Briarcliff Students Place at Westchester Science & Engineering Fair

From the Briarcliff Manor Union Free School District: Briarcliff High School’s science research students boasted a strong showing at the annual Westchester Science & Engineering Fair, held at Sleepy Hollow High School. Briarcliff students were among the more than 550 participants who presented to 300 plus judges throughout the day.

Science research teachers Melissa Carnahan, Kim Dyer, Michael Inglis and Annemarie O’Brien offered their congratulations to the day’s award-winners, including the following students who received special awards:

• American Meteorological Society Award: Kaveri Gowda
• American Psychological Association Award: Kieran Roth
• Association for Women Geoscientists Award: Kaveri Gowda
• Stockholm Junior Water Prize: Kaveri Goda
• Walter Kass Memorial Award: Maria Capasso
• Yale Science & Engineering Association Award: Farhannah Mohideen

Special congratulations to the following best in category award winners:

• 1st Place in Behavioral Science: Ava Goldwyn
• 2nd Place in Cellular and Molecular Biology: Jacqueline Contento, Samantha Manimala
• 3rd Place in Behavioral Science: Grace Boyar, Georgia Minkoff
• 3rd Place in Environmental Science: Kaveri Gowda
• 3rd Place in Medicine and Health: Lauren Ballini
• 3rd Place in Microbiology: Lin Xie
• 4th Place in Animal Sciences: Lindsay Shapiro
• 4th Place in Astronomy and Physics: Benjamin Shi
• 4th Place in Cellular and Molecular Biology: Lucas Benson
• 4th Place in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics: Aidan Bohan
• 4th Place in Environmental Science: Joseph Raphael
• 4th Place in Medicine and Health: Hannah Gelfand, Edison Ho
• 4th Place in Microbiology: Steven Orientale

“The science research team and Briarcliff High School community are so proud of our students and their achievements,” the science research teachers said in a joint statement.

Photo courtesy of the Briarcliff Manor Union Free School District