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Six Roslyn Students Qualify for NYS Science Congress
On June 8, 2025, six Roslyn High School students competed in the New York State Science Congress. The students qualified through their stand-out performance at the Long Island Science Congress held at the Cradle of Aviation on April 7, 2025, where the students presented the studies they completed in the Introduction to Research class that serves as the high school's entry point into the Research Program.
Zara Cooper, Anne Goldstein, and Abigail Sonoda ran an experiment to look at the effect of spelling and grammatical errors in an email on perceptions of students. "With the growing concern that students' skill in these areas are declining, this is a timely and important issue to investigate," said Dr. Allyson Weseley, who runs the district's Research Program and mentored the team on the study. Interestingly, the girls found that while spelling errors lowered perceptions of the email's author, grammatical errors did not.
Anannya Anand, Navya Gupta, and Vanessa Theodos explored the ability of dandelion extract to inhibit bacterial growth. They found that the root of the plant was effective in limiting the spread of a harmless strain of E. Coli, which raises the possibility that it might be able to have a similar effect on pathogenic strains. Ms. Sunita Gupta supported the girls' work in the lab, and Ms. Andrea Pearlman assisted both groups in preparing for competitions. They took home an Honor Award for their project.