Eurekalert, the news service available via the New York Academy of Sciences, posted an interesting item the other day about three New York high school students who will be attending the Nobel Prize festivities in Stockholm, Sweden during the first week of December. For winning the "Laureates of Tomorrow" Nobel Essay Contest, the three students received a week-long, all-expense paid trip to attend the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony, the world-famous Nobel Banquet and related activities in Sweden. The Bronx (Horace Mann), Brooklyn (Midwood H.S.) and Staten Island (Staten Island Technical H.S.) will be represented in Stockholm - but Manhattan and Queens will not.

The competition, launched in 2004 and open to all juniors in New York City high schools, required students to write essays examining the impact on science and society of major scientific achievements by Nobel Prize winners in physics, chemistry or physiology & medicine. The finalists had to defend their essays before a panel of scientists and journalists, among them Nobel Laureates.

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