Students dazzle at Science Symposium

Nearly 100 attended the Malverne school district’s annual Science Symposium at the high school gym on May 22. Roughly 45 high school students and 20 eighth-graders presented their projects at the 14th annual event.

Topics were selected by students, and ranged from how to fight the potentially deadly staph infection MRSA, the development of targeted cancer therapies as well as environmental projects.

Charles Vessalico, a science research teacher at Malverne High School, and Principal James Brown, said that the event was a success. “It was a great program,” Brown said. “People were incredibly impressed because our students were doing the kind of work that kids do in college.”

Superintendent James Hunderfund lauded all those students who participated in the event, and said that their “high quality” work made both parents and school officials proud.

“This is part of our district-wide science focus,” he said. “These kids have done extensive research, are very successful and always do good work.”