Hopkins team wins 1st place at the CT Science Olympiad

Hopkins is proud to have a large number of talented students enthusiastic about science participate in the Science Olympiad every year. This year 30 students took part in the CT Division C Science Olympiad on April 2 at the University of Connecticut. Hopkins' Team A won first place in the state, and Team B won 4th place. Science Olympiad initially involves about 2 million students annually in grades K-12, with 6,000 teams in grades six through 12 actively competing in regional, state and the national tournament. The mission of the program is to enhance the quality of science education, to create a passion for science among young people and to reward both students and teachers for academic achievement.

Team A plus some alternates will travel to the 27th annual Science Olympiad National Tournament taking place May 20–21, 2011 at the University of Wisconsin. Our Hopkins team will compete in more than two dozen events against 119 other teams of champions from across the country. Events will include the topics of astronomy, tower building, chemistry, computing and ecology.

At assembly on Monday, April 4th the two teams announced their accomplishments at assembly, bringing with them two battle bots used in the weekends competition. Alex Siegenfeld dedicated Team A's first place trophy to their Faculty advisors, Jen Stauffer and Sarah Leite.

Congratulations to both teams and good luck to Team A in Wisconsin next week!

Team A - 1st Place
Allison Siegenfeld
Michael Ying
Matt Hodel
Alex Siegenfeld
Elizabeth Peters
Rahul Dhodapkar
Sophia Chua-Rubenfeld
Laura Srivichitranond
Sophia Szymkowiak
Sam Rosen
Alex Leffell
Ariel Rock
Veena Krish
Sara Arthurs
Roger Lo

Team B - 4th Place
Taylor Waanders
Shreyas Ramani
Neal BasuMullick
Emma Gleeman
Lauryn Isford
Greg Schaefer
Jay Sullivan
Erik Jorgensen
David Beam
Lloyd Chen
Emilia Hernandez
Max Ying
Kingston Pung
Steven Bell
Charlie Proctor