Sachem Celebrates Teaching and Learning

We are pleased to share with you the program for the Celebration of Teaching and Learning held on Tuesday, June 17th, 2008. We were fortunate to have over 100 teachers attend and 238 staff members recognized for their achievements and performance during this past school year. In the second year of this ceremony, we were able to honor several groups of teachers. All of these people volunteered their time and have gone above and beyond our expectations. I’m sure you will agree with me that these teachers are stellar employees and deserve recognition. Please pass on your appreciation to any one of them for making Sachem Sans Egal – without equal.
Click here to view the Celebration of Teaching and Learning program.

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Sachem's Science Research Program Award Winners and Highlights

The science research program provides excellent opportunities for students with an interest in pursuing the study of the sciences beyond high school. Dr. Michael Vaccariello (Sachem East) and Jamie Bhalla (Sachem North) are excellent resources for our students. They have established partnerships with local research facilities and universities.

The following summarizes our award winners and other highlights for the 2007-08 school year:

Sachem High School North

NYSEFF– Nebula Fair
- Marissa Romano, Samantha Swift, and Amanda Valdes
1st place, Behavioral & Social Sciences
Overall freshmen honorable mention: medallion and $25
- Christopher Melendez, Louis Piccirillo, and Betty Yeh
1st place, Cellular and Molecular Biology
Overall freshmen honorable mention: medallion and $25
- Charlotte O’Neill
1st place, Earth & Planetary Sciences
- Kimberly Burkart and Vashtidevi Mahadeo
2nd place, Environmental Science
- Kathryn Baumgartner, Brittany Wienclaw, and Patrick Quimby
2nd place, Behavioral & Social Sciences
- Dana Castro, Lauren Soohoo, and Caitlin Muller
3rd place, Animal Sciences
- Jessica McGlinchey
Honorable Mention, Animal Sciences
- Amir Rashed, Thomas Flaherty, and Sanah Chaudhry
3rd place, Environmental Sciences
- Christopher Atwater, Kimberly Kanakos, and Danielle McMahon
3rd place, Behavioral & Social Sciences
- David Miao, Christopher Weilbacher, and Michael Downer
3rd place, Environmental Sciences
- Krystal Cheng, Christine Murphy, and Amanda Schneider
3rd place, Behavioral & Social Sciences
- Matthew Lederer, Thomas Smith, and Armando Villa-Ignacio
2nd place, Behavioral & Social Sciences

Long Island Science Congress
- Brian Dwyer, 10th grade
3rd place, Earth, Science, and Energy
- Peter Miao, 11th grade
3rd place, Biology

Science Research Laboratory:
- Peter Miao: acceptance into Dr. Martha Furie’s Stony Brook University laboratory this summer to conduct research on Francisella tularensis, a category A agent of bioterrorism.

Cornell CALS Summer Science Program:
- Maggie Luebs: acceptance into Cornell’s prestigious One-Week College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) Program this summer.

Stony Brook LIGASE Summer Forensic Science Program:
- Brittany Wienclaw

Stony Brook MARIACHI Astrophysics Program
- Brian Dwyer

Envirothon: 1st place Nassau and Suffolk County and participation in NYS Championships
Maggie Luebs, Kelly McGlinchey, Alyssa Kenny, Jessica Thomas, and Kaitlyn Bosch

Sachem High School East

Simons Summer Research Fellowship
Stony Brook University, summer 2008
-Gabrielle Facquet

Long Island Science and Engineering Fair
Crest Hollow Country Club, March 2008
-Honorable Mention- Team/ Engineering
-National Society for Professional Engineers Award
- NOAA’s 2008 Taking the Pulse of the Planet Award
- United States Air Force Award
-Jarvis Julien & James Pastore

- Honorable Mention- Health and Medicine
- Arthritis Foundation Award
- Billy Marsiglia

-Ricoh Sustainable Development Award
-American Meteorological Society Award
-Student Award for Geoscience Excellence
-Jessica Michaels & Breanna Eng

-American Meteorological Society Award
-Akshay Gupta

New York State Science and Engineering Fair
New York Hall of Science, April 2008
Galaxy Fair for 9th graders:
1st place- Microbiology -Jaclyn Hellreich
1st place- Medicine and Health -Judy Wong
1st place- Engineering -Jimmy Ye
1st place- Energy -Nick Kochath & Dean Nicolai

Andromeda Division:
1st place- Microbiology -Angela Littlfield & Danielle Craft
1st place- Physics -Jessica Gutierrez
2nd place- in Chemistry -Pinar Kiran
3rd place- Microbiology -Samantha Dayton, Lauren Koster
3rd place- Environmental Science -Brittany Dippel, Emily Werkmann
3rd place- Environmental Management -Beverly Agtuca

Top Project in Environmental Science -Emily Werkmann

Intel Division:
-1st place- Animal Science
-U.S. Air Force Award
-$10,000 scholarship to Ohio Wesleyan University -Mohan Satish
3rd place- Behavioral Science -Gabby Facquet
3rd place- Microbiology -Aditya Ramesh

Long Island Science Congress
SUNY Farmingdale, April 2008
Awards TBA

-Varun Bhuchar
-Dickens Patwary

NYSSEF- Nebula Fair for 9th and 10th Grade
Long Beach High School, April 2008
Awards TBA

-Jessie Nagler
-Dania Malik
-Brandon David
-Kelly Taveras

Richard DiMartino Science Research Scholarship Award
-TBA

Biotechnology Summer Camp- Stony Brook University
-Mohan Satish
-Aditya Ramesh

Sachem East Science Research- Laboratory Assistants
-Johanna Pedersen
-Jordan Foster
-William Kennedy
-Mike Dougherty

The following students will be involved with summer research projects:

Nicole Mieczkowski (10th) SUNY Stony Brook- Alzheimer's disease research, Van Nostrand Lab.

Samantha Dayton and Nicole Cosme (10th) Mariachi Workshop at SUNY Stony Brook.

Akshay Gupta and Jessica Gutierrez (11th) Quarknet Program, BNL (full summer); and Mariachi Workshop at SUNY Stony Brook.

Victoria Harrison and Lorabelle Agtuca (9th) Minority High School Apprenticeship Program, BNL.

Beverly Agtuca (10th) Community Summer Science Program, BNL.

Billy Marsiglia won a $2,000 summer fellowship award from the Long Island Arthritis Foundation. He is doing his research in the Thanos Lab at BNL, and there is an award ceremony on June 30th for his accomplishment.

A number of juniors will be accepted into the High School Research Program at BNL. Dr. Vaccariello is working there, and creating a "FaST" - Faculty and Student Team, where he will be supporting students: Jose Castillo, Jessica Michaels, Ravi Budhan, and Valerie Theodore. The students are tenatively schedueld to work on Environmental Microbiology, and to collaborate with scientists from BNL and Dowling College.