State Runner-up and Onward to Nationals!

On Saturday March 31st we competed in the Georgia Science Olympiad State Tournament held at Emory University. We finished in second place overall for the fourth year in a row, earning us the right to compete at the National Tournament on May 18th-19th at Colorado State University. In the 34-year history of Science Olympiad, we remain the only Fulton County high school ever to qualify for Nationals.

Our team recorded a score of 113 points, finishing top ten in 21  of 23 events - more than in any previous year!

​We medaled in the following events:

1st place
Dynamic Planet - Brian Amaro, Seohyun Park
Mousetrap Vehicle - Alex Yu, Joanna Zheng
Remote Sensing - Araneesh Pratap, Raj Srivastava

2nd place
Astronomy - Araneesh Pratap, Brian Amaro
Experimental Design - Akshay Patwardhan, Ojas Nadkarni, Raj Srivastava
Towers - Alex Yu, Joanna Zheng

3rd place
Fermi Questions - Araneesh Pratap, Ojas Nadkarni
Herpetology -  Araneesh Pratap, Seohyun Park
Mission Possible - Madhav Ghatpande, Ojas Nadkarni

4th place
Forensics - Ellie Kim, Emily Guo
Hovercraft - Alex Yu, Madhav Ghatpande
Materials Science - Brian Amaro, Emily Guo
Rocks and Minerals - Emily Wang, Marylyn Chen​

5th place
Ecology - Ellie Kim, Marylyn Chen
Helicopters - Alex Yu, Joanna Zheng

6th place
Chemistry Lab - Erin Chang, Madhav Ghatpande
Disease Detectives - Eric Amaro, Erin Chang
Optics - Ojas Nadkarni, Raj Srivastava

7th place
Microbe Mission - Eric Amaro, Emily Guo

8th place
Thermodynamics - Ellie Kim, Madhav Ghatpande

10th place
Anatomy and Physiology - Akshay Patwardhan, Araneesh Pratap

13th+ place
Game On - Joanna Zheng, Marylyn Chen
Write It Do It - Emily Guo, Marylyn Chen

Full Results