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

— Norman Matloff

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

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

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

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

New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman said that the Intel competition "identifies and honors the top math and science students in America, based on their solutions to scientific problems."

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