{"id":587,"date":"2008-05-15T06:33:03","date_gmt":"2008-05-15T10:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=587"},"modified":"2008-08-06T21:59:49","modified_gmt":"2008-08-07T01:59:49","slug":"when-teens-play-with-stem-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=587","title":{"rendered":"When teens play with stem cells"},"content":{"rendered":"

Congratulations to these inspiring teens for kicking butt at one heck of a demanding science competition recently: Top teen scientists seek real-world solutions in their research<\/a><\/p>\n

The Orlando Science Center [link<\/a>] held the 10th Dr. Nelson Ying Science Competition on April 26 and 27.<\/p>\n

Not your everyday science fair with exploding volcanoes of baking soda or test tubes filled with colored water, this competition requires high-school students to present research, which must have an altruistic application, in front of a judges’ panel of scientists, engineers and educators.<\/p>\n

This year’s pool of 28 applicants was narrowed to five: Damien Denis, 17, a senior at Edgewater High School; Mansfield Burlingame, 17, a junior at Lake Brantley High School; Halei Benefield, 17, a junior at Spruce Creek High School; Noel Turner, 16, a junior at Satellite Beach High School and Gordon Wilson, 16, a junior at Spruce Creek High School.<\/p>\n

Although barely old enough to drive and still too young to vote, all tackled larger-than-life issues, from Gordon’s research on developing a supernutritious plant with the ability to fight cancer to Halei’s findings on generating alternative energy from wastewater to the winning project, Noel’s research on stem cells.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Congratulations to these inspiring teens for kicking butt at one heck of a demanding science competition recently: Top teen scientists seek real-world solutions in their research The Orlando Science Center [link] held the 10th Dr. Nelson Ying Science Competition on … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-9t","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":188,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=188","url_meta":{"origin":587,"position":0},"title":"Students experiencing bioscience field","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"March 28, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"As the bioscience career field picks up speed worldwide and right here in Florida, it becomes more and more important to cultivate our own future scientists. 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