She also won the $100,000 first prize at the 2007 Intel Science Talent Search.
Intel Science Talent Search, formerly known as Westinghouse Science Talent Search, a research-based science competition in the United States for high school students
Intel | Bachelor of Science | National Science Foundation | American Association for the Advancement of Science | political science | Master of Science | Science | Computer Science | computer science | science | Political Science | America's Got Talent | Mystery Science Theater 3000 | Norwegian University of Science and Technology | Britain's Got Talent | science fiction film | Weizmann Institute of Science | Science fiction | Indian Institute of Science | The Christian Science Monitor | Science (journal) | Intel International Science and Engineering Fair | Science Applications International Corporation | National Medal of Science | Computer science | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | Search for Tomorrow | American Political Science Association | Star Search | Science Museum |
Named for Stanley Shapiro, the teacher-advisor of several Intel Science Talent Search finalists from Midwood High School at Brooklyn College.
Otana was also a finalist in the 2010 Intel Science Talent Search (for which another minor planet was named in honor of her advisor 26250 Shaneludwig).