{"id":6561,"date":"2011-05-28T13:14:37","date_gmt":"2011-05-28T18:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=6561"},"modified":"2011-05-28T13:16:18","modified_gmt":"2011-05-28T18:16:18","slug":"25_of_2011_inte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/28\/25_of_2011_inte\/","title":{"rendered":"25% of 2011 Intel Science Talent Search finalists Indian American"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"talentfig.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/talentfig.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/05\/24\/immigrants-science_n_866321.html\">Children of Immigrants Are America&#8217;s Science Superstars<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n<p><i>The study, conducted by the National Foundation for American Policy, found that 70 percent of the finalists in the 2011 Intel Science Talent Search competition &#8212; also known as the &#8220;Junior Nobel Prize&#8221; &#8212; were the children of immigrants even though only 12 percent of the U.S. population is foreign-born.<\/i><\/p>\n\n<p>A think tank called the National Foundation for Economic Policy has released a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfap.com\/pdf\/Children_of_Immigrants_in_Science_and_Math_NFAP_Policy_Brief_May_2011.pdf\">report<\/a> (PDF), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfap.com\/pdf\/Children_of_Immigrants_in_Science_and_Math_NFAP_Policy_Brief_May_2011.pdf\">The impact of the children of immigrants on scientific achievement in America<\/a>. These aren&#8217;t just any &#8220;immigrants.&#8221; Ethnically 10 out of the 40 finalists are Indian American, and 16 are Chinese American, but perhaps more critically: &#8220;While <b>former H-1B visa holders comprise less than 1 percent of the U.S. population, 60 percent of the finalists had parents who entered the U.S. on H-1B visas<\/b>, which are generally the only practical way to hire skilled foreign nationals.&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children of Immigrants Are America&#8217;s Science Superstars: The study, conducted by the National Foundation for American Policy, found that 70 percent of the finalists in the 2011 Intel Science Talent Search competition &#8212; also known as the &#8220;Junior Nobel Prize&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/28\/25_of_2011_inte\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":503,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[47,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6561"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/503"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}