Bettendorf, IA, November 17, 2016 – Rivermont Collegiate is excited to announce that high school senior Emilia Porubcin received the Iowa Women of Innovation award for the Youth Innovation and Leadership category at the Technology Association of Iowa in Des Moines last week. She won a $2,500 scholarship to her selected college.
Posted on the TAI website – “In her junior year, Emilia became one of the school’s first students to double up in the AP Sciences. She taught herself to program fluently in Python, R, and Java, eventually taking AP Computer Science A online to open Rivermont to the breadth of coursework available. At the University of Iowa, she studied Drosophila larval locomotion, developing a new technique to measure movement with motion-tracking software. At the University of Pittsburgh, her strength in R allowed her to complete novel research demonstrating potential for Bayesian network self-recovery, a contribution soon to be published. Her several-year service at a regional community hospital expanded threefold the hospital’s lung cancer screening study. She has spoken about the study at several lung cancer conferences, notably the World Conference on Lung Cancer and the International Symposium on Lung Cancer.” Visit the TAI website for more information at: http://www.technologyiowa.org/
Rivermont Collegiate is the only preschool through 12th grade private college preparatory school in the Quad Cities.
Ranked #1 Private High School in Iowa on Niche's 2017 Best Schools in America.
Visit www.RivermontCollegiate.org or call 563-359-1366 for more information.
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