04/04/08 - Greenwich Post News Links

Academic adviser Daryl Taylor poses with Russell Slater, George Hansel, host Tom Appleby, Ryan Chou, Ryan Fazio and Iacopo Lash.

Greenwich High School advances in academic challenge

Following its first-round victory, the academic team from Greenwich High School is moving on to the second round in The Challenge, an academic quiz show designed to test students’ knowledge in a Jeopardy-style format. The second round match-up between Greenwich High School and Weston High School will air exclusively on News 12 Connecticut at 6:30 and 9:30 p.m. Saturday, April 5, with an encore airing the next night, Sunday, April 6, at 6:30 and 9:30 p.m.

Weekend famine aims to help hungry people

Members of The First Church of Round Hill will participate starting today in a 30-hour famine to raise awareness and money to fight global hunger.

American studies lectures begin Monday at Bush-Holley

The front porch of Bush-Holley House, where artists and writers gathered to debate the issues of the turn-of-the-century, is the inspiration for study lectures presented by The Historical Society of the Town of Greenwich at Bush-Holley Historic Site.

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03/24/08 - "They did a fantastic job," said teacher Andrew Bramante, who runs a research class at GHS

GHS students nab top science honors

Greenwich Time - Greenwich,CT

These projects, along with those of nine other Greenwich High School students, recently captured top honors at the Connecticut Science Fair. ....

...Eliana Carmona, 16, of Greenwich, drew her inspiration from watching a sister with diabetes get regular insulin shots. Seeing the pain her sister goes through and having herself an aversion to needles, Eliana decided there must be a better way to give insulin...

... Eliza McNitt, 16, of Greenwich, came upon her idea after being warned against eating an apple without washing it because the skin might carry the residue of pesticides used in the orchard....

... Harris Davidson, 18, of Old Greenwich, decided wine would be the subject of his project, testing to see what type of bottle top would best keep the wine unchanged months from its initial uncorking....

... Other projects included one by a senior, Courtney Fogwell, and ninth-grader Likhitha Aidunuthula, who together discovered in lab tests that when exposed to water and high temperatures, rubber pellets used to create the artificial turf fields at Greenwich High School leached traces of a toxin....

... Michael Tom, 15, of Greenwich, experimented with a more efficient way of extracting energy from human biowaste, which may in the future help provide an alternative to using fossil fuel.

Sophie Voss, 16, of Riverside, discovered that the amount of a hormone, cortisol, found in tears shed while crying varies depending on the stress a person is under. Her project looked at how the chemical make-up of tears could help predict a person's vulnerability to stress-related diseases.

Michael Miller, 17, of Old Greenwich, experimented with instant messaging and ways to flag possible identify theft or unauthorized use of a person's instant messaging account.

Other science fair winners from the class include Jessica Blanton, Ryan Chou, George Hansel and William Newberry.

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