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Triangle students advance in science contest

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DURHAM -- Two Triangle high school students have each won $3,000 and a chance to compete for the country's most prestigious science prize for teens.

Lanair Lett of Henderson, who attends the N.C. School of Science and Mathematics in Durham, and Yekaterina Shpanskaya, a home-schooled student in Raleigh, took home top regional prizes Friday in Atlanta in the 2009 Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology.

Lett and Shpanskaya will now compete in New York City for the $100,000 grand prize in December.

The Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology is a program of the Siemens Foundation, which provides more than $7 million to educational initiatives in the United States.

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