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Show Scientifically Inclined U. S. Youths Will Be Awarded Scholarships 'Talent Search' Helps High School Students Having Science Ability Talented high school girls and boys throughout the United States will be helped to a college education educa-tion and an opportunity to develop their scientific ability as a result of the nation-wide annual Science Talent Tal-ent Search now being carried on. Forty of the most promising young scientists in America will be named as delegates to the Science Talent Institute, February Febru-ary 21-25, in Washington, with all expenses paid. At least ten w ill be awarded scholarships ranging rang-ing in value from $400 to $2,500. The Annual Science Talent Search, which will throw the spotlight on the boys and girls upon whom America depends for scientific leadership lead-ership in the future, is being conducted con-ducted by Science Clubs of America, Amer-ica, a scientific organization inter-ested inter-ested in young people. The scholar- ships are provided by the Westing- Nr house Electric & Manufacturing company. com-pany. This is the second annual Science Talent Search. Last year's winners, about hall of whom came from villages vil-lages and farms, are all in college now. Many received offers of at least one additional scholarship from colleges and universities and several were offered as many as three scholarships. schol-arships. Another 260 promising young scientists received honorable mention. Virtually all of these-youngsters these-youngsters also received scholarships scholar-ships as a result of their showing. John William Michener, 18, of Pittsburgh, a prizewinner whose talent in radio was revealed in last year's search, was assigned by the navy to do confidential radio research last summer. He completed the assignment and enrolled this fall at Carnegie Institute In-stitute of Technology. Marina Prajmovsky, 18, of Farm-ingdale, Farm-ingdale, Long Island, New York, girl-winner girl-winner of top honors last year, received re-ceived numerous offers of scholarships scholar-ships including one of $400 from Rad-cliffe Rad-cliffe college, Cambridge, Mass., where she is now studying to be a bio-chemist. Marina was born in Finland of Russian parents and came to this country at the age of four. Another of last year's $2,400 scholarships schol-arships went to Paul Erhard Teschan of Shorewood, Wis. Paul, son of a lieutenant colonel now on foreign duty with the army, is a freshman at Carleton college, Northfield, Minn., where he is' studying zoology and chemistry. - Any boy or girl who is now a senior (12th grade) in any high school in continental United States and who did not compete in the first annual Science Talent Search, is eligible eli-gible to enter the competition this ' year. |