Upper School Students Present STEMM Projects at Annual Symposium

Hawken Science Research III students took part in the 9th annual Bob Maciunas STEMM Research Symposium on Thursday November 9, presenting their projects before a panel of expert judges, families, and other guests.
Topics ranged from developing a ground-penetrating radar to Cuyahoga County Opioids to protocol for athletic training rooms to reduce the risk of infection among athletes.  
 
Special congratulations to Samia Menon '19, who took first place for her project, “Assessing the Feasibility of a Gesture-Based Communication Platform to allow Human-Robot Swarm Interaction through the Creation of a ‘Smart’-Glove”; Allison Sewell '19, who took second place for her project, “Development of Differentiation Therapies for NPM1 Mutated AML”; and Neil Tawari '19, who took third place for his project, “Investigation of the Adhesive Characteristics of Sickle Red Blood in Protein Immobilized Microfluidic Channels.” These three top winners will be going to the Northeast Ohio Science and Engineering Fair along with the following students: Adith Abraham ‘18, Sinan Aktay ‘19, Ella Attell ‘19, Marilena DeGennaro ‘19, Clayton Ferguson ‘19, Claudia Hamilton ‘19, Brennen Keuchel ‘19, David Lyons ‘19, and Victor Pan ‘19. Alternates are Ana Kasumov ‘19, Andrew Liu ‘19, and George Shum ‘19.
 
Many thanks to the STEMM judges and mentors, and congratulations to all symposium participants on their presentations. 
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