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Pleasantville Senior Wins Silver Medal at International Science Fair
Ana Malfa's research project on aRMS, a pediatric soft-tissue cancer, earned a silver medal at the 10th annual ISWEEEP olympiad.
Pleasantville High School senior Ana Malfa was awarded a silver medal in the Environment – Health & Disease Prevention category at the tenth annual International Sustainable World Engineering, Energy, Environment Project (ISWEEEP) olympiad held May 3-8 in Houston, Texas. Ana’s multi-year science research project focused on alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma (aRMS), an aggressive pediatric soft tissue cancer.
ISWEEEP featured posterboard presentations of 436 projects by 624 students from 42 states and 63 countries. Projects were grouped into four judging categories: Energy (67 projects); Engineering (107 projects); Environment – Management & Pollution (152); Environment – Health & Disease Prevention (110). In addition to one Grand Prize winner in each category, students were awarded Gold, Silver, and Bronze medals and Honorable Mention certificates. Organizers estimated that 4000 people attended the event's public access day.
Ana also was named one of 300 Scholars (semifinalists) by the national Regeneron Science Talent Search and was a gold medalist at the Westchester Science and Engineering Fair (WESEF). She conducted her research at Memorial Sloan Kettering under the guidance of her mentor, Dr. Mary Baylies. Ana will continue doing research at Brown University this fall, where she has been accepted into its 8-year medical program
