Students win science competition
Published: Sun, Nov. 23, 2008 12:30AM
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closeTwo students at the N.C. School of Science and Math will take their science project next month to a competition in New York City, for the chance to win $100,000 in scholarships.
Sajith Wickramasekara of Raleigh and Andrew Guo of Cary on Saturday won the team contest at the Atlanta regional of the Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology. Now the students will take their project, which aims to use genetics to improve chemotherapy treatments, to the national finals.
For winning in Atlanta, Sajith and Andrew will share a $6,000 scholarship.
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The students presented their work to a panel of judges at Georgia Tech University, which hosted the competition.
In a written statement announcing the students' win, Dr. Kostas Konstantinidis, a Georgia Tech professor, praised the depth of the project's research. "Their approach has the potential to identify novel treatments that could lead the way to personalized medicine in the future."
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