Ann Arborites are so smart even the town's high school
students are winning awards for research. A Huron
High School senior took home an award
for her research on a vaccine and a $50,000 scholarship from the Young
Epidemiology Scholars Competition in Washington,
D.C.
Excerpt:
Katie Everett is a math whiz, but even she didn't know how
to create a computer program until six months ago.
Today, this neophyte programmer from Ann Arbor is $50,000 better off -- having
earned a scholarship by being one of two top winners in the annual Young
Epidemiology Scholars (YES) Competition.
She won thanks to a computer program she created that helped
her discover information about the effectiveness of the human papilloma virus
vaccination for adolescents.
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