5 Ossining Students Named Intel Semifinalists

Aaron Maxwell Spring, 17, was recognized for Sediment Size and River Bottom Composition Affects the Settlement of Juvenile Anguilla rostrata in the Hudson River.

Charles Gulian, 17, was recognized for his project, A Search for Tidally-Distorted White Dwarf Binaries in the Kepler Survey.

Juliet Adela Ivanov, 17, worked on Investigating the Protective Effects of Interleukin 22 on Intestinal Epithelium:
Potential Novel Graft versus Host Disease Treatment.

David Leibert, 17, was recognized for Sleep-Dependent Consolidation of Spatial Memory Changes with Aging.

Brinda Ramesh, 17, worked on Examining the Development of Multisensory Integration in Speech Processing
Through the McGurk Illusion.

The Intel Science Talent Search (Intel STS) is the nation’s most prestigious pre-college science competition. Alumni of STS have made extraordinary contributions to science and hold more than 100 of the world’s most coveted science and math honors, including the Nobel Prize and National Medal of Science.

Annually, students entering the Intel STS compete for more than $1.6 million in awards. Only 300 students are announced as semifinalists each year.

From this select pool, 40 finalists are then invited to Washington, DC in March to participate in final judging, display their work to the public, meet with notable scientists, and compete for three top awards of $150,000 each.

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Editor’s Note: Aaron Spring, one of the five Ossining High School students who made it to the semifinalist level in the 2015 Intel contest, was left out of the original version of this article. Patch regrets the error.

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