{"id":508,"date":"2011-07-14T16:57:56","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T23:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/womengs\/wordpress\/?p=508"},"modified":"2011-07-14T16:57:56","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T23:57:56","slug":"females-sweep-the-science-fair-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/womengs\/wordpress\/2011\/07\/females-sweep-the-science-fair-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Females sweep the science fair awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three young women have swept all categories of the first annual Google Science Fair with biomedical research projects. Here&#8217;s a brief summary of the prize winning projects:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lauren Hodge (13 &#8211; 14 age group) studied the effect of marinades on levels of harmful carcinogens in grilled chicken.<\/li>\n<li>Naomi Shah (15 &#8211; 16 age group) studied the effect of indoor air quality on the need for medication in asthma sufferers.<\/li>\n<li>Shree Bose (17 &#8211; 18 age group) developed a way to improve ovarian cancer treatment for patients resistant to other chemotherapy drugs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Each of the prizewinners received a scholarship, a lifetime (digital) subscription to <em>Scientific American<\/em>, and an internship at Google, LEGO, or CERN. For more information, <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/hats-off-to-winners-of-inaugural-google.html\">read the official announcement from Google.<\/a> Does my excitement mean that I wanted boys to fail at the science fair? No! It just means that I&#8217;m happy there are fewer barriers to success for teenage girls who are interested in science. Additionally, I&#8217;m gratified that these biomedical projects beat out projects from all other areas of science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three young women have swept all categories of the first annual Google Science Fair with biomedical research projects. Here&#8217;s a brief summary of the prize winning projects: Lauren Hodge (13 &#8211; 14 age group) studied the effect of marinades on levels of harmful carcinogens in grilled chicken. Naomi Shah (15 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[26],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/womengs\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/womengs\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/womengs\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/womengs\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/womengs\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/womengs\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":509,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/womengs\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions\/509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/womengs\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/womengs\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/womengs\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<br />
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