Horace Greeley High's Jiayi Peng wins $50K science prize
Photo credit: Courtesy of Siemens | Jiayi Peng of Horace Greeley High School won the award for her study of how the brain's neuron networks fire and how those processes relate to conditions like Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, autism and epilepsy.
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A Chappaqua high school student took home the $50,000 second-place individual prize Tuesday morning in the national Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology.
Jiayi Peng of Horace Greeley High School won the award for her study of how the brain's neuron networks fire and how those processes relate to conditions like Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, autism and epilepsy. She...
