Michael Randall Shirts, Timpview High School student, is among 300 semifinalists in the 52nd Westinghouse Science Talent Search. The prestigious contest elicited entries from 1,662 students from 684 schools in the United States, District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.

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Forty finalists will be named later this month.Shirts' project was titled "Io-Effect on Magnetospheric Plasma Wave Loss Cone Distribution Relative to Jovian Decametric Radio Emission."

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