Student teams receive $100K in Siemens Competition

U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings announced the winners of the 2006-2007 Siemens Competition in Math, Science, and Technology at New York University’s Kimmel Center. The top prize of $100,000 went to the student team of Scott Molony, Steven Arcangeli, and Scott Horton of Oak Ridge High School in Oak Ridge, Tenn. The team developed a novel computational systems-biology methodology based on graph theory and statistical theory that could help bioengineers design an efficient ethanol-producing biological system.