Eduardo Ramirez of Peekskill, a junior at Stepinac High School in White Plains, recently joined the finalist ranks in the 2021 GENIUS Olympiad”™s international high school competition.
The academically top-performing student, who is a member of Stepinac”™s groundbreaking Honors Academy, was among 1,345 high school students from 85 countries who earned the top honor, competing in the fields of science, robotics, business, short film, art and creative writing. The finalists”™ projects will be showcased during a June 12 award ceremony which will be streamed over the GENIUS Olympiad YouTube Channel
For the same project, Ramirez also won a 2021 Regeneron WESEF (Westchester Science and Engineering Fair) Creative Approach to Research Award.
Named “Discovering predictive gene signatures in BRCA (breast carcinoma) patients via a novel hierarchical Bayesian Boolean matrix factorization framework,” Ramirez”™s research project analyzes the likelihood of inter-molecular conversations between the cancer cells to track, predict and prevent further spread of the tissue.
GENIUS (Global Environmental Issues and Us) Olympiad promotes a global understanding of environmental issues and the achievement of sustainability through basic science, arts, creative writing, engineering, design, and business development.
