Daniel Goldsmith Named as Siemens Math:Science:Technology Competition Semi-Finalist

Daniel Goldsmith with Director of Research, Allen Sachs

Daniel Goldsmith has been named as a semi-finalist in the prestigious Siemens Math:Science:Technology Competition. Daniel’s selection places him in the top 10% of Siemens’ entrants, and NSHAHS is one of only 3 Yeshivot with winners. Daniel’s project was: “A Novel Search for Topological Charge Fluctuations in the Quark Gluon Plasma.”  He conducted his research work at Stony Brook University, this past summer, under the mentorship of Dr. Roy A. Lacey.  Daniel provided a new, successful method of analyzing a novel property in a newly found state of matter called the Quark Gluon Plasma.

With its high academic standards, rigorous judging process, and emphasis on authentic scientific research, Siemens has quickly become the leading science and mathematics research-based competition for high school students in the United States.

 

In conducting their research, students practice bona-fide, "real world" science research, experience the excitement of discovering or building something new, as well as gain personal satisfaction by initiating a project and seeing it through to completion.  Science competitions offer an external validation for the quality of a school's science program.  The higher academic expectations required to prepare a project for competition raise the bar for both the school's Science Research Program and for the student entrants.