Community Middle School’s Science Olympiad Team won the New Jersey State Championship. The CMS Team is coached by Kevin Mackenzie and Lisa Sacca, with assistance from Nicole Bolognini, Genevieve Wickizer, and Arthur Downs. Individual medal winners include:
Devanei Solai & Shivani Prusty: first, Air Trajectory; Shivani Prusty and Matthew Hong: fourth, Bottle Rocket; Arsh Rupani and Akila Saravanan: first, Bridge Building; Matthew Hong and Arsh Rupani: first, Elastic Launch Glider; Arsh Rupani and Akila Saravanan: first, Robo-Cross; Devanei Solai and Shivani Prusty: first, Wheeled Vehicle; Vainavi Mukkamala and Tim Tu: third, Anatomy and Physiology; Jonathan Wang and Rudra Venkatakrishnan: second, Crave the Wave; Ranjan Mahanth and George Zhou: fifth, Crime Busters.
George Zhou and Vainavi Mukkamala: fourth, Disease Detectives; Sophia Wang and Vijay Josephs: second, Dynamic Planet; Katherine Zhang and Yash Gupta: first, Entomology; Tim Tu, Katherine Zhang, and Sophia Wang: fourth, Experimental Design; Sophia Wang and Akila Saravanan: first, Fossils; Jonathan Wang and Tim Dai: fifth, Green Generation; Arnav Rastogi and Vijay Josephs: fifth, Meteorology; Ranjan Mahanth and Tim Dai: second, Picture This; Jessica Xu and Rudra Venkatakrishnan: first, Road Scholar; and Tim Dai and Arnav Rastogi: second, Solar System.
Grover Middle School’s Science Olympiad Team placed sixth. GMS coaches are Tara Hipple and Chris Castner. Individual medal winners include:
Joey Hsia and Vishal Raman: second, Bottle Rockets; Aditya Rao and Emily Huang: second, Entomology; Kevin Ji and Ronak Ramachandran: second, Green Generation; Jacob Park and Om Deshmukh: third, Bridge Building; Sai Vendidandi and David Lang: fourth, Crave the Wave; Patrick Zhang and Fayiz Faruk: fourth, Dynamic Planet; Dristhi Devnani and Emily Huang: fourth, Road Scholar; and Ronak Ramachandran and Kevin Ji: fourth, Write It/Do It.
High School North’s Science Olympiad Team took first place. Jim Looney is the High School North coach, with assistance from Regina Celin, Holly Crochetiere, and Kerry Pross. Individual medal winners include:
Jeremy Zhang and Chris Shao: third, Air Trajectory; Jason Yang and Ronald Wang: first, Anatomy and Physiology; Raymond Zhang and Jason Yang: first, Astronomy; Anoop Patel and Louis Wang: second, Bridge Building; Varun Subbiah and Jeremy Zhang: second, Compound Machines; Anna Hsu and Charles Dai: fourth, Disease Detective; Anna Hsu and Edison Lee: first, Dynamic Planet; Jason Yang and Ronald Wang: first, Entomology; Roger Jin, Alina Thokkadam, and Sundar Solai: fifth, Experimental Design; Chris Shao and Raymond Zhang: Sixth, Forensics; Varun Subbiah and Revanth Gumpu: first, Fossils; Varun Subbiah and Revanth Gumpu: second, Geologic Mapping; Edison Lee and Jeremy Zhang: third, It’s About Time; Andrew Hong and Matthew Pan: third, Mission Possible; Jason Zhang, Roger Jin, and Edison Lee: first, Protein Modeling; Christopher Xue and Alexander Xue: third, We’ve Got Your Number; Andrew Hong and Matthew Pan: first, Wright Stuff; and Sundar Solai and Chris Shao: third, Write It-Do It.
High School South received second place in the State Science Olympiad competition. Sunila Sharma is the High School South coach. Individual medal winners include:
Kevin Li and Jason Shi, first, Compound Madness; Bharath Jaladi and Aditya Iyer: first, Scrambler; Angela you and Eric Mischell: first, Green Generation; Kevin Li and Abraham Park: first, Chemistry Lab; Kevin Li and Jason Shi: first, Technical Problem Solving; Bharath Jaladi and Tanishqu Aggarwal: first, Mission Possible; Bill Yan Huang and Dhruva Byrapatna: first, Geologic Mapping; Bill Yan Huang and Dhruva Byrapatna: second, Dynamic Planet; Kevin Li and Kai Zheng: second, We’ve Got Your Number.
Bill Yan Huamg and Dhruva Byrapatna: third, Astronomy; Souabh Chakraborty and William Jhiao: third, Disease Detective; Michael Mu and Jason Shi: third: Entomology; Aditya Iyer and Bharath Jaladi: fourth, Air Trajectory; Kai Zheng and Lewis Wang: fourth, Fossils; Tanishq Aggarwal and William Jhaio: fourth, It’s About Time; Angela Mao, Kathleen Chai and Abraham Park: fourth, Protein Modeling; Abraham Park and Isaac Park: fifth, Bridge Building; Kathleen Chai and Tanishq Aggarwal: fifth, Cell Biology; and Angela You and Eric Mischell: Sixth, Anatomy and Physiology.