Congratulations to Kai Saunders for her First Place win in the category of Earth and Space Science at the 2016 New York City Metro Junior Science and Humanities Symposium (JSHS). Kai moves on to the finals round Saturday, February 27. Joshua Pilipovsky received Third Place in the category of Physics.
The JSHS Semifinals were held at York College in Jamaica, Queens on Sunday, February 7, 2017. Individual students compete at JSHS for scholarships and recognition by presenting original research projects before a panel of judges and an audience of their peers. Midwood entered 11 students and had 7 semifinalists this year.
- Kai Saunders
was a finalist and received First Place for her project "Urban soils: Metal content in artifacts." Kai worked under the supervision of Dr. Zhongqi (Joshua) Cheng in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Brooklyn College. - Joshua Pilipovsky
was a semifinalist and received Third Place for his project "Accuracy of the Ising approximation in quantum computation." Josh worked under the supervision of Dr. Vladimir Tsifrinovich in the Department of Applied Physics at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering.
Midwood’s 7 JSHS Semifinalists: Kieran Bissessar, Joshua Pilipovsky, Nga Ying Lo, Victor Lee, Kai Saunders, Quetourah Dalencourt, Christine Ly
- Kieran Bissessar
was a semifinalist for his project "A new perspective on the lupus malady." Kieran worked under the supervision of Dr. Donald Gerber in the Department of Medicine at SUNY Downstate Medical Center. - Quetourah Dalencourt
was a semifinalist for her project "How does peer pressure affect one’s perception of beauty?" Quetourah worked under the supervision of Dr. Denis Pelli in the Department of Psychology at New York University. - Victor Lee
was a semifinalist for his project "Variations and similarities of nest construction behaviors amongst monk parakeets (Myiopsitta monachus) of identical and different nest sites." Victor worked under the supervision of Dr. Frank Grasso in the Department of Psychology at Brooklyn College. - Nga Ying Lo
was a semifinalist for her project "Development of an efficient synthesis of aryl trifluoromethylated compounds and the purification of products produced from reactions with vinylketenes." Nga Ying worked under the supervision of Dr. Wayne F.K. Schnatter in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Long Island University. - Christine Ly
was a semifinalist for her project "Capturing cancer cells with the use of microfluidic chips." Christine worked under the supervision of Dr. Weiqiang Chen in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering.