6 Silver Spring Students in Running for $100K Scholarship Prize

SILVER SPRING, MD — Six Montgomery Blair High School students are semi-finalists in the 2016 Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology. Winners in the national contest will get a piece of $500,000 in scholarship money, including the two top prizes, each worth $100,000.

The local students in the competition include Sambuddha Chattopadhyay, Guangqi Cui, Margaret Lin, Angela Yang, Robert Yang and Linden Yuan.

More than 1,600 projects were submitted for the math and science contest, with 498 selected as semi-finalists. That group will be narrowed further during regional competitions in November, before the national finals in Washington, D.C. in December.

Created in 1999 by the Siemens Foundation, the competition was established to provide more opportunities for talented students, while encouraging innovation and research, according to the organization's website.

"This competition seeks to recognize and build a strong pipeline for the nation’s most promising scientists, engineers and mathematicians," according to the site.

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