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Students sail into STEM By ABBY GIBSON Intern
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The sound of hair dryers and excited third-, fourth- and fifth-grade students and their parents echoed down the halls of Uniondale Avenue Elementary School last weekend as competitors took part in a Sailboat Challenge at the second session of Super Science Saturday. Students and parents gathered in the school’s cafeteria on Jan. 31 for a districtwide initiative, to learn about design, force and motion through hands-on learning and experimentation. At the first Saturday session, on Oct. 11, the focus was on engineering and coding with Lego robots.
California Avenue Elementary School Science Specialist Rick Wolfsdorf Jr., center, and Uniondale High science teacher Michael Guardino helped students through their two attempts to build a boat that sped toward a finish line, propelled by a blow dryer.
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Medical students take nutrition lessons into a hospital kitchen By ANGELINA ZINGARIELLO azingariello@liherald.com
A group of fourth-year medical students from the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell took part in the Culinary Medicine elective that integrates nutrition education with hands-on experience in a hospital kitchen. The program is designed to help future physicians better understand how food and dietary choices intersect with patient care. On Jan. 15, the students commuted to Long Island Jewish Valley Stream hospital for a pediatric nutrition session.
They cooked in an back at the time, active hospital and as part of vet kitchen while school, she had a observing how whole semester meals are prepared where she was for patients. learning about the Eva Sheridan, feeding schedule of an assistant profesthe animals,” Shersor in the Departidan recalled, m e n t o f S c i e n c e RuSSELL FIckE speaking at the and Science Educa- Executive chef, start of the protion at the Zucker Long Island Jewish gram. “And I was School, collaborat- Valley Stream kind of thinking, ed with Alice Forhuh, when I went nari, a registered to school, and still, dietician and a professor of there was no learning about science education and family the feeding of human beings, medicine at the school, to cre- and that is essential.” ate the elective in 2020. Sheridan joined the Zucker “My sister is a [veterinari- School faculty in 2018 after an], and she went to vet school w o r k i n g i n p s y c h i a t r y
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research, where she focused on mitigating weight gain often caused by antipsychotic medications. Her current role involves facilitating smallgroup learning throughout the medical school curriculum. The course uses Health Meets Food courseware, which integrates nutrition science, clinical cases and culinary instruction. When the elective
first launched during the coronavirus pandemic, it was conducted remotely, with students taking part in case discussions and viewing live cooking demonstrations on Zoom. Once inperson learning resumed, the program moved into hospital kitchens. It is structured around selected nutrition modules, ContinUEd on pAGE 10