<p>CONGRATS to the CC’ers (students and parents) who are represented on this list. Read through the bios of the 40 finalists. Their work is nothing less than AMAZING…</p>
<p>[2008</a> Intel Science Talent Search Winners Announced](<a href=“Newsroom Home”>Newsroom Home)</p>
<p>One of these students, Eric Delgado, was profiled in the NY Times last weekend because his path to glory was not the usual one:</p>
<p>“AT Bayonne, Maria Aloia, a physical science teacher who runs the science seminar, helped Mr. Delgado secure bacteria cultures and plant extracts and arranged telephone and e-mail consultations with scientists in California, Colorado and Arkansas. But he never met those mentors face to face. He did the research on his own, working out of a storage closet at the back of a science classroom where his equipment was not much more sophisticated than a centrifuge and an incubator.”</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/09Rintel.html?_r=1&scp=3&sq=delgado+eric&st=nyt&oref=slogin[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/09Rintel.html?_r=1&scp=3&sq=delgado+eric&st=nyt&oref=slogin</a></p>
<p>* remaining 30 finalists received $5,000 scholarships and a new laptop featuring the Intel® Core™2 Duo processor.*</p>
<p>So did they get a Macbook?</p>
<p>I saw the article in the NYTims about Mr. Delgado, what an impressive young man! As I recall, it said he would be matriculating at Princeton. Does the Intel result affect college admissions at this late date?</p>
<p>I suspect most of these have their pick of any of the schools they applied to…they are incredible! I look at what they’ve accomplished and my kids’ rather busy lives outside of school, and think, how did these kids have time to do this awesome stuff? My hat is off to them, for sure!</p>
<p>I’m glad Delgado won. It really seemed to me he reflected what Intel was meant to be, and not what it has become.</p>
<p>Dude, they’re getting a Dell…
Eric came in 5th place – we went to see the exhibition on Sunday, and his project presentation was very impressive. A genuinely nice guy, too.</p>
<p>I read that he has a twin brother who is the captain of the football team…are they identical?</p>
<p>I met Maria Aloia, Eric Delgado’s teacher, at Mariapolis Luninare in Hyde Park last autumn. She was setting up an exhibit on the water cycle, something that can pique the interest of only a hydrologist or hydrogeologist, and we got to talking. During the conversation she mentioned how excited she was to be mentoring a student in her school.</p>
<p>And presto, I read about him as being the Intel winner!!! Amazing.</p>
<p>A winner who worked out of a storage closet rather than a national laboratory, imagine that! 
Good for Mr. Delgado!</p>