Building STEM interest in NYC Public High School Students

In collaboration with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) each year,  elected high school juniors from NYC public High Schools compete in a STEM-inspired community outreach program:  Radiology: Giving Back to New York City. 

With plans underway for the 2016 program, we'd like to highlight the great success of the 2015  program.  
Azreen Hasan, a student from the High School for Health Professions and Human Services in New York City was the winner of the 2015 competition Radiology: Giving Back to NYC; the program was initiated by Hedvig Hricak, MD, PhD, Chair of the Department of Radiology at MSK. In late August Azreen completed her summer internship in engineering at MSK working with her mentor Govindarajan Srimathveeravalli, PhD, Assistant Attending Engineer in the Department of Radiology at MSK.  Her project Measurement of Electrical Resistance with Paper Based Circuits for the Diagnosis of Urinary Infection was designed to meet a demand for inexpensive diagnostic tests that can rapidly determine whether a patient has a urinary tract infection – using a paper based circuit system.  The project could have a positive effect on global healthcare and Dr. Srimathveeravalli is particularly interested in implementing this in India, the country where he was born.