Teen Whiz Kids Bag $630,000 in Prizes at Intel Science Fair[ Wed, 12 Mar 2014 01:10:22 GMT ]A 17-year-old from California took home $100,000 in prize money as winner of the Intel Science Talent Search for his work on anti-flu drugs.Eric Chen used computer models to pin down a potential class of drugs that would work by tripping up endonucleases, enzymes that viruses use to multiply.