3 Regeneron Finalists From Long Island Earn $25K Each

LONG ISLAND, NY — Three finalists from Long Island in the 2023 Regeneron Science Talent Search each earned $25,000.

Miah Margiano of St. Anthony's High School in Melville, and Emily Kim and Kevin Zhu, both representing Jericho High School, earned prizes in the talent search.
Margiano's project was "Potential Influence of LncRNAs in Tumor Regression: An Analysis of Prognostic LncRNAs in Neuroblastoma."

Zhu's was "Recurrent Repeat Contractions and Micro-Changing Short Tandem Repeats: Investigating Underrepresented Factors of Polymorphism in Human Cancers."
Kim's project was "The Dual Roles of Activated Carbon as an Adsorbent and Photocatalyst for Azo Dye Removal."

The full awards ceremony can be watched below:

More than three dozen students from across Long Island were named semifinalists, or Scholars, in the prestigious 2023 Regeneron Science Talent Search. Of the 300 Scholars, 38 of them were from Long Island.
The Science Talent Search then named 40 finalists, chosen from among the 300 Scholars. Those finalists competed for more than $1.8 million in awards during a week-long competition in Washington, D.C.

The 300 Scholars were selected from the 1,949 student-scientists who entered the competition. They were chosen based on their research, leadership skills, community involvement, commitment to academics, creativity in asking scientific questions and promise as STEM leaders demonstrated through the submission of their original, independent research projects, essays and recommendations.