On May 20th, we competed at the 2017 National Tournament, held this year at Wright State University. Chattahoochee qualified for the tournament after finishing second at the Georgia state tournament in March, just 7 points behind perennial state champion Brookwood High School.
Competing as one of the top 60 teams in the nation, we finished in 22nd place overall, close behind Brookwood's school-record 19th place finish, and won the prestigious Lockheed Martin Spirit Award. Selected by the event supervisors and recognizing exemplary sportsmanship, teamwork, and spirit, the award includes $2,000 for the Science Olympiad team. We won medals in 4 of the 23 events (more than any other Georgia high school has won in a single year since 2005):
2nd place
Hovercraft - Kalen Patton, Madhav Ghatpande 3rd place Dynamic Planet - Araneesh Pratap, Arvind Ramaswami 5th place Robot Arm - Kalen Patton. Madhav Ghatpande 6th place Astronomy - Araneesh Pratap, Arvind Ramaswami
9th place:
Wind Power - Ashwin Ramaswami, Kalen Patton 11th place: Game On - Ashwin Ramaswami, Joanna Zheng Invasive Species - Avinash Pratap, Udisha Bhattacharyya 12th place: Helicopters - Alex Yu, Joanna Zheng Hydrogeology - Alex Yu, Sarah Chen 18th place: Chemistry Lab - Kalen Patton, Ashwin Ramaswami Remote Sensing - Araneesh Pratap, Raj Srivastava 19th place: Towers - Alex Yu, Joanna Zheng 26th place: Microbe Mission - Akash Mandavilli, Araneesh Pratap 31st place: Materials Science - Ashwin Ramaswami, Hasan Unal Rocks and Minerals - Arvind Ramaswami, Udisha Bhattacharyya 32nd place: Disease Detectives - Araneesh Pratap, Erin Chang Write It Do It - Araneesh Pratap, Avinash Pratap 34th place: Ecology - Raj Srivastava, Sarah Chen 42nd place: Optics - Ashwin Ramaswami, Kalen Patton 49th place: Experimental Design - Akash Mandavilli, Hasan Unal, Raj Srivastava 50th place: Electric Vehicle - Kalen Patton, Madhav Ghatpande 52nd place: Anatomy and Physiology - Akash Mandavilli, Hasan Unal 56th place: Forensics - Hasan Unal, Theo Elvebak
Medal winner photos for the four events in which we medaled:
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