<p>[I posted this article on the High School page, but I figured that with so many high school seniors lurking on this board, it would be appropriate to post it here as well.]</p>
<p>And this school doesn't have the name Phillips in it either;P. Students from Abraham Lincoln High School in San Francisco were recruited by a professor at UCSF to represent the university at iGEM, the international Genetically Engineered Machine competition held annually at MIT. This competition is limited primarily to undergraduate students, however, UCSF, being a postgraduate university invited these students to represent them at the competition. These students broke new ground by creating a synthetic organelle! And the most impressive thing about it? They learned all the lab techniques necessary in their high school biology lab course! If you want to read more, here is a link to the article: High</a> school biowizards break new ground in winning competition</p>
<p>Cool!And being on a team that made that kind of groundbreaking win is an example of a hook for college admissions -- something amazingly extraordinary.</p>
<p>Poor MIT--weren't they also famously beat in a national competition by those barrio kids who formed an underwater robotics club at their Arizona high school?</p>
<p>Not that I think there's anything wrong with MIT; it's just that their reputation is so stellar that it's considered very newsworthy when they are beaten in a brains-related competition</p>
<p>Anyone else have trouble seeing this thread?</p>
<p>I tried to get there from the discussion home page, where it is featured, but kept getting an "unauthorized to view" message. I finally got here by doing a search for "biology competition."</p>
<p>Maybe this is why there are so few comments even thought it is featured.</p>