TMCNet: Beaverton student places sixth at national Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology

[December 05, 2012]

Beaverton student places sixth at national Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology

Dec 04, 2012 (The Oregonian - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- Westview High student Raghav Tripathi brought home a $10,000 scholarship, but didn't win the national Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology.


In November, the 17-year-old won the Caltech Regional Siemens Competition and was one of six individuals and six teams from across the nation who competed at nationals in Washington, D.C. December 1-4.

Tripathi was the only competitor from Oregon at the regionals and nationals where he stepped in front of a panel of top scientists to explain his "painless painkiller.

Inspired by his mother's inability to take traditional pain medication, Tripathi came up with the idea to harness the body's natural pain killer, anandamide, rather than introduce a foreign substance into the body. Taken by pill or injection, the teenager's creation would inhibit the breakdown of anandamide.

Tripathi placed sixth in the individual competition.

A Texas student, Kensen Shi, won the $100,000 top individual prize for developing a new method to improve robot motion planning. And three students from New York will share the $100,000 prize in the team category for their work on a tumor-suppressing protein.

A total of 2,255 students entered the Siemens Competition. Of those, 322 were named semifinalists and 93 were regional finalists.

--Wendy Owen Follow @wowen1 ___ (c)2012 The Oregonian (Portland, Ore.) Visit The Oregonian (Portland, Ore.) at www.oregonian.com Distributed by MCT Information Services

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