Lynbrook Students Host Science Symposium

The cafeteria was filled to capacity as students in Lynbrook High School’s Science Research program presented their work to family and friends during their annual end-of-year Science Symposium.

After months of lab research, painstaking measurement and record keeping, and days of intense competition, the students were more than ready to celebrate their accomplishments.

The symposium began with an informal viewing of presentation boards in the cafeteria, followed by classroom presentations by individual students. After the
classroom presentations, everyone met in the auditorium for the closing ceremonies.

Elementary students in the Voyager Program once again joined the high school
students, presenting the projects they developed for the ExploraVision competition. For the second year in a row, high school students acted as mentors, sharing their knowledge and skills with the younger students as they developed their projects for this competition.

This year, . Of those eleven, one student, —the sixth semifinalist produced by Lynbrook High
School since 2001. Kramer also qualified to compete at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in Los Angeles.

Among the other notable award winners were: Matt Guss and Mikayel Ayvazyan, who qualified for the I-SWEEEP international science fair in Houston; Jared Kahn, who was selected as a semifinalist in the 2010-2011 Young Epidemiology Scholars Competition; Ayman Kahn, who was named a regional finalist in the Junior Science and Humanities Symposium; and Jared Kahn and Jacob Kayen, who won awards at the New York Science and Engineering Fair.

In addition, one team of fifth-grade students from Waverly Park School and two Lynbrook High School teams earned honorable mention in the Toshiba/NSTA ExploraVision Competition. Students also won numerous awards at the Long Island Science Congress.

This article was submitted by Rosemary Leonetti of Syntax, public relations firm for the Lynbrook School District.