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There were 33 students from the Hudson Valley selected to be Regeneron Scholars for 2021. (Shutterstock)
OSSINING, NY The top 300 scholars in the Regeneron Science Talent Search 2021 were announced Thursday by the Society for Science, and seven of the scholars go to Ossining High School. Congrats to our amazing students! district officials said in an announcement.
OHS had the most among the 33 students from the Hudson Valley reaching the Scholar level, followed closely by Byram Hills High School, whose science research program was the model for Ossining s extraordinarily successful 3-year program begun in 1997.
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The 300 scholars and their respective schools will be awarded $2,000 each.
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started. i think this is a progressive step forward that is typically unusual of denr. could this leak at the dan river plant have been prevented? was it was this the sort of thing that was foreseen, that people were worried about with those lawsuits they were filing? yes. this was absolutely 100% preventable, rachel. what we know is that these coal ash ponds, anytime they re storing toxic coal ash in an unlined hole in the ground adjacent to our surface waters, that there s a risk to the public. there s a risk to our drinking water, the public s right for swimmable, drinkable, fishable water to utilize for their recreation and for their personal benefit. and even though this spill is the outward sign, we saw the outward sign of the spill in kingston, tennessee in 2008, and this is the outward sign of a catastrophic failure here at the dan river, these plants, all 14 plants in north carolina are