First Place (5)

Electric Vehicle (A): Oren Weiss and Alex Koban

Environmental Chemistry (A): Brian Gifford and Justin LaToracca

Physics Lab (A): Michael Schwartz and Sujoy Khasnavis

Technical Problem Solving (A): Michael Schwartz and Corey Poggioli

Fossils (B): Robbie Pruitt and Hanna Rosner-Katz

 

Second Place (4)

Cell Biology (A): Brian Gifford and Corey Poggioli

Junkyard Challenge (A): Ian Bird and Scott McSweeney

Sumo Bot (A): Ian Bird and Oren Weiss

Herpetology (B): Hanna Rosner-Katz and Yumna Piracha

 

 

Third Place (4)

Elevated Bridge (A): Emily George and Peter Segall

Trajectory (A): Ian Bird and Michael Schwartz

Sumo Bot (B): Keith Hebenstreit and Matt Macalintal

Technical Problem Solving (C): Matt Neer and Ian Lipman

 

Fourth (4)

Physics Lab (B): Keith Hebenstreit and Andy Liu

It's About Time (B): Jonathan Jove and Keith Hebenstreit

 

Fifth (3)

Chem Lab (A): Alex Koban and Brian Gifford

Disease Detective (A): Alex Koban and Oren Weiss

Health Science (A): Oren Weiss and Sujoy Khasnavis

 

 

Individual Summary (somewhat misleading due to division of labor):

Team A

Brian Gifford: 1st, 2nd and 5th

Corey Poggioli: 1st and 2nd

Alex Koban: 1st, 5th and 5th

Oren Weiss: 1st, 2nd, 5th and 5th

Mike Schwartz: 1st, 1st and 3rd

Justin LaToracca: 1st

Emily George: 3rd

Sujoy Khasnavis: 1st and 5th

Scott McSweeney: 2nd

Ian Bird: 2nd, 2nd, 3rd and 3rd

Peter Segall: 3rd

 

Team B

Robbie Pruitt: 1st

Hanna Rosner-Katz: 1st and 2nd

Yumna Piracha: 2nd

Keith Hebenstreit: 3rd, 4th and 4th

Matt Macalintal: 3rd

Andy Liu: 4th

Jonathan Jove: 4th

 

Team C

Ian Lipman: 3rd and 4th

Matt Neer: 3rd and 4th

Miriam Gilwit: 4th

Shuqing Hu: 4th

 

The New Rochelle Science Olympiad team just completed one of its most successful seasons ever.  The team made history in the Lower Hudson Valley Region by being the first school to enter three teams of students (31 in total) in the regional tournament held on February 14 at Byram Hills High School.  The New Rochelle A team finished first out of 30 teams in the region.  New Rochelle has now won the regional tournament in 2 out of the last 3 years.  New Rochelle students took home 40 medals in the regional tournament in events covering all of the science disciplines.  

 

As a result of its first place finish, New Rochelle advanced to the state championship tournament held at West Point on March 20 and 21.  At West Point, the top 50 teams in the state (out of a total of 339) competed.  New Rochelle ended up in the top 6% of all teams in the state by finishing 22nd at the state tournament.  At the state championship, Brian Gifford and Peter Segall took home 4th place medals in the Ecology event, while Brian Gifford and Corey Poggioli took home 6th place medals in Cell Biology.