Midwood Science brought home two of the top five awards at a new competition called Teptu. Kieran Bissessar won one of the two Second Place awards for his project on the disease lupus and Max Miloslavsky won one of the two Honorable Mention awards for his engineering project. Students from Hunter College High School won two awards that evening and Bronx High School for Science had one award winner.
- Kieran Bissessar
"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. - Max Miloslavsky
"MYEXOHAND." Max worked under the supervision of Dr. Victoria Bill in the Department of Student Programs at The Cooper Union.
Group photo with Kieran and Max holding certificates. Follow this link for more photos on the Teptu website.
Teptu, Inc. is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting educational opportunities and fostering awareness in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), Teptu STEM (sometimes called Teptu Brink) is a new science competition that hopes to build opportunities for upcoming STEM leaders in New York City and South Africa.
New York students submitted research papers to Teptu in February. These were then graded by an online judging panel of professors from top institutions. The top 50 entries were invited to present at a poster session held at Baruch College in March. Students were judged numerous times and were interviewed by the Teptu press corps and several curious Teptu staff. Students were also all asked how their ideas could be used in a business plan. Everyone was asked to imagine themselves as entrepreneurs. It was a unique and thoroughly enjoyable competition.