"Project-oriented contests such as Intel aren't measures of scientific brilliance"

“There is even a how-to book, "Success With Science: The Winners' Guide to High School Research,”

“most top science and math students don't participate in such national contests.”

“Professor Miriam Rafailovich... told me ...that the contestants "get massive coaching from the schools”

“Three of the president’s proposals target tech. This is especially true in that the foreign workers are overwhelmingly young, thus exacerbating the rampant age discrimination that we already have in the tech world”

“The contest doesn't rank talent in the same way we identify the fastest hurdlers or longest jumpers.”

“A past winner ... told the STEM education newsletter Metroplex Math Circle about choosing among projects offered by her university mentor”