Preston High School hosts engineering conference for BX students
More than 100 students from various Bronx Catholic school participated in an engineering conference at Preston High School on Friay, November 15. Students
at the conference, who currently attend St. Barnabas High School, Academy of Mount St. Ursula, Maria Regina High School and St. Raymond High School for
Boys, took part in two breakout sessions about solar energy and phototherapy. During the ‘Solar’ session, students in attendance learned about the global need
for renewable energy, while the ‘Phototherapy-BioMedical’ session, students learned about phototherapy and its application of specifi c light wavelengths to
heighten immune systems to test certain medical conditions. In both workshops, students had the opportunity to build, design and test their models and later
determined the effectiveness of their solutions.
St. Barnabas students pose with their cut out. Photo by Jewel Webber Students during the engineering workshop.
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Photo by Jewel Webber
(l-r) Preston High School principal Jane Grendell, assistant
principal Andrew Pipchinski and Engineering Tomorrow staff
member Kristine Budill. Photo by Jewel Webber
Students during the engineering workshop. Photo by Jewel Webber
(l-r) Frantz Homicile; Manhattan College (computer engineering), Julien
Johnson; NYU Tandon (chemical and biomolecular engineering), Dominique
McBride; NYU Tandon (intigrated digital media), and Melody Njoku; NYU
Tandon (civil engineering major and construction management minor).
Photo by Jewel Webber
Academy of Mount St. Ursula students Amber Javonero, Mariana Hernandez,
Yanelis Perez, Diana Rosario, Tyler Agosto, Madison Atkinson with (r) Bill Woodburn,
founder of the Engineering Tomorrow program. Photo by Jewel Webber