Stephen Bergin

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More than 1,500 very bright kids from 47 countries are in the Duke City to compete for $4 million in scholarships and prizes and have a week of science fun at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair being held at the Albuquerque Convention Center, Downtown.

The Tribune met with five of them from our hometown to see what it's all about.

Name: Stephen Bergin

Age: 18

School: St. Pius X

Grade: Senior, then going to Duke University this fall.

Title of project: "Selective Elemental Detection Within Multiple Molecular Compounds Through Gas Chromatography."

Say that in English: I developed a detector that looks at light after it comes off of atoms. It can detect what element you're looking at and how it relates to a molecule.

Favorite area of science: Neuroscience. My project is actually a good background for that, believe it or not.

What's cool about that area: It's really unexplored, and there's a lot of things we don't know about it.

Best way to blow off steam: I go for a run. I ran cross country in track. I guess I had a lot of steam to blow off.

Favorite brain food: Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. I have one five out of seven days a week after school.

Scientist role model: Denise Faustman, a doctor at Harvard University studying diabetes without using embryonic stem cells. Coming from a Catholic standpoint, I really appreciate her work. She's getting really great results.

If you could ask that role model one thing, what would it be: What other scientific field does she view as the most exciting, because I'm really trying to decide where I want to go.

Dream job: Probably being a neurology surgeon. It would be great to talk to somebody who was completely unresponsive, then see them get better after surgery.