Washington, D.C.—A Richmond student earned a
$30,000 scholarship for his electrical engineering project in the prestigious Siemens
Competition in Math, Science & Technology.
Saumil
Bandyopadhyay, a student at Maggie L. Walker Governor's School for Government
and International Studies, participated in the competition, held in Washington D.C.
His innovative project on electrical engineering secured a $30,000 scholarship
for Bandyopadhyay in the final round of the competition.
The top prize in the individual category went to Kensen Shi, a senior at A&M Consolidated
High School in College Station, Texas,
who won a $100,000 scholarship. Shi developed a new method to improve robot
motion planning.
Jeremy
Appelbaum, William Gil and Allen Shin, seniors at George
W. Hewlett
High School in Hewlett, New York,
will share the $100,000 Grand Prize in the Team category for investigating
COP1, a key protein in plants and animals.
The
fourteenth annual awards were presented Tuesday morning at George Washington
University, host of the
2012 Siemens Competition National Finals.
Copyright 2012 by Young
Broadcasting of Richmond
