Professor Miriam Rafailovich... told me ...that the contestants "get massive coaching from the schools - Norman Matloff

There is even a how-to book, "Success With Science: The Winners' Guide to High School Research,"

most top science and math students don't participate in such national contests.

In case after case, we see tech titans and entrepreneurs misbehaving or breaking the law. They push the boundary of acceptable or ethical behavior that most of us have to play by. Even if some of them provide the technologies of tomorrow, it doesn’t mean they can operate under different set of rule