundamental particle dynamic theories posed by Sir Isaac Newton, which until recently required the use of powerful computers. He worked out how to calculate exactly the path of a projectile under gravity and subject to air resistance. Shouryya solved the problem while working on a school project. From the article: 'Mr Ray won a research award for his efforts and has been labeled a genius by the German media, but he put it down to "curiosity and schoolboy naivety." "When it was explained to us that the problems had no solutions, I thought to myself, 'well, there's no harm in trying,'" he said.'"  5-27-12  slashdot

Intel ISEF 2012 top winners announced!
A Maryland student was awarded the top prize at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair on Friday for developing a urine and blood test that detects pancreatic cancer with 90 percent accuracy. Jack Andraka, 15, claimed the $75,000 prize for his test, which is roughly 28 times cheaper and faster, and over 100 times more sensitive than current tests. Each year, approximately 7 million high school students around the globe develop original research projects and present their work at local science fairs with the hope of winning.  slashdot  5-21-12

14-year-old phenom makes U.S. snowboarding team >
Fourteen-year-old Ty Walker was among the athletes named to the first U.S. Snowboarding slopestyle pro team... Walker (a competitor since 2006 in halfpipe and slopestyle) is one of the up-and-coming stars in the sport... The IOC announced in July that slopestyle snowboarding and skiing and halfpipe skiing would be added to the Olympic program for the 2014 Sochi Games. ~ USA Today via My Little Planet  12-10-11 [Ed. Note: Slopestyle snowboarding has also been added to the 2012 Winter Youth Olympic Games in January.]


< 17-Year-Old Wins $100K For Creating Cancer Killing Nanoparticle
17-year-old Angeloa Zhang was recently awarded the $100,000 Grand Prize in the Individual category of the Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology. Her project was entitled 'Design of Image-guided, Photo-thermal Controlled Drug Releasing Multifunctional Nanosystem for the Treatment of Cancer Stem Cells.' ...The creation is the so-called 'Swiss army knife of cancer treatment,' which allows a nanoparticle to be delivered to a tumor where it proceeds to kills cancer stem cells.  slashdot   12-8-11

Teenager Builds $300 Open Source Eye-Tracking System >
Developed by a 17-year-old electronics and programming whiz from Honduras, the Eyeboard system is a low-tech eyeball-tracking device that allows users with motor disabilities to enter text into a computer using eye gestures instead of a physical interface. This kind of system is not unique — there's plenty of eye tracking interfaces out there — but Luis Cruz has figured out a way to build the full system into a set of glasses for less than US$300, putting easier communication within reach of users in developing countries. He's also releasing the software as open source to speed up development.  slashdot   11-18-11

< 13-y-o makes solar breakthrough
A 13-year-old boy recently came up with a breakthrough discovery for the field of solar energy! While hiking through the Catskills, seventh grader Aidan Dwyer was not snapping and throwing tree branches but studying their tangled pattern high about his head. He came up with a theory for the way that tree branches grow based on the Fibonnacci sequence and tested it by building a miniature solar energy generating tree that produces 20% - 50% more power than a flat solar array. The youngster has earned himself the Young Naturalist Award from the American Museum of Natural History, a provisional U.S. patent, and lots of phone calls from interested commercial solar companies -- all before the school year begins! Read more...  ~ Inhabitots  8-19-11

Teen Builds Nuclear Bomb Detector  >
"An enterprising teenage boy named Taylor Wilson, 17, has created a homemade, hand-held nuclear bomb detector. It utilizes a small fusion reactor that he made when he was 14, and detects nuclear materials by shooting neutrons at closed containers and exciting any nuclear materials inside — which, in turn, causes more radiation to be produced, and is detected by the device. This may provide a simpler, more effective alternative to searching containers visually, one-at-a-time. No information is given about how safe such a practice is. Taylor also has some choice things to say about how science is, in fact, very cool." slashdot   6-18-11

< 13-year-old Laurence Rook has invented a new doorbell.  What's so special about a doorbell? This one lets you answer the door from wherever you can receive a call from its embedded 3G chip; to your in-person caller (facing the doorbell); that means it sounds like you're answering the door over an intercom system, even if you're really across town.Pretty clever way to make it harder for a thief to know if a home is actually occupied, though Rook says that he initially just wanted a system to avoid missed packages.   slashdot  3-28-11

Jacob Barnett is a math genius who taught himself calculus, algebra, geometry and trigonometry in a week and now tutors fellow college classmates after hours. Mastering many college level astrophysics courses by the age of 8, he's working on his most ambitious project to date: His own expanded version of Einstein's theory of relativity.     3-28-11

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