During the February 24 meeting of the full Nassau County Legislature, Deputy Minority Leader Arnold W. Drucker (D – Plainview) joined with his colleagues in honoring Nassau County’s Regeneron Science Talent Search semifinalists and finalists.
Deputy Minority Leader Arnold Drucker (D-Plainview) had the privilege of welcoming a total of seven semifinalists to the Peter J. Schmitt Memorial Chamber of the Theodore Roosevelt and Executive Building – each of whom excelled in the competition and earned $2,000 prizes and an additional $2,000 award to advance science education at their respective schools.
The Legislative District 16 semifinalists and their school districts are:
- Jericho High School — Jun Chen (Role of Active Vitamin D on Reserved Intestinal Stem Cells), Keita Takahashi (Mechanisms of KN1 mRNA Transport in Arabidopsis thaliana) and Natalie Tehrani (Optimizing Real-Time Interictal Epileptiform Discharge Detection Through the Implementation of a Hilbert Transformer)
- Syosset High School — Michael Ren (Repurposing MALDI-TOF MS for Effective Antibiotic Resistance Screening in Staphylococcus epidermidis Using Machine Learning) and Winston Zhou (Discrete Wavelet Multiview-Based Parallel Hybrid Deep Learning Model for Forecasting El Niño–Southern Oscillation Cycles)
- Plainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School – Chloe Yerin Lee (Exploring the Effects of Cannabidiol-Medium Triglyceride Oil on Locomotion and Tap Withdrawal Response Using Caenorhabditis elegans as a Model for Alzheimer’s Disease)
- The Wheatley School – Alaina Brooke Pinto (Visualizing the Impact of Interleukin-32 on Tight Junction Integrity and Nuclear Morphology From Glioblastoma Metastasis in Human Endothelial Cells)
“Nassau County’s schools are among New York State and America’s best, and our commitment to education is rewarded each year by the outstanding achievements of our students in the Regeneron Science Talent Search,” Drucker said. “It fills my heart with pride and hope to see how these impressive young scholars immerse themselves in their research – and their enthusiastic pursuit of knowledge has the power to change the course of human history for the better. I congratulate each of these outstanding scholars and wish them all the best in their future endeavors!”