Nyack Science Students Enter Competition

Six seniors at Nyack High School presented their scientific research to an eager crowd and panel of judges earlier this month.

The Westchester-Rockland Junior Science and Humanities Symposium hosted Edwin Augustin, Felicia Ryan, Dana Seag, Emily Cea, Sierra Raglin, and Christopher Lazarus of Nyack High.

Each student turned in a 20-page paper on original research, and "were selected from a highly competitive pool of science research students," school officials said.

Five of the six students—Edwin, Felicia, Dana, Emily, and Sierra—were selected from hundreds to discuss their research in front of a panel of judges.

Students' projects were:

• Emily Cea - "Sugar Consumption in Adolescents through Beverage Intake"

• Sierra Raglin - "The Effects of Organic Nutrients on Biological Oxygen Demand in the Hudson River"

• Felicia Ryan - "Parkinson's Diseased Proteins in Relation to Autophagy"

• Dana Seag - "The Effects of Time-of-Day and Age on the Cost and Content of the Wandering Mind"

• Christopher Lazarus - "Does the Power Demand of Personal Computers Depend upon the Activity?"

• Edwin Augustin was awarded a third place ribbon for his research, entitled "Fourier Series Harmonics from 200 Giga-electronvolt Gold-Gold Collisions," and has been invited to present his research at the Upstate New York Junior Science and Humanities Symposium at SUNY Albany in March.