Deer Park Student Earns Award at Brookhaven Lab Elementary Science Fair

JFK Intermediate School student Brendan Eising of Deer Park receives a Proclamation from Legislator D’Amaro for receiving top honors as the 4th grade National Lab Elementary School Science Fair.  Pictured left to right are: Gloria Perry, Jill Eising, Kayley Eising, Paul Eising, Brendan, D’Amaro, JFK teacher Keri Inghilterra and JFK Principal Susan Bonner.

This article was written by Kaitlyn Piccoli. 

A Deer Park fourth grader was recently awarded at the 2013 Brookhaven National Lab Elementary School Science Fair. 

Brendan Eising, who attends JFK Intermediate School, won the fair's Fourth Grade Award with his project "Shake It Up."

To study this topic, Brendan built an electric circuit maze that his subjects were required to circumnavigate with a loop wand. If the subjects touched the maze’s wire with the loop wand, the electrical circuit was completed and a buzzer signaled the error. He timed the entire process evaluating the accuracy as well as the speed of the test subject. 

Brendan tested children, teens and adults ranging in age from 20 to 80 years old.  His research showed children and teens  had the most errors and longest times. Those participants in the 20 to 50 age group demonstrated improved results, while the 60 to 80 age group showed a marked decrease in accuracy and time. He was able to determine that fine motor skills improve with age and then decline later in life.  

In recognition of his achievement, Suffolk County Legislator Lou D’Amaro (D-North Babylon) presented Brendan with a Proclamation before his family, teacher, principal and the entire County Legislature during its monthly meeting.