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SPARKS:2001 V1/Q1
SPARKS THAT CAUGHT FIRE
Featuring those who are developing their inventive and scientific talents and are continuing pursuits first "sparked" by an Academy program!
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SPARKS:2001 V1/Q1 SPARKS THAT CAUGHT FIRE Featuring those who are developing their inventive and scientific talents and are continuing pursuits first "sparked" by an Academy program!
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Kyra
Sedransk, Junior Science and Humanities Symposium finalist
(Ohio, 2000) and first alternate to attend the national symposium,
only a tenth grader at Hathaway Brown School, has just had her research
on heart valves published. From the same school and the same JSHS
regional, Ann Lai, a senior, was one of seven young inventors to
be inducted into the National Gallery for America's Young Inventors.
Ann invented a sensor that measures sulfur dioxide emissions of
individual industrial smokestacks. 
Eric
Klaxton was a participant in New Hampshire Young Inventors'
Program from first to fifth grades while at Sandown Central Elementary
School. Eric was the first place finisher from his school all five
years and won last year's statewide invention celebration among
all fifth graders for "Erik's Easy Find Ski Tag," a "LoJack" for
skiers. (See interview with Academy Board Chair Sheldon Apsell for
the original spark). 
Cliff Pickover, Monmouth, N.J. Junior Science
and Humanities Symposium finalist, and national symposium (West
Point) participant in 1975, went to Franklin and Marshall, and then
on to Yale for a Ph.D. in Physics. Since 1982 he has been on the
research staff at IBM, the Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights,
N.Y. Dr. Pickover is a prolific inventor with dozens of patents,
is the associate editor for several journals, and has published
a book a year for the last twenty years on such topics as computers
and creativity, art, mathematics, black holes, human behavior and
intelligence, time travel, alien life and science fiction. His website