Iowa City student-finalist for ‘junior Nobel Prize’ wins $20,000

Only 10 of the 40 finalists won scholarships. 

From Associated Press:

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A North Carolina high schooler beat out 1,600 others nationwide to win a $100,000 scholarship Tuesday for developing a model she used to identify stage II colon cancer patients at a high risk for recurrence. ...The other nine scholarship winners were Graham Van Schaik, 17, of Columbia, S.C., $75,000; Brian McCarthy, 18, of Hillsboro, Ore., $50,000; Katherine Banks, 17, of New York, $25,000; Eric Delgado, 18, of Bayonne, N.J., $25,000; David Rosengarten, 18, of Great Neck, N.Y., $25,000;

The other nine scholarship winners were Graham Van Schaik, 17, of Columbia, S.C., $75,000; Brian McCarthy, 18, of Hillsboro, Ore., $50,000; Katherine Banks, 17, of New York, $25,000; Eric Delgado, 18, of Bayonne, N.J., $25,000; David Rosengarten, 18, of Great Neck, N.Y., $25,000; Xiaomeng (Jessica) Zeng, 18, of Iowa City, Iowa, $20,000; ...