9 LI teens regional finalists in Siemens Competition
Photo credit: Handout | Salonee Shah, 17, W. Tresper Clarke High School, East Meadow: Team project searching for an ideal biological scaffold on which to grow skin tissue for burn victims.
9 LI teens make Siemens Competition finals
As teenage science whizzes introduced themselves at a Stony Brook University workshop last summer, Michelle Leonetti of Long Beach found herself impressed with the attitude of a fellow 12th-grader from East Meadow.
At one point, the other student, Salonee Shah, described her frustration at scoring what she considered a wholly inadequate 94 out of 100 on an Advanced Placement test in physics.
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