On May 14, 2010, Amy Chyao, Kevin Ellis and Yale Fan earned top honors at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair 2010, the world’s largest pre-college science competition. Amy Chyao, 15, of Richardson, Texas, received $75,000 and the Gordon E. Moore Award, given for the first time in honor of Intel co-founder and retired chairman and CEO. Amy Chyao was awarded first place for her work to develop a photosensitizer for photodynamic therapy (PDT), an emerging cancer treatment which uses light energy to activate a drug that kills cancer cells.

Kevin Ellis, 18, of Vancouver, Wash. and Yale Fan, 18, of Beaverton, Ore. each received $50,000. Kevin developed a method to automatically speed up computer programs by analyzing the programs while they are running so that work could be divided across multiple microprocessors. Yale’s project demonstrated the advantages of quantum computing in performing difficult computations.

This year, more than 1,611 young scientists from 59 countries, regions and territories competed for more than $4 million in awards for their innovative research. Congratulations to all the participants at this year’s Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. You are an inspiration to many. Read more about the finals here.

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