Greenhills students honored at Detroit science and engineering fair
Two Greenhills Upper School students advanced to the State Science Fair and four others earned other honors at this week’s Science and Engineering Fair of Metro Detroit, held at Cobo Hall in downtown Detroit.
Aarushi Ganguly and Ana Taylor outside the senior forum.
Ninth-grader Aarushi Ganguly took 3rd place in mathematics for her project, and senior Ana Taylor took 3rd in microbiology. Both projects qualified for the State Science Fair, scheduled for April 1st at Kettering University in Flint.
Additionally, seniors Kelly Torolsky and Kirin Cromer won Blue Ribbon Outstanding Project Awards in the Biomedical and Health Sciences category. Tenth-grader Alex Choi earned a certificate from mathematics honors society Mu Alpha Theta, while senior Cameron Perrin was honored by the U.S. Navy with a letter of congratulations, a certificate of achievement, a medallion, and $50 gift card for his work.
More information about the competition is available at http://www.sefmd.org/.
Altogether, 14 Greenhills students participated in the competition. Here is a complete list, with their respective projects:
| First Name | Last Name |
Grade |
Title |
| Alex | Choi |
10 |
A Graph Theoretical Approach to the Financial Market |
| Julia | Friedman |
12 |
Correlates of the Aspiration-Expectation Gapin African American Adolescents |
| Aarushi | Ganguly |
9 |
Bayesian probablity technique to estimate Schziophrenia genes |
| Anirudh | Hirve |
12 |
Effects of E-Cigarettes on the Cardiovascular System – AAA Formation |
| Rahul | Kak |
12 |
Factors Impacting Suicide Related Risk-Factors Among Youth: Results from YRBSS |
| Sarah | Mcnally |
12 |
Parental Effects on Anxiety in African American and Caribbean Black Youth |
| Cameron | Perrin |
12 |
Diurnal and Weekly Variances in the Auditory Event Related Potential |
| Ana | Taylor |
12 |
HIV-1 V3 Provirus in CD4+ T Cells from Donor with Undetectable Viral Loads |
| Kelly | Torolski |
12 |
Finding Lead Protein Disulfide Isomerase Inhibitors For Glioma Treatments |
| John | Urquhart |
12 |
Variation in Zooplankton through the Detroit/St. Clair river system |
| Julian | Wellman |
12 |
Lower Bounds on Davenport-Schinzel Sequences with Zarankiewicz’s Problem |
