The following will come as no surprise to folks familiar with home schooling:

Recently Albuquerque hosted the 2007 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF). The top three competitors at ISEF ranged in age from 16 to 18 including the home schooled 16 year old Phillip Streich of Wisconsin whose project disproved the deeply held general assumption that carbon nano tubes were impervious to all solvents when he showed them to be soluble in methl-2-pyrrolidone. Each of these three top competitors won the Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award plus a $50,000 scholarship.

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