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PMHS Students Participate In Regeneron Westchester Science and Engineering Fair
The Regeneron Westchester Science and Engineering Fair was on Mar. 4 and PMHS placed in major categories throughout the competition.
From PMHS: Pelham Memorial High School’s Science Research students had an incredible performance at the Regeneron Westchester Science and Engineering Fair on March 4.
The competition features more than 500 students from 38 Westchester and Putnam county high schools who showcase their multi-year science research projects, including individual and team poster presentations. Of the 38 schools in attendance, Pelham ranked 2 nd in the most amount of wins and awards and 75 percent of Pelham students that participated won recognition in their category.
Additionally, two Pelham students represented one-third of the six sophomores that participated and both placed 2 nd their category.
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Senior Megan Ploch won first place in the environmental sciences category and is a grand prize finalist moving forward to compete at the International Sustainable World Project Olympiad, (I-SWEEEP). The event brings together more than 700 students from over 60 countries whose projects have focused on sustainability in the areas of energy, environment and engineering.
Below are the full results:
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1st in Category
- Megan Ploch - Environmental Sciences
2nd in Category
- Emily Xue - Medicine and Health
- James Chandler - Animal Sciences
- Caitlin Wong - Behavioral and Social Sciences
- Francesca Di Cristofano - Cellular and Molecular Biology
- Patrick Roche and Quin Crowley - Mathematics
3rd in Category
- Rachel Radvany - Biochemistry
- Sarah Jacobson - Cellular and Molecular Biology
- Priya Varanasi - Environmental Science
- Nick Breskin and Conor McNulty - Mathematics
- Ehsan Ahmed - Medicine and Health
4th in Category
- Jillian Harrison - Behavior
- Alana Dvorkin and Jane Bryce - Behavior
- Wesley Pedone and Ben Hurd - Environmental Science
- Anais Leon Kelly and Maggie Mc Carroll - Medicine and Health
- Sam Imperato - Physics and Astronomy
- Dan Vozza - Medicine and Health
Special Awards
- Megan Ploch - Environmental Sciences
- Priya Varanasi - Environmental Sciences
- Bill Taubner - Engineering
- Sam Tsang - Medicine and Health
- Tony Terraciano - Medicine and Health
- Matt Rubbo and Owen Swanson - Engineering
- Alicia Ugenti and Richard Rookwood - Computational Biology / Bioinformatics
- Aidan Sisk and Brady Tolan - Environmental Science
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