Two High School North students Amar Desai and Abhinav Raghunathan received third place in a competition hosted by the Department of Technology, Culture, and Society at NYU that challenges high school students to develop solutions for problems in Sustainable Urban Environments, Science and Technology Studies, or Integrated Digital Media. In addition to the third place honor, Desai and Raghunathan received scholarships to NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering.
Their proposal, “The Applications of Big Data on Modern Medical Practices,” was submitted in the area of Science and Technology Studies. In the first round of the competition, each team presented a proposal using big data consisting of a solution to some problem in the medical field. In the final round each team had to write a research paper regarding its proposal and solution. The two students developed Greenpulse, an online interactive database that gives the user prompt questions in response to a series of symptoms to find the most accurate possible diagnosis. Laura Wheeler, a teacher at High School North, is their mentor.
