11th place overall at the MIT Invitational!

This past weekend we sent two teams to compete at the 4th annual MIT Invitational - the largest and most competitive invitational in the nation, with 70 teams from 19 different states - including five of the top ten teams in the nation from last year, and a dozen reigning state champions. We finished in 11th place overall, a few points behind Acton-Boxborough High School from Massachusetts (who finished 13th in the nation last year).

Our team medaled in the following events:

3rd place:
Hovercraft - Alex Yu, Madhav Ghatpande

4th place:
Remote Sensing - Araneesh Pratap, Raj Srivastava

6th place:
Write It Do It - Anna Chung, Emilie Lin

7th place:
Chemistry Clue (trial) - Jaehun Seo, Theo Elvebak
Herpetology - Araneesh Pratap, Seohyun Park
Mousetrap Vehicle - Alex Yu, Joanna Zheng

8th place:
Astronomy - Araneesh Pratap, Roy Kim

10th place:
Helicopters - Alex Yu, Joanna Zheng
Picture This (trial) - Emily Guo, Emily Wang, Ridhi Choragudi

11th place:
Chemistry Clue (trial) - Ellie Kim, Erin Chang
Fermi Questions - Araneesh Pratap, Ojas Nadkarni

13th place:
Disease Detectives - Erin Chang, Ridhi Choragudi
Optics - Ojas Nadkarni, Raj Srivastava
Rocks and Minerals - Emily Wang, Raj Srivastava

16th place:
Game On - Joanna Zheng, Marylyn Chen

17th place:
Code Busters (trial) - Alex Yu, Joanna Zheng, Ojas Nadkarni

19th place:
Anatomy and Physiology - Araneesh Pratap, Roy Kim
Optics - Hasan Unal, Theo Elvebak

20th place:
Chemistry Lab - Erin Chang, Madhav Ghatpande
Ecology - Ellie Kim, Marylyn Chen

21st place:
Materials Science - Araneesh Pratap, Roy Kim
Towers - Alex Yu, Joanna Zheng

22nd place:
Dynamic Planet - Brian Amaro, Seohyun Park
Thermodynamics - Ellie Kim, Madhav Ghatpande

23rd place:
Experimental Design - Emily Guo, Ojas Nadkarni, Raj Srivastava
Mission Possible - Alex Yu, Madhav Ghatpande

25th place:
Dynamic Planet - Emilie Lin, Eric Amaro

26th place:
Picture This (trial) - Avinash Pratap, Emily Zhang, Udisha Bhattacharyya

27th place:
Mission Possible - Daniel Perez, Sahil Sudhir

28th place:
Microbe Mission - Emily Zhang, Eric Amaro
Thermodynamics - Daniel Perez, Ellie Wong

31st place:
Astronomy - Sahil Sudhir, Theo Elvebak

32nd place:
Code Busters (trial) - Akshay Patwardhan, Hasan Unal, Sahil Sudhir
Microbe Mission - Brian Amaro, Ridhi Choragudi

33rd place:
Experimental Design - Akshay Patwardhan, Hasan Unal, Jaehun Seo

34th place:
Rocks and Minerals - Anna Chung, Udisha Bhattacharyya

35th place:
Chemistry Lab - Ellie Wong, Theo Elvebak
Forensics - Ellie Kim, Emily Guo

37th place:
Ecology - Eric Amaro, Sakshi Kakkad

41st place:
Disease Detectives - Akshay Patwardhan, Eric Amaro
Herpetology - Avinash Pratap, Sakshi Kakkad

42nd place:
Remote Sensing - Emilie Lin, Jaehun Seo

43rd place:
Forensics - Hasan Unal, Sakshi Kakkad

44th place:
Materials Science - Eric Amaro, Theo Elvebak

45th place:
Hovercraft - Daniel Perez, Ellie Wong

48th place:
Anatomy and Physiology - Akshay Patwardhan, Hasan Unal

49th place:
Towers - Daniel Perez

50th place:
Write It Do It - Emily Guo, Marylyn Chen

52nd place:
Fermi Questions - Sahil Sudhir, Udisha Bhattacharyya

53rd place:
Game On - Avinash Pratap, Sakshi Kakkad

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Full Results
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Next weekend, January 27th, is our 5th annual middle school invitational tournament, with 40 teams from across the southeast attending. Three weeks after that is our regional tournament at Middle Georgia State University, where we'll again be facing off against Brookwood.