April 10. 2013 THE VILLADOM TIMES II • Page 7 Glen Rock Daniel Radin wins top honor at Science Fair by John Koster Daniel Radin, a Glen Rock resident and a senior at Bergen Academy for Medical Science Technology, was recently honored with a top award at the North Jersey Regional Science Fair held at Rutgers University. The Science Fair award included an all-expenses-paid flight to Phoenix, Arizona in May so Radin can present his award-winning project at the 2013 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. “Intel was a very stressful Science Fair,” the 18-yearold senior acknowledged. “It required multiple essays and completing many questionnaires. To be recognized as an Intel semi-finalist was thus all the more rewarding. It was nice to know that a scientist employed by Intel deemed my work worthy of recognition among the top 300 projects. Out of the 230 projects, 15 were picked as semifinalists from North Jersey.” Radin noted that when the semifinalists were listed, the moderator pronounced his name in an unfamiliar way, and it took Radin a few moments to realize his project had made the cut-off for the trip. “Upon realizing this, my heart skipped several beats as I knew I was going to be flown down to Phoenix to present in the international fair,” he said. “I was in shock and was simply overjoyed. It was a phenomenal weekend, one that could not have gotten any better.” Radin’s father, Glen Rock-based accountant Marc Radin, gives the Bergen Academies in Hackensack full credit for the motivation, instruction, and technical facilities that helped make his son’s victory possible. He also remembers a late-night drive from Glen Rock to Hackensack in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy to make sure the project that led to the paper had survived the storm and the subsequent power failure. “It was like a bad re-make of ‘Soylant Green,’” Marc Radin said of the excursion. The project survived. Daniel Radin was also one of 300 semi-finalists nationwide in the 2013 Intel Science Talent Search earlier this year. The project that won him the recognition and the trip to Arizona was named “Lifeguard Inhibition of Fas-Mediated Apotosis as a Mechanism of Chemical Resistance,” which is related to chemotherapy in the healing of certain types of breast cancer. After completing his college education, he hopes to become a pediatric oncologist. “The prevalence of cancer has certainly driven me to dedicate my high school career to researching its mechanisms and my future career to treating patients afflicted with the disease,” he added. Pictured at left: Daniel Radin, a senior at Bergen Academy for Medical Science Technology, who received a top award at the North Jersey Regional Science Fair.