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Top 15 finalists from Google's international Science Fair

Summary: Google's Science Fair came to a close today with participants from three age groups (all in their teens) flown in from all over the world. Here's a look at the top 15 entries this year.

By Rachel King | July 11, 2011 -- 12:30 GMT (05:30 PDT)

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RE: Top 15 finalists from Google's international Science Fair

Not surprised to see the usual U.S.A bias in one of these supposedly "International" events. Only three of the top 15 are from outside of the US.

netsurfau
11 July, 2011 16:39

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- Or, maybe the U.S.A. has a culture that encourages
  
  individuality and inventiveness. Nah. It couldn't be that. That would mean your country has a problem. Much easier to just claim it's bigotry and excuse away your problems.
  
  fr_gough
  12 July, 2011 06:40
  
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RE: Top 15 finalists from Google's international Science Fair

It's good to hear about the children and even note one from here in San Diego is doing well in the competition.<br> Maybe one day we sill see a magnetic train with a permanent north and south inside the chassis of the train that allows a magnetically swithed track to switch the poles, thus propelling the train at speeds we normally would not dream of. <br>It is possible, exampled by automatic tranfer switchs to induce lower to higher amerage fields or even switch the track's coils using a processer such as a 66 MHZ amd.<br>Congratulations Daniel Arnold and the same goes for the others.

gradkiss
12 July, 2011 15:37

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RE: Top 15 finalists from Google's international Science Fair

Most likely there was insufficient publicity in the international circuit to get the entries.

Steve__Jobs
13 July, 2011 02:51

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