Science Honor Society Members Share Interests

The members of Huntington High School’s Science Honor Society are multi-faceted. They have many personal, college and career interests. Members of the most recently inducted class briefly shared some of these interests during the fall ceremony in the auditorium.

A sampling of the interests of eight of the new members shows the breadth among the group. Kiley Barch, Julian Canales, Sage Cicciari, Leila O’Toole, Isabella Palacios, Claire Parks, Kai Rotunno and Heileen Torres are all top students and a real credit to Huntington High School.

The students’ interests include:

Kiley Barch: She intends to become a psychiatrist in order to treat individuals struggling with mental illness so they can get the help they need. She enjoys being able to engage in a sense of discovery and exploration when learning about science.

Julian Canales: He is planning on a career as a doctor, possibly going into endocrinology because he’s always been interested in science and wants it to be something he is involved in for the rest of his life. He especially loves how science is able to change based on new discoveries and is mostly subject to laws and rules.

Sage Cicciari: She is interested in a career as a businesswoman. “I love being able to observe and experience scientific phenomenon and concepts.

Leila O’Toole: She is interested in a career as either a lawyer or doctor. She intends to continue working hard and attending a “great college in order to achieve my goals,” she said. What she especially loves about science is that everything makes sense and has a point. “With other subjects it’s either long and drawn out or just not worth my time,” she said. “Science, however, makes sense and has valid reasoning behind the theories and/or facts. It also just clicks with me.” Ms. O’Toole “just feels that it all comes together” and she can truly understand it.

Isabella Palacios: The teenager is keenly interested in a career as an orthopedic surgeon. “I love how STEM helps me understand how the world works and gives me the tools to solve real-world problems creatively,” she said.

Claire Parks: She is considering a career as a quantitative developer. “I want to be able to combine my skills and passions in finance, math and computer software to analyze and predict markets,” she said. The teenager said she loves science “because it makes up everything around us. There is always something new to learn about or a new discovery to be made.”

Kai Rotunno: He plans to study to become an anesthesiologist. He loves that science has real world, everyday applications allowing a person to learn how and why things happen and how they work.

Heileen Torres: She is interested in becoming a biomedical engineer. This career interests her because she likes learning about human anatomy and wants to make a difference in the medical field. What she enjoys most about science is you can learn how anything functions. “For example, we learn how the human body works together,” she said. She finds that “very interesting because we don’t see what our body does internally, but science allows us to have this knowledge.”