any of you entering DuPont Essay Competition,

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<p>I just found about this, and it sounds very interesting. But their website really doesn't have much information about the essay itself, and I have a question. </p>

<p>I understand that the essay should be about a science topic, but what is it have to be like? Does it have to simply discuss a topic that I am interested in, or do I have to discover something in that area and talk aobut my discovery? It's inconspicuous what it is that they really look for in an essay.</p>

<p>Could you guys help me out? :)</p>

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<p>oh i did that freshmen year... my friend got honorable mentioned, and she talked about nuts...peanuts... another person in my school got honorable mentioned and she wrote about the brain... </p>

<p>just make sure you reaaally know what you are saying.</p>

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<p>person from my school won the competition one year.. wrote about genetically engineered rice</p>

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<p>hey I won the Dupont Essay Competition last year, if any of you want my essay, just gimme ur email address and i'll send it to u.</p>

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<p><a href="http://www.glcomm.com/dupont/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.glcomm.com/dupont/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>I went to that site but it doesn't work?</p>

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<p>seems like they're currently in the process of updating it.</p>

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<p>hey guys, i think they just updated the website with his essay.
<a href="http://www.glcomm.com/dupont%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.glcomm.com/dupont&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>does anyone else really have problems with scrolling up and down in the dupont website?</p>

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<p>No. Are you using Mozilla? Netscape?</p>

<p>I use Firefox and it's fine.</p>

<p>You just have to hover your mouse over the arrow and it scrolls automatically.</p>

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<p>i know but mine scrolls down way too fast.</p>

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<p>Anyone know how "big" this thing is? Like, would winning be something to put on applications?</p>

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<p>has anyone heard back from this yet?</p>

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<p><em>bump</em> ^above post</p>

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<p>Oh snap.</p>

<p>At first, I was like, "Another essay contest?! I'm so in."</p>

<p>And then I realized that it's science-related. Meh.</p>

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<p>yeah, i was checking out teh rules and they scroll down WAY too fast. seems interesting, though.</p>

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<p>so no one from the senior divison has heard any results yet?</p>

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<p>no i havent heard anything either</p>

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<p>I entered, I don't expect anything big though.</p>

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<p>I've checked it out. Looks pretty interesting. I like science. I like to write. Sounds like my cup of tea.</p>

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<p>see ya in the funny pages pal!</p>