White Plains Students Compete In Tri-County Science Fair

WHITE PLAINS, NY — This past weekend White Plains High School hosted the 25th Annual Tri-County Science Fair, the only K-12 Science Fair in Westchester County. On Saturday, more than 300 students from Westchester, Rockland and Putnam counties presented their poster board projects to several judges.

In the high school division, 12 White Plains science research students competed with more than 140 other students in several different categories. White Plains Senior Kelly Marx placed third in the Physiological/Experimental Psychology category for her study titled "Neurological Results in Children, Teenagers and Young Adults with High Risk Sickle Cell Disease Who Have Received a Familial Haploidentical Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation."

Twelve other students, all juniors, also presented their research projects at the fair.

White Plains High School Science Research Program will hold its Annual Science Research & Engineering Symposium from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday May 22 in the White Plains High School Media Center.

Photo caption: Back row, from left, Kimberly Fleming, teacher of the White Plains Science Research Program, Lucia Rhode, Pilar Ceron, Kelly Marx, Joanna Falisi, Mayelin Ceballos, Nikolas O'Hanlon, Joseph Cantori, Eli Lichtblau. Front row, from left, Melissa Angel, Michelle Mahecha, Paulina Snyder. Gabriela Abreu is not pictured. Photo credit: Submitted.