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<\/p>\nA Great Neck student\u2019s project on schizophrenia was named \u201cbest in fair\u201d at the New York State Science and Engineering Fair.<\/p>\n
Great Neck North High School senior Michael Lyakhov earned the top award at this year\u2019s state fair in late March, which was held at the New York Hall of Science in Queens. His project consisted of building an artificial intelligence system that analyzes brain scans to detect schizophrenia earlier and more accurately than existing methods.<\/p>\n
\u201cWinning \u2018best in fair\u2019 is honestly surreal,\u201d Lyakhov said. \u201cI\u2019m so grateful that science fairs gave me the opportunity to pursue research I genuinely care about, and this makes all of it feel worth it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lyakhov and 10 other local teens have advanced from the state level to the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair in Phoenix on May 9-15. They will be among about\u00a01,600 students worldwide competing for nearly $9 million in awards, prizes and scholarships, according to competition officials.<\/p>\n
The other students advancing and their high schools: Christina Bayne, Elmont; Amanat Jain, Garden City; Austin Jin\u00a0and Taisheng Wu, Great Neck South; Eliana Eisenberg, Half Hollow Hills East in Dix Hills; Aryana Adur and Xiaowu Lai, Jericho; Ethan Lin, New Hyde Park; Chrysta Thomas, Oyster Bay; and Humzah Mohsin, Valley Stream South.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe quality of this year\u2019s projects is exceptional,\u201d said New York State Science and Engineering Fair president Serena McCalla. \u201cWe\u2019re seeing students from across New York tackling real-world challenges with creativity, rigor and purpose.\u201d<\/p>\n
EAST SETAUKET\/ MASSAPEQUA<\/p>\n
MOCK TRIAL WINNERS<\/p>\n
Teams from Massapequa High School and Ward Melville High School in East Setauket won first place in this year\u2019s Nassau County and Suffolk County mock trial tournaments, respectively. Both have advanced to the state finals in Albany May 17-19.<\/p>\n
Participating teams acted as the defense and prosecution in a fictional case to demonstrate their knowledge of law and courtroom procedures, with local attorneys and judges evaluating their abilities. The competitions were held at Nassau County Supreme Court in Mineola and Suffolk County Supreme Court in Central Islip.<\/p>\n
The second-place teams were from The Wheatley School in Old Westbury and Northport High School.<\/p>\n
HEMPSTEAD<\/p>\n
MEDICAL MARVELS CONTEST<\/p>\n
A team from Sacred Heart Academy in Hempstead bested groups from 27 schools to win this year\u2019s Medical Marvels competition hosted by Northwell Health\u2019s Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research. The team received $1,800.<\/p>\n
The competition asked participants to submit research papers and deliver presentations featuring \u201cinnovative solutions for gun violence prevention and school safety,\u201d according to competition officials. Sacred Heart\u2019s team proposed ideas like promoting the use of firearm lock boxes in homes and installing AI-powered cameras to detect weapons in schools.<\/p>\n
The second- and third-place teams were from Half Hollow Hills High School West in Dix Hills and Freeport High School, respectively.<\/p>\n
ISLANDWIDE<\/p>\n
VISUAL ARTS EXCELLENCE<\/p>\n
Fifteen Long Island school districts have been named Communities of Excellence in Visual Arts and one has been named a School of Excellence in Visual Arts by the New York State Art Teachers Association. They are among 26 districts and five schools statewide to earn the designations.<\/p>\n
Long Island\u2019s designated districts were Babylon, Brentwood, East Rockaway, Hempstead, Hewlett-Woodmere, Hicksville, Locust Valley, Mattituck-Cutchogue, Mineola, Oyster Bay-East Norwich, Plainview-Old Bethpage, Port Washington, Tuckahoe, Valley Stream 13 and William Floyd in Mastic Beach. The designated school was The Wheatley School in Old Westbury.<\/p>\n
The selections were part of the association\u2019s VISION Endorsement, which honors schools and districts that support visual arts instruction using \u201ca sequential, standards-based curriculum while increasing inclusivity, equity and accessibility in arts education,\u201d association officials said.<\/p>\n
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\n\tMichael R. Ebert is an education researcher and has worked for Newsday in various capacities since 2003. He was part of an 11-person team named as 2008 Pulitzer Prize finalists for investigative coverage of the LIRR’s platform safety issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Great Neck student\u2019s project on schizophrenia was named \u201cbest in fair\u201d at the New York State Science…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[67,9,11,10,49,51,50,38754],"class_list":["post-225957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-education","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-togetherli"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}