Sentence examples for scientific competitions from inspiring English sources

FOR years, prestigious scientific competitions like the Intel Science Talent Search (more familiar by its former name, the Westinghouse program) were dominated by high school students from such science powerhouses as Stuyvesant, Bronx Science, Brooklyn Tech and some Long Island schools.

Scientific competitions are becoming more common in many research areas of artificial intelligence and robotics, since they provide a shared testbed for comparing different solutions and enable the exchange of research results.

Scientific competition is fierce.

That is the essence of scientific competition.

How important is the Intel competition -- or any other scientific competition?

Tellingly, the current fascination with STEM toys comes at a moment of renewed American awareness of international scientific competition.

When one thinks about the cold war today, images of political confrontation, military crisis, scientific competition and athletic rivalry come to mind.

Of course, for a well-told yarn of scientific competition, blind alleys, dirty tricks and triumph, there is no substitute for Jim Watson's "The Double Helix".

According to his father, Abdullah spent five days at the Nasa headquarters after an Indian institute awarded him a "Global Icon" certificate for coming top in a scientific competition.

Juliet Kinchin, the exhibition's curator, told me that science and building toys became especially popular during the mid-twentieth century, "in the context of space-age competition and international scientific competition".

Thomas Murray, president of the Hastings Center and a leading bioethicist, wondered "if the timing of the announcement had to do with scientific competition, personal competition or positioning for funding from investors".