Twenty -one students advance internationally according to their performance Long Island Sciences and Engineering Fair.
This year’s fair included 455 participants from 67 schools in 16 categories ranging from animal sciences to translational medical sciences. The first round saw the students present their work to the judges with at least 25% of the submissions in each category selected for the second round last month at the Crest Hollow Country Club in Woodbury, according to officials of the Fair.
The subjects of the project went from the exploration of the optimization of nutrient levels in keratin -based substrates with the harmful effects of hunting over the length of the bellows in the bison.
“The judges have all pointed out the incredibly sophisticated scientific level of projects,” said the director of the fair, Angela Lukaszewski. “The importance of science, technology, engineering and mathematical education in the schools of Long Island was very obvious.”
Students eligible for the International Science and Engineering Fair in Ohio from May 10 to 16 and their school districts: Partap Singh Sidhu, Bethpage; Mehek Kaur Sawhney, command; Aafia Ahmed, Elmont; Taylor Maguire, Garden City; Erin Wong, Grande Cou; Arav Chand and Alexandra Claire d’Alessio, Half Hollow Hills; Sandeep Sawhney, Herricks; Lilly Sarah Horowitz and Sophia Antonina Tarasenko, Jericho; Isabel Rose Gonzalez, Lucienne Keyoung and Emily Zhao, Manhasset; Dora Fields, Northport-East Northport; Chloé Yerin Lee, Plainview-Oold Bethpage; Leah Mannshu Dong, Port Washington; Natalie Osorio, Sewnahaka; Daanish Bassi, Smithtown; and Gary Han, Grace Chenxin Liu and Winston Zhou, Syosset.
Elwood
‘Save a pair’
Elwood intermediary school Recently collected more than 500 pairs of socks for the long Island Coalition for the homeless thanks to its very first conduct of socks “spare a pair”, coordinated by the student leadership of the school.
To pass the word, student leaders have distributed weekly leaflets and organized activities such as “day of socks and sandals” in which children wore socks and sandals at school, according to school officials.
“This sock campaign is a powerful reminder of how a community can come together to support a significant cause,” said Jill Locascio, a co-vision of a student leadership, in a statement.
North
Pont winner
Mairead Carroll, elder from the Northport secondary school, won first place in the Brookhaven National Laboratory 2025 Bridges Construction CompetitionWho challenged young people to use Basswood and Grue to make bridges that are tested to see the weight they can withstand. This year’s competition included 173 bridges of 13 local secondary schools.
The bridges were classified on efficiency scores calculated from “the load that the bridge supports divided by the mass of the bridge”, according to laboratory officials.
To win, Carroll and the finalist Vincent d’Angelo, the High School command, are eligible for an international competition in Chicago on April 26.
On the island scale
JV and college fairs
Thirty -one students from Long Island were victorious of the first place in the Junior University School and College Fair last month as part of this year’s long Island Science and Engineering Fair (Lisef).
The winners of the Junior University Salon and their school districts: Seth Zachary Schwartz, Commack; Emma Elise Su and Abigail Anna Thomas, Herricks; Anchita Agrawal and Henry Zhang, Jericho; Nicolas Spencer Keyoung, Belen Vazquez, Krisha Wadhwa and Arjun Wanchoo, Manhasset; Mahiya Vira, north shore at Glen Head; And Matthew Lin, Roslyn.
The winners of the college fair and their school districts were: William Morin, Anthony Sierecki and Kaden Weber, Cold Spring Harbor; Lenna Karwowska and Isabella Rufrano, Copiague; Hailey Au, Caitlin Chan, Victoria Huang, Juniper Lee, Nathan Li, Jada Lin, Selena Long, Sabrina Sang, Ryan Tsai, Natalie Wu, Isabelle Yang, Kyle Zheng and Tonya Zhu; Big neck; And Vaibhavi Hegde and Mihir Sathish Kumar, Hauppauge.
Michael R. Ebert has been an education researcher and has worked for Newsday at various capacities since 2003. He was part of a team of 11 people appointed finalist of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for investigating the safety problems of the LIRR platform.