Syosset duo collects science awards
A pair of Syosset High School students took home top honors from the 2014 Siemens Competition last month.
The competition is a national contest designed to recognize talented scientists early on. One of its goals is to encourage high school students to grow and challenge themselves in the sciences, math, and technology. Semi-finalists and students who receive special recognition from the contest have the opportunity to have their work recognized on a national level.
Syosset's two winning students, Jiwei Zhong and Elaine He, are both seniors. Both had their names posted on the contest's website. Dr. Giovanni Durante, the principal of the school, also praised the two students, telling the Syosset-Jericho Tribune that they were "wonderful ambassadors of Syosset High School". The school could use stationery printers to create certificates in the girls' honor.
Zhong performed the research for her project ‘Regulating the Catalytic Kinetics of Thiol-stabilized Gold Nanoparticle Polymer Composites’, at St. John's University. Her project involved creating a model that would use gold nanoparticle catalysts to produce more efficient energy fuel cells that produced zero waste.
He's project, ‘Identification of the target site of ADS-J1, the first small molecule HIV fusion inhibitor, using mutagenesis strategy’, looked at a way to prevent HIV from going into new hosting cells. Her research was performed at the New York Blood Center, in the Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute.
The competition is a national contest designed to recognize talented scientists early on. One of its goals is to encourage high school students to grow and challenge themselves in the sciences, math, and technology. Semi-finalists and students who receive special recognition from the contest have the opportunity to have their work recognized on a national level.
Syosset's two winning students, Jiwei Zhong and Elaine He, are both seniors. Both had their names posted on the contest's website. Dr. Giovanni Durante, the principal of the school, also praised the two students, telling the Syosset-Jericho Tribune that they were "wonderful ambassadors of Syosset High School". The school could use stationery printers to create certificates in the girls' honor.
Zhong performed the research for her project ‘Regulating the Catalytic Kinetics of Thiol-stabilized Gold Nanoparticle Polymer Composites’, at St. John's University. Her project involved creating a model that would use gold nanoparticle catalysts to produce more efficient energy fuel cells that produced zero waste.
He's project, ‘Identification of the target site of ADS-J1, the first small molecule HIV fusion inhibitor, using mutagenesis strategy’, looked at a way to prevent HIV from going into new hosting cells. Her research was performed at the New York Blood Center, in the Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute.