High School South students placed first in the 2007 State Science Olympiad Tournament and are now headed to Wichita, Kansas for the National Competition. ##M:[more]##
First place awards went to Sumona Bhattacharya and Sofia Izmailov for chem lab; Daphne Ezer and Ying-Ying Tran for designer genes; Daphne Ezer and Sofia Izmailov for disease detectives; Ying-Ying Tran and Lily Yu for entomology; Bohua Zhan and Ying-Ying Tran for Fermi questions; Neeli Mishra and Lily Yu for remote sensing; Manu Venkateswaran and Tiffany Huang for rocks and minerals.
Second place awards were received by David Ku and Bohua Zhan, astronomy; Manu Venkateswaran and Ronak Gandhi, boomilever; Tiffany Huang and Bohua Zhan, five star science; Sumona Bhattacharya and Tiffany Huang, food science; Daphne Ezer and Lily Yu, health science; Warren Cai and David Ku, physics lab; and David Ku and Warren Cai, scrambler.
Third place went to Neeli Mishra, Ying-Ying Tran, and Daphne Ezer for experimental design; and Lily Yu and Sofia Izmialov for forensics. Fourth place awards were received by Bohua Zahn and Warren Cai for circuit lab; and Ronak Gandhi and Piyush Poddar for Wright stuff. Piyush Poddar and Nikhil Jha received the fifth place award for oceanography. Piyush Poddar and Sumona Bhattacharya took sixth place for ecology.
The team advisors are Meenakshi Bhattacharya, Brendan Field, and Sunila Sharmon, teachers at High School South.
