Milken Students Take Space Science Honors
For their research into global climate changes caused by human activities, three teams of eighth-graders from Milken Community High School swept the top California honors in this year’s nationwide Space Science Student Involvement Program.
This marks the second year in a row that students from the school affiliated with the Stephen Wise Temple in Sepulveda Pass have topped the California entrants.
The seven students from Milken--five of them Valley residents--were the only winners among 246 California entries in the 16-year-old competition conducted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Science Teachers Assn.
To participate in the competition, the Milken students analyzed satellite data on global climate and wrote essays.
Milken Headmaster Bruce Powell credited the students’ success to “a phenomenal science program” at the school. “The kids are encouraged to do independent research. . . . The teaching staff is enthusiastic and focused on science excellence and we have a very hands-on program.”
Members of the first-place team were Brian Rosenblatt and Belle Woskow, both of Encino. Placing second were Aaron Roseman of Tarzana and Talia Scharlim of Encino. Third-place winners were Deborah Levine of Encino, Emily Klein of Bel-Air and Joshua Fard of Brentwood.
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