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Prize money -- $3 million of it -- can help breed big ideas. Just check out the tunneling microscopes, high-tech software and geology research completed by high-school students. By John Gartner.
The Intel International Science and Engineering Fair awarded the top three prize winners $50,000 college scholarships and free trips to Stockholm to attend the Nobel ceremony.Courtesy of Intel

