Immigration Law and Policy Affects High School Math, Science, and Technology Competition?

The AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMAN (November 10) reports that an LBJ High School (Austin, Texas) senior will be among 14 students vying for thousands of dollars in prize money in the Southwestern Regional Finals of the prestigious Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology at the University of Texas at Austin this weekend. Tiffany Tsang, and her teammates, Kimberly Yeh, a sophomore at Austin High School in Sugar Land, and Yangluo “Jim” Wang, also an LBJ senior, worked for three months to formulate a method for dispersing traffic congestion. But Wang won’t be competing. He’s not even identified as a creator of the project, because Siemens stipulates that all teammates must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents with green cards. Wang has a temporaryvisa. And now, the College Board, which administers the competition, could call into question the legitimacy of the Tsang-and-Yeh team, because the project was an effort of all three students, and only two are receiving full credit. It’s analogous, they say, to a student not being present at the competition.   Click here for the details.

One can only asky one question — “why”?

Thanks to Cappy White for another story!

KJ