The 40 finalists for the Intel Science Talent Search have been selected, note how many New Yorkers there are!

Addendum: Just realized that the observation about "New Yorkers" might be taken as a reference to Jews. Actually, it was simply because California is so much more populous, but New York seems to have walloped it in geek-yield (using this metric). Also, Texas (more populous) is hardly present. This is obviously attributable to the Ashkenazi Jewish presence, but that wasn't the main thrust of my comment. Just wanted to clarify. I've added a map showing the states represented and the numbers from each state below.

Below is an alphabetic listing of their surnames....

Alexeev
Anahtar
Auster
Chauhan
Chen
Chi
Choi
Collier
D'Ascoli
Deutsch
Glukhovsky
Goldberg
Ha
Halperin
Hang
Harel
Hartman
Hedberg
Heller
Karnik
Levin
Lubin
McMillan
Michta
Munteanu
Nachbaur
Nettimi
Raj
Rau-Murthy
Reznik
Richelson
Storm
Su
Suri
Thakur
Wang
Westrick
Wolfson
Yen
Zhou

california 3
connecticut 1
DC 1
georgia 1
indiana 1
iowa 1
maryland 4
massachusetts 2
michigan 1
minnesota 1
new york 16
oregon 2
texas 1
vermont 1
virginia 2