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Show 'Teens Vie for Science Scholarships; Refugee Finalist in Action for U. S. where highly confidential research is being conducted. Another "laboratory "labora-tory soldier" is Wolf Karo, a refugee refu-gee from Germany. He ranked as a finalist in the first Search when he had been in this country only six years. Now enrolled at Cornell university, uni-versity, he's been employed by a physical chemist on the campus to aid in confidential research. In homes from California to New Jersey, 40 high school seniors are preparing for a free trip to Washington, Washing-ton, D. C, where they will meet some of the country's foremost scientists, sci-entists, educators, and high government govern-ment officials, and compete for $11,-000 $11,-000 in college scholarships. These 40 youngsters 12 of them girls have been chosen from 15,000 entrants in the third annual Science Sci-ence Talent Search to attend a five-day five-day Science Talent institute in Washington Wash-ington from March 3 to 7. They will be the guests of Science Clubs of America and the Westinghouse Electric Elec-tric and Manufacturing company, which jointly sponsor the annual quest for 'teen age girls and boys with a talent for science and help them to a college education. Interviews and final exams during dur-ing the institute will determine the award of two four-year scholarships worth $2,400 each to one boy and one girl, eight four-year scholarships of $400 and, at the discretion of the judges, up to ?3,000 in additional scholarships. Scholarships are held in trust for those entering the armed forces. Five states and the District of Columbia have produced finalists. They come from 90 different home towns with population ranging from less than 1,000 to more than 7,000,000. Their average age is 16 years, 8 months. Some of the finalists from the first and second Searches have already put their talents to work for Uncle Sam: Paul Cranefield of Lake Mills, Wis., is the only undergraduate permitted per-mitted to work in the University of Wisconsin's chemistry laboratory Wolf Karo, a refugee child from Germany only six years ago, turns his skill as a scientist to work for America's war effort. A finalist in the annual Science Talent Search, which aids science - minded high school seniors through award of Westinghouse Science Scholarships, he did research this summer at Cornell Cor-nell university. |
