Children of recent immigrants lead America's scientific competitions

These citizen students show how important immigrants are to this country. They have the hard work values their immigrant parents brought with them and are adding to our country. - - Donna Poisl

By Lisa M. Krieger

Quantifying what has long been obvious in Silicon Valley, a new analysis shows the majority of America's top high school science competitors are the children of new immigrants.

The report, released Monday by the nonpartisan National Foundation for American Policy, found that about two-thirds of the finalists at the Intel Science Talent Search -- the Nobel Prize of high school science -- were born to parents who hailed from either China or India.
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