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{SPEAKER name="Neil Nininger"}
This is Neil Nininger, 18, from from Tamalpais High School, Mill Valley, California.

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{SPEAKER name="Neil Nininger"}
Science intrigues my imagination and in my reading of chemistry and physics, I've followed any interesting paths of inquiry. In my backyard shop, I found a modern frontier.

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{SPEAKER name="Neil Nininger"}
I have a forged spark coil, which started me on the line of experimentation, which has led me to my Westinghouse Science Talent Search placing.

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{SPEAKER name="Neil Nininger"}
With a simple hand-vacuum pump and my spark coil, I made glow discharges in rarefied gases, like a neon sign.

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{SPEAKER name="Neil Nininger"}
It was an exciting experiment and easily done. By connecting a test tube to the hand-vacuum pump, and holding the spark wires up to the glass I got a purple glow in the tube.

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{SPEAKER name="Neil Nininger"}
That was the starting point for many more experiments.

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{SPEAKER name="Watson Davis"}
Those you have heard are only a few of the top young scientists of the nation.

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{SPEAKER name="Watson Davis"}
In addition to the 40 coming to Washington in the next few days, there are 260 Science Talent Search honorable mentions, whose promise is so outstanding that they are being recommended to the Universities and Colleges of the nation for entrance and scholarships if they need them.

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{SPEAKER name="Watson Davis"}
Now almost every kind of science activity is represented in the Science Talent Search. A solid rocket fuel was experimented with by a Vermillion, Ohio boy. A Newton, Massachusetts boy made a cyclotron atom smasher that fits in a room in his home, and costs only 150 dollars.

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{SPEAKER name="Watson Davis"}
A scintillation counter was made by an Albany, California boy, from salvaged parts of outdated equipment. Dyes were made from 50 plant and animal materials by a Marshfield, Wisconsin girl. While a Cheyenne, Wyoming girl experimented with ways to keep potatoes from spoiling.

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{SPEAKER name="Watson Davis"}
Two boys, one from Kenmore, New York and the other from Washington D.C., worked on the mysteries of cancer. And in Choteau, Montana a boy collected, preserved, and identified 400 insect specimens.
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