Biography
Assalam Alykom,
My name is Lana Zalt and I am currently a dual enrolling senior at MIA. I was born in the heart of New York as my parents decided to get their first glimpse of America in the big busy city. They decided to stay there until I reached the age of 3, at that point my dad having gotten a position at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, MI and we moved to the motor city for 2 years. My academic success started at the young age of 6 as I entered kindergarten and continued on to first grade at Vowels Elementary. My dad having found a better position, my parents decided to move to the small city of Mt. Pleasant. I attended 2nd through 6th grade at Renaissance Academy and although I made many close friends, we had to move for a third time because my dad, finding a great program at Emory University's School of Medicine, decided to move to Georgia for a year. After finishing the 7th grade at an Islamic School in the heart of Atlanta, we decided to come back to the area we loved most; metro Detroit.
We found a beautiful house in West Bloomfield, and I finished my 8th grade year in Huda School. From 9th to the middle of 11th grade I attended the number one high school in Michigan, and 7th in the country, International Academy in Bloomfield Hills. During my two and half year stay, I was active in many clubs, especially the Muslim Student Association (MSA). I attended many of the events they participated in including Muslim Interscholastic Student Tournament ( MIST) where I won 3rd place in the Quran competition in both 9th and 11th grades, and also won 3rd for the improv event. I also helped out with many of the school wide events MSA hosted. I then switched gears into MIA and started my first day on Feb.3, 2016. MIA's community was very welcoming and I felt right at home. During my junior year, I competed in the county-wide science fair and won 4th place overall and 1st in the category of physics and engineering. I also won the Naval Science Award (with a prize of $275) and was invited to the state wide science fair! I have worked with University of Michigan's School of Kinesiology to host a research study which looked at students' knowledge about nutrition before and after seminars were given by the university.
Now during my senior year, I am doing research about ground level ozone and will be educating the youth about ground level ozone, its harmful effects, and how to limit the amount of ozone production so they can be more proactive about this serious issue. Ground level ozone is a colorless and highly irritating gas that forms just above the earth's surface when two primary pollutants (nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds) react in sunlight and stagnant air. The government has established a system for measuring ground level ozone, but they only cover certain areas in America, so not everyone can benefit from it. Also the areas where the ozone is measured is different than other areas (even those within close proximity), because many factors can affect it; therefore different areas (even if they are within minutes of each other) can have different levels of ground level ozone. I am really into science, and inshallah plan on heading into the science field for my future studies, so I hope this project can not only help me prepare for my future aspirations but also benefit many people.
My name is Lana Zalt and I am currently a dual enrolling senior at MIA. I was born in the heart of New York as my parents decided to get their first glimpse of America in the big busy city. They decided to stay there until I reached the age of 3, at that point my dad having gotten a position at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, MI and we moved to the motor city for 2 years. My academic success started at the young age of 6 as I entered kindergarten and continued on to first grade at Vowels Elementary. My dad having found a better position, my parents decided to move to the small city of Mt. Pleasant. I attended 2nd through 6th grade at Renaissance Academy and although I made many close friends, we had to move for a third time because my dad, finding a great program at Emory University's School of Medicine, decided to move to Georgia for a year. After finishing the 7th grade at an Islamic School in the heart of Atlanta, we decided to come back to the area we loved most; metro Detroit.
We found a beautiful house in West Bloomfield, and I finished my 8th grade year in Huda School. From 9th to the middle of 11th grade I attended the number one high school in Michigan, and 7th in the country, International Academy in Bloomfield Hills. During my two and half year stay, I was active in many clubs, especially the Muslim Student Association (MSA). I attended many of the events they participated in including Muslim Interscholastic Student Tournament ( MIST) where I won 3rd place in the Quran competition in both 9th and 11th grades, and also won 3rd for the improv event. I also helped out with many of the school wide events MSA hosted. I then switched gears into MIA and started my first day on Feb.3, 2016. MIA's community was very welcoming and I felt right at home. During my junior year, I competed in the county-wide science fair and won 4th place overall and 1st in the category of physics and engineering. I also won the Naval Science Award (with a prize of $275) and was invited to the state wide science fair! I have worked with University of Michigan's School of Kinesiology to host a research study which looked at students' knowledge about nutrition before and after seminars were given by the university.
Now during my senior year, I am doing research about ground level ozone and will be educating the youth about ground level ozone, its harmful effects, and how to limit the amount of ozone production so they can be more proactive about this serious issue. Ground level ozone is a colorless and highly irritating gas that forms just above the earth's surface when two primary pollutants (nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds) react in sunlight and stagnant air. The government has established a system for measuring ground level ozone, but they only cover certain areas in America, so not everyone can benefit from it. Also the areas where the ozone is measured is different than other areas (even those within close proximity), because many factors can affect it; therefore different areas (even if they are within minutes of each other) can have different levels of ground level ozone. I am really into science, and inshallah plan on heading into the science field for my future studies, so I hope this project can not only help me prepare for my future aspirations but also benefit many people.
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