Irvington HS Students Recognized For Science Research

RIVERTOWNS, NY — Five Irvington High School students were recognized for their research Jan. 28 at the Junior Science and Humanities Symposium held at John Jay High School.

According to a district spokesperson, Taila Ruoff won fifth place as a regional speaker in the Physical Science category. Ryan Liu won third place as a regional speaker in the Medicine and Health II category. Canaan Sales-Spar won fourth place as a regional speaker in the Plant and Earth II category. Meika Tomika won first place as a local speaker in the Neurology and Genetics IV category. Olivia Yin won third place as a regional speaker in the Behavior I category.

The symposium is a Department of Defense-sponsored STEM program that encourages high school students to conduct original research in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. It also publicly recognizes students for outstanding achievement.

Liu, Sales-Spar and Yin also qualified to compete as poster presenters at the Upstate New York Junior Science and Humanities Symposium on March 8-9 at the University at Albany.

The students teachers are Amy Ma and Nadia Parikka.