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Kennedy students ‘Dream Green’ for contest

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On their own, four Kennedy High School students recently entered Rocket21’s Dream Green competition, in which they were challenged to devise campaigns to spread environmental awareness or develop blueprints to reduce humans’ impact on the world.

All four came up big in the national competition. Kennedy takes in students from south Bellmore and south Merrick.

Sophomores Arin Forstadt, Julia Abrams, Hannah Choset and Claire Kelly, all members of Kennedy’s Authentic Science Research Program, received Honorable Mention accolades in the contest, according to their research advisers, Barbi Frank and Barbara Franklin.

For the contest, the students had to write 250-word essays detailing their ideas.

According to its website, Rocket21 is a social-networking platform that partners with companies, organizations, educators and experts to develop competitions, challenges, projects and experiences “that foster big thinking and encourage youth to dream, create and innovate as they explore paths to make their mark on the world.”

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