Lakeland/Panas Students Place at Science and Humanities Symposium

The following was provided by the Lakeland School District: students took two third place and one fifth place in the 11th annual Westchester-Rockland Junior Science and Humanities Symposium in early February at John Jay High School in Cross River, New York.

Elizabeth Sillcocks (Is Nutritional Education in Schools Causing an Increase in the Rate of Children Diagnosed with Eating Disorders?) took third place for her poster in Behavioral Science (WPHS- Grade 11) while Tanay Bhandarkar (Dark Matter Detection in Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies) was third for his poster in Physical Science  (WPHS- Grade 11).  They are both juniors at Panas.

Meanwhile,Senior Michael Perrone (Improved Physical Modeling: A Nonlinear Model Alternative to Compute-Intensive Absorbing Boundary Conditions) took 5th place as a speaker in Physical Science  (LHS- Grade 12).

The students are all members of the district's science research program.

The symposium challenges and engages students in science, technology, and engineering. Individual students present the results of their original research efforts before a panel of judges and an audience of their peers.

The Lakeland District Science Research students will now participate in the Westchester Engineering and Science Fair (WESEF) on Saturday, March 10 at Sleepy Hollow Middle School.