Meet the Interviewers
Pioneers in Science leverages an unusual pairing: world-renowned scientists and high school students. In this event, six New York City high school students will take to the stage to interview Nobel Laureate in Physics Leon Lederman and MIT’s groundbreaking robot designer Cynthia Breazeal. Brief biographies for Lederman and Breazeal can be found on the World Science Festival website. Here we introduce our student
interviewers.
Interviewing Leon Lederman will be:
Michael Kaplan (11th grade, Bronx HS of Science)
A physics lover with a knack for making complicated ideas understandable and exciting, Michael is currently doing an independent research project on biomolecular simulation with a professor at CUNY. When he’s not delving into computational physics, he’s playing his guitar or shooting hoops.
Rachel “Roxy” Lachhman (12th grade, Brooklyn Tech)
An aspiring aerospace engineer, Roxy finds science in everything she encounters, and is always hungry for discoveries that await around the next corner. She participates in practically every science fair and competition she comes across, and has still found time to get a black belt.read more
