66th Annual STS (2006-2007)
Finalists
Sarah Dana Bayefsky-Anand

NEW YORK
Sarah Dana Bayefsky-Anand, 17, of New York, entered the Intel Science Talent Search with a zoology project based on research she performed in Israel's Negev Desert on the European free-tailed bat. Depending on the situation, these bats vary their call features to maximize their hunting success. Sarah's research included recording the echolocation calls of these wild free-flying bats, selecting the recordings of the calls she needed for her work, analyzing the calls, and then studying the data generated from the analysis. She concluded that during "social buzzes" and "feeding buzzes," the bats progressively shorten the duration and interpulse intervals of their calls. She has studied bats for four years, and her earlier work has been published in peer-reviewed journals. At The Abraham Joshua Heschel School, Sarah captains the volleyball team and is founder and president of its current events club. Born in Canada, she is fluent in French and spent one summer cataloguing fossils at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris. In her spare time, Sarah enjoys tap-dancing and singing. The daughter of Raj Anand and Anne Bayefsky, she hopes to study biology and become a field biologist or physician.