A State College-area high school student will return home from spring break with a major research prize under his belt.

A State College Area School District student won first place on Tuesday night in a national math and science competition for high school seniors billed as the oldest and most prestigious of its kind.

God moves the player, he in turn, the piece. But what god beyond God begins the round of dust and time and sleep and agonies? —Jorge Luis Borges, from “Chess,” 1960 The victory in March of the ...