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Jericho students named Syosset schools head discusses Covid Regeneron Scholars strategies BY RIKKI MASSAND
Regeneron Scholars Ethan Wang, Janice Rateshwar, and Sara Chan.
Three Jericho seniors were named Regeneron Scholars – a total of 300 students nationally were named Scholars. This contest was formerly known as the Intel Science Talent Search. The three Jericho students are Sara Chan, Janice Rateshwar, and Ethan Wang. The 300 scholars and their schools will be awarded $2,000 each. The Regeneron Science Talent Search scholars were selected from 1,993 applications received from 659 high schools across 49 states, Washington, DC, Puerto Rico, Guam and eight countries. Scholars were chosen based on their exceptional research skills, commitment to academics, innovative thinking and promise as scientists and hail from 192 American and
Photo by Denise Nash international high schools in 39 states and Guam. The projects are:
Sara Chan
Project Title: A Study of Polarization in Media During the Age of Media Consolidation and Social Media through a Sentiment Analysis of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal
Janice Rateshwar
Project Title: Novel Small Molecule 9-chloro-8-(hexyloxy)-2H-chromeno[2,3-d] pyrimidine-2,4(3H)-dione (IT-848)* Treatment of Hematological Malignancies: IT-848 Directly Inhibits NF-KAPPAB See page 10
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At the Syosset Board of Education meeting held at South Woods Middle School on February 7, Superintendent of Schools Dr. Thomas Rogers looked ahead to the second half of the school year, as the pandemic finishes its second year. Syosset Central School District recorded 574 confirmed COVID-19 positive cases overall in school year 20202021, but halfway through the current year (as of the first week in February) the district had seen over 1,700 positive cases THIS school year. From December 1, 2021 through the beginning of February there had been over 166,000 new confirmed COVID-19 positive cases in all of Nassau County. New York State has improved its supply of Rapid COVID-19 testing kits to the school district, as the administration noted an “ample supply” as the week off from school approaches. Dr. Rogers explained the good news with a recent decline in COVID-19 activity – the daily new COVID case rate has fallen, from 450 positive cases per 100,000 people to 34 per 100,000. “Even though we have fallen a lot, the actual raw number of cases in circulation right now is still higher than where we were at the peak of the Delta variant’s surge. If the numbers keep falling at this rate they are going to fall through that floor soon. To provide you with a sense of just how many
confirmed cases there are, in the last two weeks (from January 23 through February 6) there have been 8,700 cases in Nassau County vs. 6,900 cases in the entire month of October 2021, when we were experiencing the Delta variant peak. We are definitely going in the right direction but we are not quite out of the woods yet. I do think we are in a much better place than we were in spring a year ago, and spring of 2021 was actually very good as we saw positive case counts go very low, and we saw a lot of activities get restored. Compared with the first half of 2021, we now have the advantage of vaccinations as well as therapeutics and a much less virulent variant in circulation in Omicron. For all of those reasons, this spring does look like we’re in better shape than we were last spring,” Dr. Rogers said. Future considerations for Syosset Central School District include anticipating a possible rise in cases again due to the schools’ break for students and faculty. Travel was cited as a potential trigger for another surge upon the return to school after winter break. The district will be closed for classes for Presidents’ Week, Monday February 21 through Friday February 25. “Obviously our February break will result in travel and the district saw a tremendous increase after the late December-early January break and to See page 10
District builds new treatment plant PAGE 17 Public skating sessions during break PAGE 4