For details regarding the 2nd Annual HCHS Science Research Symposium on Wednesday, May 16 at 6 pm in the Auditorium, please click on this link: Research Symposium 2012 Flyer

The Social Studies Department congratulates members of the Euro Challenge team and their advisor Angela Sheldon on winning 2nd place in the Euro Challenge competition.  The following members will share a $5,000.00 cash prize and a trip to Washington DC where they will meet with the IMF and the European Union Delegation to the United States: Leo Elliot, Lucas Deysine, Tian Weinberg, Alex Geisler, Duncan Kimmel, Fandi Tang, Yoni Nachmany, Eric Blohm.

The Social Studies Department congratulates members of the History Bowl Team on winning the National History Bowl Championship in Washington DC in competition with 140 high school teams.  Congratulations to Richard Yu who took second place in the individual History Bee. Team members: Richard Yu, York Chen, Paul Maschetti, and Zihan Zheng.  David Xu was there to support the team and he served as a reader during the competition.

Congratulations to the following New York City Science and Engineering Fair Winners:
Andre Arslan ( Computer Science ) ISEF Finalist/NYCSEF First Award/ Yale Science and Engineering Association;  Anna Blech ( Microbiology ) NYCSEF First Award;  Olivia Briffault ( Medicine & Health Sciences ) NYCSEF First Award;  Kalia Firester ( Plant Sciences ) ISEF Finalist - First Alternate/ NYCSEF First Award;  Priscilla Guo ( Animal Sciences)/NYCSEF Second Award; Cheyenne Hua ( Mathematical Science) NYCSEF Third Award;  Ada Huang ( Earth & Planetary Sciences ) US Metric Association;  Eric Mannes ( Mathematical Science )/ NYCSEF Second Award; Maxine McGredy ( Medicine & Health Sciences )/ NYCSEF Second Award;  Chen Wei ( Cellular & Molecular Biology )/ NYCSEF First Award

Three Hunter College High School teams of tenth graders competed at the New York Section of Chemagination at St. John’s University on Saturday, March 31. Analise Rhode, Isabel Udo, and Miru Osuga won first place in the Alternative Energy category with an article about how anaerobic digestion could be used as an alternative energy source. Mira Nagarajan and Fandi Tang won first place in the New Material category with an article about how Polyisoprene potential for use in contraception. Sophia Siu, Purva Vaidya, and Stephen Leong competed in the Health/Medicine category with an article about the use of shuttle molecules in breaching the blood-brain barrier. Our 2 first-place teams now have the chance to go to the Regional competition at the University of Maryland in Baltimore that takes place on Saturday 6/2. For the full story and details of this news article, please click on this link.

Congratulations to Lily Chen and Willie Chen on earning qualifying scores on the Regional Chemistry Olympiad. Their scores qualified them to take the National Chemistry Olympiad on April 22nd where they will be competing to earn one of the 20 spots in training camp for the National Team to represent America at the International Chemistry Olympiad.

Congratulations to Chen Wei and Lily Chen, who have reached the semifinals in the Biology Olympiad for 2012. If they are successful in the next round of testing, they will move into national competition. The Biology Olympiad competition is offered each year for aspiring Biology Students.

Congratulations to Aaron Landesman, Andre Arslan, Lily Chen, and Jenny Nitishinskaya, who are semifinalists in the United States Physics Olympiad competition. They have taken the test to qualify for the United States national team.

History Day Competition Winners:
Charlie Bardey:  First Prize for his research paper “Lights, Camera, and the Future of America; The Culture War Surrounding the Reformation of the Nickelodeom in Turn of the Century NY” (Teacher/Advisor:  Satinder Jawanda); Olivia Briffault:  Second Prize for her research paper “Reforms in the New York Garment Industry” (Teacher/Advisor:  David Joffe).

Hunter Model United Nations Society Winners:
Martha Jachimski:  Award of Distinction at the Council of the European Union; Ella Cheng:  Award of Excellence at the Committee on the Rights of the Child Ilana Kaufman, Yu Jin Jung, Emma Smith and Nina Jaffe-Geffner: Plenary Speakers Delegation Award of Merit for Hunter College High School. (Advisors:  Satinder Jawanda and Angela Sheldon).