Archive for March 13th, 2009
You can catch me doing eight video interviews with finalists in the 2009 Intel Science Talent Search on the Scientific American website here.
Bear in mind that these young people are 17 years old. Since I write about education topics a lot, I’ve done a number of interviews with teenagers over the years. It’s often a challenge, but not in this case — these young scientists were remarkably composed.
Laura Vanderkam is the author of 168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think (Portfolio, 2010) and Grindhopping: Build a Rewarding Career without Paying Your Dues (McGraw-Hill, 2007). She is a member of USA Today's Board of Contributors, and her work has appeared in Reader's Digest, Scientific American, Wired, The American, Portfolio and other publications.
Write to her at lvanderkam at yahoo dot com.