Ward Melville Students Named Intel Semifinalists

Two Ward Melville High School students are among 43 Long Island high school seniors named semifinalists in the prestigious Intel Science Talent Search.

Jessica Ju, 18, and Eric Edward Wang, 18, got the news on Wednesday that they were in an elite pool of 300 students nationwide to be selected as semifinalists.

From that pool, 40 finalists are then invited to Washington, D.C,. 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.

Jessica’s research project is entitled “Using Python to Apply Phonological Rules for the Transcription of Korean.” Eric’s is “A Novel Approach to Water Desalination: Reverse Osmosis by Fabrication of Graphene Oxide Membranes.”

Congrats to Jessica and Eric!

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