“You can’t just go out there and know that you’re fast, your car is fast, and your car is reliable. There’s a lot of thinking going on," said pro driver Shea Holbrook.
Immigrant parents "are driven by the expectations of their own parents and the fact that their parents have worked so hard to give them good lives,” says Victoria Xiao, 16.
There were hundreds of gawkers and exhibits from all over the world.
But nothing made the Intel Science and Engineering Fair last month feel more like a zoo than the signs: "Please do not poke, tease, or feed the science nerds."