A teenage sister and brother from Hawaii took top honors for cancer-related research at the Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology at Stanford University in early November.

Team competition winners Lucia Mocz, 15, and Philip Mocz, 16, got first place for their project: computer-aided identification of cancer from photomicrographs by entropy analysis.

The siblings said they wanted to apply their strong math interest to “a real-world problems.”
They won $6,000 in shared scholarship and the chance to participate at a national competition in New York .

Fifteen boys and two girls competed in the Western Regional Finals of the prestigious event.


—By Sheila Riley

Posted on December 4, 2006 06:05 AM