And they are:
Dayan Li (Greenbelt, MD)
Philip Vidal Streich (Platteville, WI)
Dmitry Vaintrob (Eugene, OR)
What does "second place" mean when she wasn't one of the top three winners? Was she "2nd" in her high school...this is a high school science project we are talking about, after all. You kind of make it sound a bit better (2nd in an international competition), but it doesn't look like she advanced to the "International" competition level, much less the national competition level. Strangely, the ribbon in her photo was a rainbow colored ribbon...not the usual color for 2nd place. Looking forward to a link to an actual list of the winners, not her publicist saying she got second place when she isn't listed in the top three. I'm not saying you are wrong...I'm just saying your contention is not yet supported by any evidence that didn't come from her...and we know she wasn't in the top three, so the burden is on you to back up your claim now.