Off Topic: Big Brown take note: Sarah Lee Sellers turning into the Secretariat in the horserace for West Virginia Idol

Big Brown

As of today Sarah Lee Sellers has over 450 more votes than she did yesterday, and I am sure much of that was because of your help. She leads the pack by over 400 votes, but she is by no means out of the woods yet. Afterall, she in West Virginia, which probably means she is never out of the woods. Ok, bad joke I admit. To quote Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, "I kid, I kid."

Please click here to vote for Sarah. And to read more about her story click here, or just scroll two entries down. The contest ends on June 1st, which is a week from tomorrow.

It is also important that she has a strong showing because apparantly our votes only count for one third of the role in selecting the winner.

Grand Prize Winner Announced (6/03/08) Process of picking winner includes input from MetroNews & Sponsors (1/3rd), WVWC (1/3rd), and Voting Results (1/3rd).

We cannot have these West Virginia Wesleyan and MetroNews Superdelegates overturning the will of the American people! That is why she needs to go into the convention with a sizeable lead.
Oh by the way, if you don't have any idea who Sarah Lee Sellers is, she's a freaking genius.

If there's such a thing as competitive calculator mashing, Sarah Lee Sellers would get the medal. A high school junior from Hedgesville, W.Va., Sarah spent 2,000 hours and burned out two calculators – creating a handmade 111 by 111 prime magic square out of only Eisenstein prime numbers. (If you must ask, a magic square's columns all add up to the same number, while an Eisenstein prime is any number where 3n-1 equals a prime.) She even managed to sneak a cryptic message – "Love" – in the top center.

A testament to a rigorous mind, Sarah's accomplishment – whether it medals or not at ISEF – has already sparked interest in math among classmates back in Hedgesville, she says. And when a gaggle of local elementary school students gathers around her booth, she explains sweetly, holding up her giant magic square: "You can do anything you want to if you put your mind to it."

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