The Regeneron Science Talent Search has chosen to honor 16 North Hempstead students for their extraordinary projects this year.
On April 1, Supervisor Jennifer DeSena joined the North Hempstead Town Board in celebration of hosting the high school seniors who were recognized as winners of the competition. The Regeneron is the country’s oldest and most prestigious high school science research competition. It is meant to empower “our nation’s most promising young scientists who are developing ideas that could solve society’s most urgent challenges.”
The following winners included:
- Alaina Pinto (The Wheatley School)
- Emma Wen (Great Neck North High School)
- Jonathan Ahdout (Great Neck North High School)
- Anant Gupta (Great Neck South High School)
- Sarah Sun (Great Neck South High School)
- Tiffany Liu (Great Neck South High School)
- Dean Chen (Paul D. Schreiber High School)
- Sadelle Poulson (Paul D. Schreiber High School)
- Armaan Vaswani (Herricks High School)
- Caitlin Lee (Herricks High School)
- Sandeep Sawhney (Herricks High School)
- Serena Chen (Herricks High School)
- Shannon Hong (Herricks High School)
- Emily Zhao (Manhasset High School)
- Julian Sethna (Manhasset High School)
- Fatimah Badoolah (Mineola High School)
“Our town is only as successful as our next generation of residents, and I think it’s safe to say we’re in pretty good hands,” DeSena said. “We’re endlessly proud of all our local students, and I’m glad we got to shine the spotlight on our extraordinary Regeneron winners.”