More than 800 individual student and team awards are presented at Intel ISEF:

• The Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award, the top prize, is awarded to three finalists who each receive a $50,000 college scholarship.
• The Intel Best of Category award of a $5,000 scholarship and a high-performance computer goes to the top-scoring student in each project category. These students’ schools and fair directors will each receive $1,000 to benefit science and math education and encourage more student involvement in science.
• Grand awards prizes are given for the first ($3,000) second ($1,500), third ($1,000) and fourth place ($500) projects in each category.
• Special awards worth more than $1.5 million include scholarships, summer internships, scientific field trips and laboratory equipment provided by Intel and Society for Science & the Public, as well as nearly 70 other corporate, professional and government sponsors.
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For more information about special awards, please visit the SSP website.