Hop Teams Get Top Honors at CT Science Olympiad

The competition consists of 23 different events and, each year, a portion of the events are rotated to reflect the ever-changing nature of genetics, earth science, chemistry, anatomy, physics, geology, mechanical engineering and technology. By combining events from all disciplines, Science Olympiad encourages a wide cross-section of students to get involved. Emphasis is placed on active, hands-on group participation. 

Hopkins sent two teams to the competition, earning 1st and 6th place honors. The competition was fierce as the A Team beat out South Windsor and Staples for the top spot. Overall, Hopkins earned 13 medals. Medals were awarded to the top three competitors (pair from each team) in each event. Medal winners are listed below. A team of fifteen students and three alternates will be heading to Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado to compete in the Science Olympiad National Tournament next week. We wish them luck!

Hopkins A	Hopkins B
Ryan Viores	Sanjna Bandaru
Nick Schoelkopf	Alexandra Blitzer
Josh Ip	Luke El-Fishawy
Alex Kane	Deepak Gupta
Adwith Mukherjee	Rachel Hagani
Morgan Noonan	Madison Howard
Ajay Mitra	Phil Schmitt
Ben Washburne	Alex Hughes
Parker Connelly	JR Stauff
AJ Marks	Theo Tellides
Burton Lyng-Olsen	Alex Zhang
Helena Lyng-Olsen	Veronica Yarovinsky
Mark Xu	Nathan Ahn
Ethan Silver	Arushi Srivastava
Ben Goldstein	Nic Burtson
Hopkins A - overall 1st place	Hopkins B - overall 6th place