Each year the Intel ISEF brings together more than 1000 students from all 50 states and 47 nations to compete for scholarships, tuition grants, internships, and scientific fields trips.
Finalists emerge from a field of about one million high school students who competed in local fairs.
The APS sponsored prizes at ISEF for the first time last year with the AAPT, and this year the two societies once again awarded three top prizes in physics plus three honorable mentions. The ISEF event was founded in 1950 by Science Services, a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the understanding and appreciation of science among people of all ages through publications and annual programs. ISEF is the only high school global science fair representing all life and physical science-from astronomy to zoology. Copyright 1999, The American Physical Society. The APS encourages the redistribution of the materials included in this newsletter provided that attribution to the source is noted and the materials are not truncated or changed.