(March 6, 2018--) Four High Tech students attended the Junior
Science and Humanities Symposium (JSHS), hosted by Rutgers University School of
Engineering and sponsored by the U.S. Department of Army, Navy, and Air Force,
announced Dr. Joseph Giammarella, principal of High Tech.
The Northern New Jersey Regional Symposium of JSHS, in which High Tech
participates, serves as one of 48 symposia, where original experimentation in
the sciences, engineering, and mathematics at the high school level shine best
through poster presentations.
Judges
chose four outstanding High Tech Biomedical Science projects for competition in
the symposium. Sarah Bacha, a North
Bergen resident, presented her research via her poster depicting “Conditioning
of Mus musculus to Overcome Innate Behavior.” Bayonne’s Reika Hayashi offered her poster on “Examination
of Pathogenic Bacterial Biofilm Attachment on Soft Contact Lenses.” Furthermore,
Veeraj Shah of North Bergen conducted his experiment, “Determining the Optimal
Fibrous Scaffold for the Formation of a Tissue-Engineered Blood Vessel with
Endothelial Cells,” at Stevens University, offering a poster at the symposium,
too.
One High
Tech participant, Secaucus resident Mahek Virani, represented High Tech in the
Oral Presentation Session. Mahek conducted her research on “Road Rage
Reduction: Effects of Driving Experience When AMTAM is Utilized.” Her
experiment consisted of testing a device, known as “AMTAM,” an RGB LED Matrix
board preprogrammed with phrases like “Sorry,” “New Driver,” and “Emergency.” The AMTAM promotes human to human
communication and prevents feelings of aggression that can lead to road rage on
highways. Her results suggest that
younger drivers benefited the most from the device, since their feelings of
aggression reduced by more than 50% than other groups studied in the sample.
Virani won
Second Place for Oral Presenter and will not only receive a $1,500 scholarship,
but she will again represent High Tech on an expenses-paid trip to JSHS nationals
in Hunt Valley, Maryland, from May 2nd-5th. There, she will compete for up to $12,000 in
scholarships.
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| Mahek Virani |
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| Veeraj Shah |
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| Reika Hayashi |
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| Sarah Bacha |
