Roslyn High School students excelled in the 2022 NSPC Brain & Spine Surgery Health Science Competition held on May 18, 2022. Participants were invited to experiment and test any innovation in health science.
Roslyn junior Jessie Dong took 3rd Place in the Biochemistry/Biophysics category with her project entitled, “Natural is Not Neutral: Dangers of Natural Compounds Found in Supplements/Nutraceuticals and Therapeutic Mechanisms of Luteolin on Neuroblastoma and Lymphoma.”
Roslyn sophomores, Aasiya Zaidi and Hanah Youn, took 5th Place in the Medicine and Health Category with their project entitled, “Fight the Blue Light: The Effect of Dichroic Optical Filters on Blue Light Transmissions and Plant Photomorphogenesis.”
The first round consisted of hundreds of students from across Long Island submitting digital presentations for review by judges. The top ten projects in each of the five categories made it to round two, where students were invited to present their experiments live at the Center for Science Teaching and Learning.
“This competition was a wonderful experience for the students to present live and in-person to judges who are experts in their fields,” said Roslyn’s Coordinator of Secondary Research Dr. Allyson Weseley.