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Sweating details at Nassau science olympiad

Island Trees High School junior Arielle Herguth and

Photo credit: Newsday/Karen Wiles Stabile | Island Trees High School junior Arielle Herguth and her teammate Zach Ricca, a sophomore, compete in a forensics event at the Western Long Island Regional Science Olympiad. (Feb. 4, 2012)

The teenagers stood in the Kellenberg Memorial High School gym, fiddling with the little blue propeller car they spent months perfecting.

They anxiously checked a stopwatch between adjustments at Saturday's Western Long Island Regional Science Olympiad.

Dan Charytonowicz, 18, and his partner, Ken Peluso, 15, both students at Wantagh High School, had a few minutes until the end of prep...

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