Whiz Kids: Intel Science Talent Search Documentary

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Scientific American

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4.2 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2010

⏱️ 34 minutes

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The new documentary film Whiz Kids follows three high school student-scientists as they attempt to get their projects accepted into the prestigious Intel Science Talent Search. Scientific American podcast host Steve Mirsky talks with the film's writer and editor, Jane Wagner, and with two of the stars of the documentary, Ana Cisneros and Hermain Khan. Plus, we'll test your knowledge about some recent science in the news. Web sites related to content of this podcast include www.nature.com/nature/podcast and http://whizkidsmovie.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.7	Welcome to Science Talk, the weekly podcast of Scientific American posted on July 19th, 2010. I'm Steve Merski. This week on the podcast.
0:40.3	When you're drilling into these teeth, you get a lot of dust all over your hands, and I guess I was just really curious, like, what does it taste like? I just kind of like, it's like a little lick.
0:50.3	That's Hermann Khan, one of the young scientists featured in the new documentary film, Wiz Kids.
0:57.0	The movie follows three high school students attempting to get their work accepted into the prestigious Intel Science Talent Search.
1:04.9	The three students are Collegro Welker, Anna Cisneros, and Hermane.
1:09.5	Anna and Hermane were able to visit the Scientific American offices on June 4th,
1:14.1	along with the movie's writer and editor Jane Wagner.
1:17.2	I started things off by talking to Jane.
1:21.2	Tell us about the reason this film came to be.
1:25.9	Well, the genesis of the film was really, producer Michael Duker, worked for a while as in the admissions office at Stanford University.
1:36.3	And he really saw that these applications coming in that had Intel finalists on them would go to the top of the pile. And he was fascinated by that
1:47.3	concept. And so it really began this journey into seeing who were these people who made up
1:53.0	the Intel finalists that got this really preferential treatment at A-list universities.
2:01.6	What convinced everybody involved, though, that this was a film?
2:06.6	Well, I think that the idea had to do with the sort of uber structure of the film,
2:12.6	which was the Intel Science Talent Search.
2:15.6	And so you had a sort of armature for the film, which was a science competition.
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