Four NA Students Attend Harvard Science Research Conference.
When Siddarth Chalasani '22 was going to attend the Harvard Science Research Conference (HSRC), he wasn’t expecting to run into a few fellow Newark Academy students. But speaking to his good friend Ethan Lee ’22 about their weekend plans before the mid-October event, they realized they were both headed to Cambridge, MA for the HSCR. Kristin Tsay ’21 and Andrew Hwang ’20 rounded out the quartet of NA students in attendance.
The HSRC is a two-day conference offering a series of speakers, workshops and mentoring sessions designed to encourage and promote interest in the natural sciences as well as research for the exceptional high school students from across the world to develop their interest in the natural sciences and in research. By facilitating exposure to some of the most important ongoing developments in all facets of the sciences, promoting the acquisition of fundamental skills in public speaking, writing, and reading for the sciences, and proving individualized mentoring by Harvard students to courage conference participants to pursue future study and career in the sciences.
“They gave us an idea about what the field is like, and how to go about doing research, how you pursue it, what the research atmosphere is like,” Siddarth said.
Students got a sense of what to look for when applying to college to attend, applying for the two-day program thanks to NA’s STEM Opportunities page. The site can be accessed through MyNA and has school year and summer STEM opportunities and STEM competition and events available to students.
“Not many people talk about the STEM opportunities page on the NA website, but I feel like a lot more people should take advantage of it,” Siddarth said. “It’s a really important tool to have.”
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