This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English EducationReport.

High school students from more than forty countries gathered lastweek in the American Northwest. They took part in thetwo-thousand-four Intel International Science and Engineering Fair.They competed for more than three-million dollars in awards andmoney for college.

We told you last week about five high school teachers honored fortheir excellence in teaching mathematics and science. They won moneyand a trip to the science and engineering fair held last week inPortland, Oregon. Now, meet a few of the students honored for theprojects they presented there.

The top winners are from the United States, Germany and China.They were named Intel Young Scientists. Each received a highperformance computer and fifty-thousand dollars for college.

One of the winners isseventeen-year-old Sarah Rose Langberg of Fort Myers, Florida. Shewon a top prize for her project in Earth and space sciences. Sheinvestigated the southern Juan de Fuca Ridge in the Pacific Ocean.This is one of the most active volcanic areas on Earth. She studiedvideo images from the ocean floor and did other research in aneffort to explain details of this area.

Eighteen-year-old Uwe Treske of Grafenhainichen Germany, won forhis physics project. He used common materials to develop a low-costversion of a powerful device called a scanning tunneling microscope.

The third top winner is nineteen-year-old Zhu Yuanchen ofShanghai. His computer science project involved computer graphics.He developed a way to produce high-quality images with clearerdetail in less time.

More thanone-thousand-three-hundred students competed in the IntelInternational Science and Engineering Fair. Intel calls it "theworld's largest pre-college celebration of science." The computertechnology company in the United States has held the fair sincenineteen-ninety-seven. But a non-profit organization called ScienceService has administered the event for the past fifty-five years.

You can learn more information about Science Service and the fairthrough the Internet. The Web site is sciserv.org. Again, theaddress is sciserv.org.

This VOA Special English Education Report was written by NancySteinbach. This is Steve Ember.