North Science Students Win Big at LI Youth Summit

Science students from Sachem High School North were honored last week at the Long Island Youth Summit at Dowling College for their video on water quality on Long Island.

Twenty eight students from Sachem participated in the overall event, but only five made the winning video, including Brianna D’Amato, Amanda Miller, Lauren Waka, Shayna Daly and Sam Swift.

Sachem’s winning students produced a video titled “Water we going to do?” about public awareness on the source of Long Island’s drinking water and the problems associated with water quality and conservation on Long Island.  

The winners received a $2,000 "gift of knowledge" and all other participants won a $500 "gift of knowledge" towards credits at Dowling.

All students who participated were placed into an interactive workshop to brainstorm solutions to current problems facing Long Island, according to Sachem science teacher and student advisor Monica Marlowe.

Depending on the workshop, each was led by experts in the fields of government, economy, environmental preservation, education, and community and non-profit activism fields, among others.  

At the end of the Summit all came together and select students spoke to the whole conference about their solutions to these problems that face their generation on Long Island.

Other Sachem students who participated:

Arbia, Melissa

Burkhart, Kimberly

Sardone, Sabrina

Griffin, Tehanna

Gonzalez , Britteny

Danielle White

DiChiara, Juliana

Isik, Jennifer

Kohout, Nicole

Worth, Erin

Katelin St. Onge

Nicole Nagy

Sarah DeGray

Katelyn Dibble

Caila Hendrickson

Danielle Noethiger

Danielle Quick

Kayla Krasner

Maxianne Russo

Caitlyn Green

Kelly Gochan

Jackie Mastrogiocomo

Kevin Keck