Science Fair Season: Twelve Kids, a Robot Named Scorch... and What It Takes to Win (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781401323790)

This is the engaging true story of kids competing in the high-stakes, high-drama world of international science fairs. Every year the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair brings together 1,500 high schoolers from more than 50 countries to compete for over $4 million dollars in prizes and scholarships. These amazing kids are doing everything from creating bionic prosthetics to conducting groundbreaking stem cell research, from training drug-sniffing cockroaches to building a nuclear reactor. In Science Fair Season, Judy Dutton follows twelve teens looking for science fair greatness and tells the gripping stories of their road to the big competition. Some will win, some will lose, but all of their lives are changed forever.

The Intel International Science & Engineering Fair is the most prominent science fair in the country, and it takes a special blend of drive, heart, and smarts to win there. Dutton goes inside the inner sanctum of science fair competitions and reveals the awe-inspiring projects and the competitors there. Each of the kids -- ranging from a young Erin Brokovich who made the FBI watch list for taking on a big corporation, to a quietly driven boy who lives in a run-down trailer on a Navajo reservation, to a wealthy Connecticut girl who dreams of being an actress and finds her calling studying bees, to a troubled teenager in a juvenile detention facility, to the next Bill Gates--take readers on an unforgettable journey.

Along the way, Science Fair Season gives readers a glimpse of America's brightest young minds and shows how our country is still a place for inventors and dreamers--the "geeks" our future depends upon.

Author: Judy Dutton
ISBN-10: 1401323790
ISBN-13: 9781401323790
Publisher: Hachette Books
Language: English
Published: 04/19/2011
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.83w x 0.91d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 02/15/2011
Booklist 04/01/2011 pg. 9
Publishers Weekly 02/14/2011