Commack Elementary Students Place First In The Nation In Science & Math

Elementary Students Place First in the Nation for Science & Math

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Mandracchia Sawmill’s third and fourth grade National Science League Team, first in the nation, with advisors Lindsey Persichilli and Jen Turner.Mandracchia Sawmill’s third grade Continental Math Team (we’re # 1), with Principal Michelle Tancredi-Zott, Assistant Principal Evelyn Cardanes Smith, and advisors Michelle Goldstein and Stefanie Petrone.Commack’s National Science League Teams at Burr Intermediate School and Mandracchia Sawmill Intermediate School achieved highest national ranking across all three grade levels (third-fifth).

National Science League is a component of the Continental Mathematics League, Inc. The multiple choice questions that comprise each contest are based on the students’ Burr’s first place Continental Math fifth grade team, with Principal Paul Schmelter, and advisors Michele Quinn and Marianne Dorman.understanding of scientific Mandracchia Sawmill’s third and fourth grade National Science League Team, first in the nation, with advisors Lindsey Persichilli and Jen Turner.processes. Burr’s fifth grade team was the First Place National winner, coached by Leah Bernstein and George Morrish. Sawmill’s third and fourth grade teams also led the nation in this competition, each team clinching First Place nationally. Their team was coached by Lindsey Persichilli and Jennifer Turner.

National Student Leaders for the 2016 contest, who received perfect scores, included Sawmill third graders Christopher Perri, Kaitlin Foraker, Shivani Muthukumar, and Vanessa Schoenberg. Fourth grade National Student Leaders were Sawmill’s Ava Glick and Jordan Thakral.