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Midwood Science sweeps Brooklyn College on Science Research Day

Posted on Sunday, May 11, 2014 by for Awards, Brooklyn College.

No, we didn’t clean the campus. Brooklyn College has enough paid professionals to do that without our help.

Brooklyn College Science Research Day is the annual, campus-wide science fair held at the end of the spring semester. Posters are presented by Brooklyn College undergraduate and graduate students — and also by students from partner high schools in the borough. More than one hundred posters were exhibited in the Brooklyn College Student Center on Friday, May 9, 2014. The other meaning of "sweep" is to win every award in a contest. Every award in the High School Division at Brooklyn College Research Day was won by a Midwood Science student in 2014 — an unprecedented accomplishment.

First Place: High School Division

  • Xin Yi Chen
    Project: Fermented Food Waste and Plant Growth: A Greenhouse Study
    Mentor: Dr. Zhongqi (Joshua) Cheng, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, Brooklyn College
  • Allen Barbarovic
    Project: Link Between Systemic Cobalamin Deficiency and CNS Demyelination in a CD320/TCblR KO Mouse Model
    Mentor: Dr. Edward V. Quadros, Department of Biochemistry, SUNY Downstate Medical Center

Second Place: High School Division

  • Raquel Hosein
    Project: Application of a Wireless Electrical Device for the Detection of Epilepsy
    Mentor:Dr. Jonathan Viventi, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering

Third Place: High School Division

  • Chris Ayala
    Project: Encoding Information with Light’s Angular Momentum
    Mentor: Dr. Giovanni Milione, Department of Physics (Institute for Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Lasers), City College