With all of the basketball championships and theatre productions going on around this busy end-of-winter season, it’s at times easy to forget the many academic accomplishments that our students  here at OHS have managed to achieve – and achieve they do.

This weekend, Ossining sophomores, juniors, and seniors competed in the 2016 Westchester Science and Engineering Fair (WESEF), competing against other students from the region for a chance to move on to the international levels of the Society for Science & the Public-run events. This year saw five Ossininauts move on to that next stage of competition, Michael Earle, Charlotte Keeley, Sarah Fendrich, Matthew Forman, and Jack Lepkowski.

This follows the recent success of our science research students in the Junior Science and Humanities Symposium (JSHS) held in Albany last week, in which a number of students placed highly in their categories and one, Charlotte Keeley, successfully moved on to the next national level competition.

These winners, along with category and special awards winners from WESEF, are listed below this article.

Also worth noting, Soon Il Higashino, our own resident Intel STS Finalist, and valued staff member of The Current, is currently in Washington, D.C. for the last leg of her own science research journey. Not only will she be presenting her research to panels of judges, in a similar fashion to the students at WESEF this past weekend, but Soon Il has the opportunity to meet none other than United States President Barack Obama as part of the fair’s festivities. Her status in the competition is unknown at the moment, but more updates will be given in the future.

Whatever the case, it’s students like these who help make OHS such a great school. Keep up the great work, guys!

JSHS Winners:

Charlotte Keeley – 1st place in Biology and Environmental Science

Julia Riley – 2nd place in Cellular and Molecular Biology

Alina Campbell – 2nd place in Biology and Environmental Science

Yasir Khan – 3rd place in Biomedical Sciences

Claire Sukumar – 3rd place in Behavioral Sciences

WESEF Winners:

Kiran Goveas – 1st place Animal Science

Sarah Fendrich and Zoe Scheier – 1st place Behavior

Zachary Silbert – 1st place Earth & Space Science

Yasir Khan – 1st place Microbiology

Michael Earle – 1st place Physics & Astronomy

Charlotte Keeley – 1st place Plant Science

Kimberly Badger – 2nd place Animal Science

Sasha Souillard – 2nd place Behavior

Julia Riley and Lorenzo Muranelli – 2nd place Biochemistry

Lior Raz-Farley – 2nd place Cell & Molecular Biology

Adriana Scanteianu – 2nd place Computational Biology/Bioinformatics

Cen Chen – 2nd place Physics & Astronomy

Benjamin Feinstein and Claire Sukumar – 3rd place Behavior

Jane Mundadan and Michelle – 3rd place Biochemistry

Nick Tremaroli – 3rd place Computer Science

Alina Campbell – 3rd place Environmental Science

Reid Komosa, Sandy Castillo, Pedro Montes de Oca III, and Oliver Krupinski – 4th place Animal Science

Jesse Bernstein – 4th place Behavior

Nikhil Shah – 4th place Biochemistry

Mark Zhinin – 4th place Cell & Molecular Biology

Niholas San Martin – 4th place Engineering

Brianna Cauthen – 4th place Medicine & Health

Madeline Zarro – 4th place Microbiology

Kevin Grigera and Gregory Vutera – American Psychological Association Award

Yoo Shin Tanai – ASM Materials Education Foundation Award

Jason Aguirre and Marcus Roman – ASU Walton Sustainability Solutions Initiative

Kristen Minihan – Mu Alpha Theta Award

Reid Komosa, Sandy Castillo, Pedro Montes de Oca III – NASA Earth System Science Award

Ben Radhuber – National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s 2016 Taking the Pulse of the Planet Award

Annalee Tacuri – Society for In Vitro Biology Award

Jason Aguirre – Stockholm Junior Water Prize

Julian Ivanov – The Walter Kass Memorial Award for Excellence in Behavioral Science

Kimberly Badger – Greg Horrace Award

Jennifer Meikle – Teatown Young Naturalist Award Sponsored by Teatown Lake Reservation