Congratulations to the Earl L. Vandermeulen High School Science Olympiad A team for making it to states!
Teams across the region competed in the Eastern Long Island Regional Competition on Jan. 27 at Hauppauge High School. Port Jefferson’s A team placed third out of 60 teams. Port Jefferson also had a B and C team compete. There were 22 STEM events and the top 10 teams in each event earned a medal.
Congratulations to our medal winners (listed in event order):
Anatomy: 9th (A) Gavin Onghai and Michelle Wu
Astronomy: 4th (A) Nicholas Smirnov and Emily Snyder
Chemistry Lab: 4th (A) Devon Welsch and Eric Chen
Codebusters: 10th (A) Max Joyner, Max Paulus and Emily Snyder
Disease Detectives: 2nd (A) Eric Chen and Michelle Wu, 10th (B) Narin Karakurum and Chris Nam
Ecology: 3rd (A) Nicholas Smirnov and Alice Snyder, 6th (B) Colin Veit and Liam Thomsen
Experimental Design: 8th (A) Kieran Casey, Kevin Hong and Yosef Mimarbasi
Fermi: 9th (B) Liam Thomsen and Thales Cheng
Flight: 9th (A) Kieran Casey and Kevin Hong
Forensics: 10th (B) Marlo Pepe and Jax Moore
Forestry: 6th (A) Tucker Stanton and Alice Snyder
Fossils: 9th (C) Molly Becherer and Iris He
Geo Mapping: 2nd (A) Ryan Gameng and Nicholas Smirnov
Microbe Mission: 1st (A) Michelle Wu and Alice Snyder
Optics: 3rd (A) Devon Welsch and Emily Snyder, 6th (B) Kristina Shterengas and Thales Cheng
Robot: 4th (A) Kieran Casey and Carman Stanton, 5th (B) Talin Bajaj and Rowan Casey
Scrambler: 2nd (A) Kieran Casey and Kevin Hong
Tower: 3rd (A) Max Joyner and Tucker Stanton, 5th (B) Mari Fukuto and Andrew Schretzmayer
Wind Power: 7th (A) Carman Stanton and Gavin Onghai
Write It, Do It: 6th (C) Alexa Wonderland and Cessarina Buehler
The States Competition will be held from March 15-17 at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York. Eight teams will represent Eastern Long Island at the state competition. Besides Port Jefferson, the other high school teams are Bayport-Bluepoint, Half Hollow Hills East, Hauppauge, Smithtown East, The Stony Brook School, Ward Melville and West Babylon.
Coaches were High School science teachers Amanda Perovich and Melissa Garcia.
“I am utterly impressed with all three of the teams this year!” Coach Perovich said.
“All the teams were almost in the top half of the region and that says a lot about this group of students.”
“This group of students has worked so hard all year preparing for this competition, and we are so proud of their success,” Coach Garcia added. “We can’t wait to see what the future holds for this team.”
Science teachers Mr. Bouchard, Mr. Gorniok, Mr. Maletta, Ms. Sklar and Ms. Weaver accompanied the group along with teaching assistant Mr. Holland. Additional participants were Paige Braile, Sara Freitas, Aoife Hogan, Andi Kelly, Rumaan Khan, Petra Kundic, Evan Monaghan, Ronan Moore, Julia Perrotta, Marco Puopolo and Samantha Reichers.
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Date Added: 1/29/2024