Congratulations to Poojan Pandya for winning First Place in Microbiology at the Long Island Science and Engineering Fair!

Congratulations to the following students for placing at the Long Island Science and Engineering Fair:

Team of Jillian Parker (senior; HSW)

Joseph Bisulca (senior; HSW):4th place in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

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Poojan Pandya (junior; HSW): 1st place in Microbiology

Poojan, Jared, and Matthew represent 3 of the 20 selected Long Island projects to advance to the International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) in Phoenix, AZ from May 12-17, 2019.

Congratulations to HHH HS West Senior, Francisco Chong, on his recognition from the Scholastic Art Awards. Francisco received Two Silver Keys and One Gold Key Award at the Regional Level, and received a Silver Medal at the National Level. Less than 1% of the 300,000 entries received National Recognition. Francisco’s Art Teachers; Ms. Nourry, Ms. Donaldson, and Ms. Ievolo, are so proud of his creative accomplishments!

The New York State DECA 59^th Annual State Career Conference was held at the Rochester Riverside Convention Center on March 5-8, 2019.  There were over 3000 students, representing most of the 62 counties of NYS, who competed at the competition.  The competitions were either individual or team events consisting of a myriad of business topics. Twenty-nine HSW students participated in this challenge.  The HSW students earned one first place position, one fifth place position, 17 Top 10 medals, and 6 medals for the DECA Honor Society.  The students who placed 1^st and 5^th are eligible to represent NYS DECA at the International Career Development Conference (ICDC) in Orlando, FL on April 27- May 1, 2019.

Top 5 Winners

Sophia Sacchetti   First Place and One Medal

Alexis Rosenthal   Fifth Place and Three Medals

Top 10 Medal Winners

Tahana Ahmed

Julia Bloomstein

Garret Cincis

Kevin Devine

Dino Galanoudis

Daniel Guido

Akshay Kapur

Pamela Kreinces

Krish Malhotra

Poojan Pandya (3 medals)

Nicole Tang

DECA Honor Society Medals

Joseph Choi

Daniel DiGangi

Noah Gildin

Pamela Kreinces

Nova Shek

Penn Strum

Andreas Kaimis was selected as a finalist in the FIRST Robotics Dean's List Award competition.  Andreas was selected from a pool of over 1000 students across Long Island to represent our district and Long Island in Detroit at the FIRST World Championships in April.