Association for Psychological Science
The APS Convention brings together psychologists from subdisciplines spanning the full spectrum of the field to learn about cutting-edge research from world-renowned researchers, to improve their skills, to deepen their knowledge, and to forge life-long collaborations with colleagues.
Check out Currents News' story about the 2019 APS participants: https://www.
Faculty Moderator: Dr. Stephen J. Sullivan
Canstruction
Canstruction LI, part of the national food drive/engineering Canstruction competition, is open to students in grades 9-12. Students design and build a structure out of cans that they have collected as donations. There are usually 4-6 scholastic teams participating and 15-20 professional and college engineering teams.
SHA students have won numerous awards, including: "Most Cantastic," "Best Cantender," "People's Choice (student designs)," "Best Meal," and "Best Cancept."
Faculty Moderator: Dr. Stephen J. Sullivan
The Journal of Secondary Psychological Studies
The Journal provides a forum for high school students to publish their empirical research on psychological topics. As part of the publication process, JSPS hopes to give students feedback that will help them improve upon both existing and future work. The editors also plan to focus on research that can be conducted in a high school environment without access to expensive equipment and to make the articles readily and quickly available online where they can help other students by modeling what teenagers working "in-house" can accomplish.
Faculty Moderator: Dr. Stephen J. Sullivan
Junior Science & Humanities Symposium
Sponsored nationally by the United States Department of Defense and run regionally (NYC | LI) by the City University of New York, students in grades 9-12 present research projects of all levels.
Medical Marvels
Presented by Northwell Health, students in grades 9-10 may participate in Medical Marvels. Student teams are presented with a real-life issue in public health (mental health, providing care to low-income neighborhoods, water contamination, student vaping) and must design a public health campaign in order to create solutions to address these problems.
SHA earned second place at this competition in 2014.
SHA earned "Best Presentation" at this competition in 2019 (A Multi-faceted school-based approach to curb student vaping).
Faculty Moderator: Dr. Stephen J. Sullivan
Molloy College Science Fair
Sponsored by the Molloy College Biology, Chemistry and Environmental Studies Department, students in grades 9-10 present research projects, usually conducted in the school lab.
Faculty Moderator: Dr. Stephen J. Sullivan
Nassau Community College Science and Arts Fair
Students in grades 9-12 may compete in this science fair presented by the Nassau Community College Honors Program. Each year the fair has a theme, such as "What Matters?" or "Identity." Students present scientific research projects that fit with the theme of the fair.
Faculty Moderator: Dr. Stephen J. Sullivan
Regeneron Science Talent Search
The Regeneron STS is the oldest and most prestigious student science competition in the nation - and the world. Finalists are often referred to as "Junior Nobel Laureates." Students in grade 12 submit original research papers in critically important scientific fields. Most research is conducted over the summer/during the school year at outside university or medical labs. Three hundred "Scholars" are selected based on their exceptional research skills, commitment to academics, innovative thinking, and promise as scientists. Scholars and their respective schools receive $2,000 each. From that select pool, 40 "Finalists" are then invited to Washington, D.C. in March to undergo final judging, display their work to the public, meet with notable scientists, and compete for $1.8 million in awards.
Faculty Moderator: Dr. Stephen J. Sullivan
Science Olympiad
Open to students in grades 9-12, the Science Olympiad features a regional (Nassau West) and national competition. Students compete in pairs against teams from other schools in events that test their knowledge and design skills in science, technology, engineering and math.
Sacred Heart Academy students excelled at the 2017 competitions, placing sixth in Robot Arm, eighth in Anatomy and Physiology and Helicopters, and ninth in Hydrogeology and Herpetology.
In 2019, SHA scored at least one team in the top ten in Anatomy & Physiology, Chemistry Lab, Disease Detectives, & Write It / Do it.
Faculty Moderators: Ms. Nicole DeVito
SPARK! Challenge
SPARK! Challenge, sponsored by Northwell Health, is open to students in grades 11-12. Students shadow medical professionals for one day (Oct - Dec), then choose a career, create a poster advertisement and give a two-minute presentation on their chosen career at the Spark! Challenge Mock Career Fair in April.
Faculty Moderator: Dr. Stephen J. Sullivan
Whitman Journal of Psychology
Faculty Moderator: Dr. Stephen J. Sullivan