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Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Isha Jain - Young Indian American who rocks (CNN)

CNN Profiles Isha Jain in the category "Young People WHO Rock". Wow! what a talented girl. Isha who is a junior at Freedom High School, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania is described by her teachers as the type of student they find once in their lifetime if they are fortunate. Here's what CNN writes:
In the fifth grade, she started a math camp. By sixth grade, Jain was breezing through college-level work and trigonometry classes. When she was in the eighth grade, she aced advanced calculus.

Her taste for science started at 9 when she created a paradigm to explain the molecular structure of candy. It sounds sweet, but also sophisticated -- teachers in the U.S. and abroad have used her methods in the classroom. Before she was old enough to buy sweets at a PG-13 movie, her candy-making findings were featured at major scientific summits.

Recently, 16-year-old Isha used both skill sets to identify what causes growth spurts. Not only did she think her findings were cool, but so did the journal "Developmental Dynamics," which published her work. The Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology went beyond just the thinking: It gave her a cool $100,000 scholarship.
Congratulations Isha!!

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1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Simply Amazing!!!

8:07 AM  

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