Ward Melville secondary school in East Ssetuket and Great Neck South Middle School were champions of the Long Island Regional Science Bowl of this year – Ward Melville winning the title for the third consecutive year.
The teams, who are now advancing the nationals, have taken first place among high school and college groups, respectively, in the “Jeopardy!” Competition – Style. The subjects of the competition included biology, chemistry and physics, according to the Brookhaven National Laboratory, which hosted the competition at the end of January.
The two teams received trips all the costs paid to participate in the National Science Bowl near Washington, DC, from April 24 to 28.
“I could not be more proud of all their hard work, their determination and their dedication,” said Ward Melville Philip Medina coach about his team. “Although each member has perfected his skills in a particular specialized field, he excelled as a team because of his support for each other.”
The members of the Ward Melville team are Harry Gao, Sean Skinner, Gunes Sunar, Anna Xing and Jason Yin.
The members of the Great Neck South team are Austin Chen, Leeann Lee, Nathan Li, Ryan Tsai and Zale Zhang.
The teams of finalist at the school and the college came from Great Neck South High School respectively and Hunter College Middle School in Manhattan.
NASA Techrise
A team from the Lycée de Sewanhaka is one of the 60 winners at the national level of NASA Techrise Student Challenge this year, which asked students to create experiences that work and collect autonomous and collect data from the edge of space. To win, the team received $ 1,500 to build their experience for a place assigned this summer on a ball at high altitude sponsored by NASA.
Sewanhaka’s project is entitled “Craters”, which represents cosmic radiation through two substances resistant to energy. It aims to assess how light materials can protect humans and equipment against exposure to radiation, school officials said.
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Character schools
The Jonas E. Salk Middle School of Levittown, Eastplan Elementary School in Plainege and Plainege High School is part of 98 American schools named state schools by the non -profit character.org.
The selected schools met the standards described as part of the 11 Character Principles.org for schools, which range from the identification of a set of fundamental values to engaging families in these principles. They also suffered on site.
“Each of these schools. . . have implemented an initiative that is equivalent and allows their staff to strengthen and model a range of positive fundamental values, “said character. Org, Arthur Schwartz, in a press release.
Educational partners
Twelve people and three organizations must receive prizes for educational partners from Nassau Boces for “deep effects on public education in the county of Nassau,” said the agency.
The winners are Renee Blumstein, president of informed decision -making services; Mindy Davidson, professional rehabilitation advisor, Nassau Boces; Chased Desiré, administrator of the School Board, Uniondale School District; Thomas Dolan, retirement superintendent, Great Neck School District; John Fretz, virtual professor, Nassau Boces; Ashlee Fucarino, student, nassau boces long island high school for the arts in Syosset; Christine Kavanagh, professor’s assistant, Nassau Boces; Robert Mackay, instructor, nassau boces; Joanna Malament, Associate Director, Department of Special Education of Nassau Boces; William Monahan, program developer, Nassau Boces; Diane Provvido, assistant superintendent of the study, teaching and technology program, Oceanside School District; and Lawrence Zaino Jr., President of the School Board, Carle Place School District.
Winning groups are the Joel Foundation, Hangout One Happy places in Baldwin and the Long Island Association.
Michael R. Ebert has been an education researcher and has worked for Newsday at various titles 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.