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Albuquerque-area students who won awards in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair are:

Susannah Lee Clary, 15, Los Lunas High School

Second place - Animal Sciences, $1,500 cash prize

Project: "The Determination of Gender in Pacific and Atlantic Salmon for Improved Management of Threatened and Endangered Stocks"

Also: Full tuition scholarship award - University of New Mexico; Honorable mention award - North American Benthological Society

Erika DeBenedictis, 15, St. Pius X High School

Second place - Computer Science, $1,500 cash prize

Project: "Ping Me! Optimizing Code for Cluster Computing"

Also: Second-place prize of $1,500 - U.S. Air Force; three $1,000 U.S. Savings Bonds, a certificate of achievement and a gold medallion - U.S. Army; Honorable Mention Award of $200 - Association of Computing Machinery

Kristina Graham Dahm, 17, Rio Rancho High School

Third place - Environmental Sciences, $1,000 cash prize

Project: "Geomicrobiology of New Mexican Travertine Springs"

Adam Akkad, 16, Albuquerque Academy

Fourth place - Cellular and Molecular Biology, $500 cash prize

Project: "A Study of the Effect of Nigella sativa (black seed) and Its Main Constituent, Thymoquinone, on the Visibility, Proliferation and Migration of SCC12F Epithelial Cells"

H. Richard Zou, 17, Albuquerque Academy

Fourth place - Medicine and Health Sciences, $500 cash prize

Project: "Mechanisms of Inhibition and Apoptosis of Human Prostate Cancer Cells by Epigallocatechin-3-Gallate"

Also: Tuition scholarship of $120,000 - Drexel University

Quinton Bernard Smith, 17, La Cueva High School

Tyrus LaVelle Sanders, 16, West Mesa High School

Christian Stephen Hammond, 17, Rio Rancho High School

Fourth place - Team Projects, $500 cash prize

Project: "Factors, Forces and Forecasting Stock Market Modeling and Simulation"

Also: Award of $1,000 - Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence

Stephen Michael Bergin, 18, St. Pius X High School

Project: "Selective Elemental Determination Within Multiple Molecular Compounds Through Gas Chromatography"

Won: Award of $250 - Vacuum Technology Division of the American Vacuum Society