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Next stop for LBHS hockey: the nationals By BRENDAN CARPENTER bcarpenter@liherald.com
Courtesy Rob Carson
Long Beach High School’s varsity hockey team will compete at the national championships in Irvine, California later this month for the first time in over 15 years.
Hockey is one of the most popular sports in Long Beach, with the high school team, the Marines, constantly drawing large crowds for games. But this season has been extra special, as the varsity ice hockey team is headed for the Chipotle-USA Hockey High School National Championship — something the squad has not accomplished in more than 15 years. The Marines will be playing for national hockey supremacy in Irvine, California, March 26 to 30. They will face off against squads from California, Ohio and Colorado. “A lot of things that the team has achieved have been through their effort,” the team’s head coach, Rob Carson, said. “When they work hard and they work together, that’s when the team’s successful.” In the county semifinals last season, Long Beach ContInued on page 10
L.B. teen to present at a top psychology conference By ANGElINA ZINGARIEllo azingariello@liherald.com
Isabelle DePalma, 17, of Long Beach, a senior at Sacred Heart Academy in Hempstead, has been selected to present her original research at the Association for Psychological Science Convention May 23 to 25 in Washington D.C. DePalma is one of 11 girls from the school chosen to present this year. “It felt like a big honor to me because of all the work I put into the paper, and researching and being a part of the research program at Sacred Heart for the past four years,”
DePalma said. She is among a select group of high school students who have been invited to take part in one of the field’s most prestigious international gatherings. The APS convention typically features research presentations from college undergraduates, graduate students and faculty from leading institutions such as Stanford, Princeton, Columbia and Georgetown universities. Fewer than 150 pre-collegiate researchers have been invited to present since the first conference 38 years ago — and 65 of them have come from Sacred Heart, where DePalma conducted her research.
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t felt like a big honor to me.
IsABEllE DePAlMA Senior, Sacred Heart Academy Her study, “Unveiling the Divisive Web,” explores how social media algorithms contribute to adolescent division, especially on sensitive topics like race, gender and politics. DePalma found that social media platforms tend to push divisive content to users, which has a larger impact on certain
demographic groups. “I found that women and minority adolescents perceive social media as more divisive than others, and the findings emphasize the need for media literacy to mitigate the algorithmic influence,” DePalma explained. “And I came to the idea because I did this during the election year, and during
the election year there was a lot of division on social media and in the news. So, I wanted to see how this translated to adolescents and how adolescents perceived this.” DePalma’s research was evaluated in a blind-review process, by judg es who were unaware that a high school stuContInued on page 4