Deer Park High School juniors Kayla Cruz and Ava Sacarin were named first place winners in the Medicine/Health category at the American Chemical Society’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Chemagination Competition, held on May 31 at Seton Hall University in New Jersey.

Chemagination challenges high school students to imagine that they are living 25 years in the future and have been invited to write an article describing a breakthrough or innovation in chemistry that has improved the quality of people's lives from 2025 to the year 2050. Cruz and Sacarin had previously won the local Chemagination contest on March 7 at St. John’s University in Queens. Their project focused on contact lenses designed to detect glucose levels in tears and monitor the health of the wearers.

Date Added: 6/18/2025