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Kennedy High School junior Rebecca Jellinek, 16, was recently named a finalist at the Long Island Science Congress in a field largely composed of seniors. She was joined here by one of her research advisers, Kennedy Advanced Placement biology teacher Barbi Frank.

Barbie project earns Kennedy junior accolades

The Barbie doll, long lambasted as a caricature of the modern woman — impossibly thin, vacuous, at times scantily dressed — may be good for girls’ diets. That was the surprising finding of a science research project conducted over the past year by Rebecca Jellinek, 16, a junior at Kennedy High School in Bellmore. Jellinek questioned 104 local girls, ages 6 to 8, about their food preferences after they played with one of two dolls — Barbie or Tracy Turnblad, the “full-figured” leading character in the movie musical “Hairspray.” more

By Scott Brinton | 6/5/13

Three Kennedy High School seniors did well at the recent Long Island Science and Engineering Fair. They were, from left, Greg Manis, Amanda Lindner and Matthew Gallitto. Manis took first place, which earned him a trip to California to compete in the International Science and Engineering Fair.

Kennedy researchers score big at L.I. science fair

Kennedy senior Greg Manis describes himself as “chief geek” of the high school’s science club. To begin to understand Manis’s world, you probably have to be one of the club’s assistant geeks. more

By Scott Brinton | 4/6/11

Kennedy High School had the work of four researchers accepted by the Long Island Junior Science and Humanities Symposium at Stony Brook University recently. They were Daniel Bornstein, left, Jeremy Roberts, third from left, Morgan Drucker and Stephanie Sager, who were joined by one of their research mentors, Advanced Placement biology teacher Barbi Frank.

Science students clean up at symposium

Ninety of Long Island's top science and mathematics students recently convened at SUNY Stony Brook's Charles B. Wang Center to compete in the prestigious Long Island Junior Science and Humanities Symposium, and in the crowd were five -- count 'em, five -- young Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District researchers, all seniors -- four from Kennedy High School and one from Calhoun. more

Scott Brinton | 4/20/10

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