Names to Know:

Evan Michael O'Dorney.

He is the first Bay Area student to win what is considered the high school equivalent of a Nobel Prize and the sixth from California since the contest started in 1942. He appears to be the first homeschooled winner as well, according to organizers.

Evan, 17, beat out 39 other Intel Science Talent Search finalists from across the country with a mathematics entry summarized as "Continued Fraction Convergents and Linear fractional transformations."

In more simple terms, the teen found the answer to a previously unsolved theoretical math problem that involved approximating the square root of a non-square integer.
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In 2007, he won the Scripps National Spelling Bee, which earned him a $10,000 oversized check and a trip to the White House to meet President George W. Bush.

In August, he won a gold medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad, which was followed by a congratulatory phone call from President Obama.