Science Olympiad Team

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    Science Olympiad is one of the premier academic clubs at James S. Rickards High School. Our Science Olympiad team is one of the top teams in the state of Florida.  We are currently the State Runner Up (2021-2022) and were State Champions in 2020-2021, National Champions in Gravity Vehicle (2020-2021), along with being Regional champions for the past four years (2019-2022).   We have been invited to compete in the National Tournament for the past two years, along with several highly competitive invitational tournaments.  In 2021, two of our ninth-grade students earned scholarship money for college when they won Gravity Vehicle at the National Tournament. 

    We have designed our organization to be student driven, which not only fosters teamwork and leadership skills, it also provides students with opportunities to train and compete in various science events, including study, building, inquiry, and lab events. Students also organize and run our virtual Invitational tournament each year.

    Website: https://sites.google.com/view/rhsso/home?authuser=0 

Science Olympiad News

  • Science Olympiad State

    Please congratulate the following individuals- our first team- PacMan finished 4th overall.

     

    PacMan- 4th place

    Adi Chauhan

    Angela Liang

    Danny Alex

    Eric Zeng

    Karina Thiyagarajan

    Karl Akuoko

    Laxmi McGuire

    Meghna Mullangi

    Nitish Nandineni

    Tanmay Natani

    Terry Lin

    Vaneesha Sinha

    Velan Thanasekar

    Vibav Tammisetti

    Viswa Janapati

     

    Donkey Kong

    Abhinav Balaji

    Anish Saha

    Arnav Bhagwandin

    Asmitha Etukala

    Bhavagna Punyala

    Donald English

    Haasini Yelugoti

    Himank Chhaya

    Jonathan George

    Nitya Konidala

    Olivia Zeng

    Rayan Bahmani

    Rishi Aka

    Suhas Gaddam

    Xavier Hillman

     

     

    Please congratulate the following individuals for medaling at the State Science Olympiad Competition this weekend:

     

    Event

    Place

    Students

    Team

    Astronomy

    1st Place

    Eric Zeng

    Laxmi McGuire

     

    PacMan

    Cell Biology

    4th Place

    Terry Lin

    Viswa Janapati

     

    PacMan

    Chemistry Lab

    2nd place

    Eric Zeng

    Terry Lin

     

    PacMan

    Codebusters

    1st Place

    Vaneesha Sinha

    Terry Lin

    Viswa Janapati

    PacMan

    Detector Building

    6th Place

    Vaneesha Sinha

    Vibav Tammisetti

     

    PacMan

    Disease Detectives

    2nd place

    Velan Thanasekar

    Vibav Tammisetti

     

    PacMan

    Dynamic Planet

    4th Place

    Adi Chauhan

    Nitish Nandineni

     

    PacMan

    Dynamic Planet

    5th Place

    Haasini Yelugoti

    Anish Saha

     

    Donkey Kong

    Environmental Chemistry

    2nd Place

    Danny Alex

    Nitish Nandineni

     

    PacMan

    Fermi Questions

    5th Place

    Jonathon George

    Abhinav Balaji

     

    Donkey Kong

    Forensics

    2nd place

    Terry Lin

    Viswa Janapati

     

    PacMan

    Forestry

    2nd place

    Karl Akuoko

    Meghna Mullangi

     

    PacMan

    Rocks and Minerals

    3rd Place

    Tanmay Natani

    Meghna Mullangi

     

    PacMan

    Rocks and Minerals

    6th Place

    Donald English

    Nitya Konidala

     

    Donkey Kong

    Scrambler

    2nd Place

    Suhas Gaddam

    Himank Chhaya

     

    Donkey Kong

    Scrambler

    3rd Place

    Karl Akuoko

    Velan Thansekar

     

    PacMan

     

     


    Science Olympiad Regionals

    Our Science Olympiad teams competed in the Regional Competition at Buchholtz High School this past weekend. We definitely qualified two teams for States in March and potentially a third team but are waiting to see. Please congratulate the following students:

     

    2nd Place Overall- PacMan

    Adi Chauhan

    Danny Alex

    Eric Zeng

    Karina Thiyagarajan

    Karl Akuoko

    Laxmi McGuire

    Meghna Mullangi

    Nitish Nandineni

    Sukeerth Goly

    Tanmay Haldiya

    Terry Lin

    Velan Thanasekar

    Vibav Tammisetti

    Viswa Janapati

     

    3rd Place Overall- Donkey Kong

    Abhinav Balaji

    Angela Liang

    Anish Saha

    Arnav Bhagwandin

    Asmitha Etukala

    Bhavagna Punyala

    Haasini Yelugoti

    Nitya Konidala

    Olivia Zeng

    Rishi Aka

    Saarah Khan

    Shunmuka Valsa

    Tanmay Natani

    Vaneesha Sinha

     

    Event

    Place

    Students

    Team

    Astronomy

    2nd Place

    Eric Zeng

    Laxmi McGuire

     

    PacMan

    Bridges

    1st Place

    Kevin Fei

    Malik Gambles

     

    Mario

    Bridges

    3rd Place

    Karina Thiyagarajan

    Laxmi McGuire

     

    PacMan

    Chemistry Lab

    3rd Place

    Eric Zeng

    Terry Lin

     

    PacMan

    Codebusters

    2nd place

    Vaneesha Sinha

    Abhinav Balaji

    Suhas Gaddam

    Donkey Kong

    Detector Building

    1st Place

    Vaneesha Sinha

    Olivia Zeng

     

    Donkey Kong

    Detector Building

    2nd Place

    Vibav Tammisetti

    Sukeerth Goly

     

    PacMan

    Disease Detectives

    1st Place

    Velan Thanasekar

    Vibav Tammisetti

     

    PacMan

    Disease Detectives

    3rd Place

    Jonathon George

    Donald English

     

    Link

    Dynamic Planet

    1st Place

    Adi Chauhan

    Nitish Nandineni

     

    PacMan

    Dynamic Planet

    2nd Place

    Haasini Yelugoti

    Anish Saha

     

    Donkey Kong

    Environmental Chemistry

    2nd Place

    Danny Alex

    Nitish Nandineni

     

    PacMan

    Environmental Chemistry

    3rd Place

    Arnav Bhagwandin

    Shunmuka Valsa

     

    Donkey Kong

    Experimental Design

    2nd Place

    Vaneesha Sinha

    Arnav Bhagwandin

    Anish Saha

    Donkey Kong

    Experimental Design

    3rd Place

    Eric Zeng

    Nitish Nandineni

    Adi Chauhan

    PacMan

    Fermi Questions

    3rd Place

    Tanmay Natani

    Abhinav Balaji

     

    Donkey Kong

    Flight

    1st Place

    Olivia Zeng

    Nitya Konidala

     

    Donkey Kong

    Flight

    2nd Place

    Karina Thiyagarajan

    Adi Chauhan

     

    PacMan

    Forensics

    1st Place

    Terry Lin

    Viswa Janapati

     

    PacMan

    Forensics

    3rd Place

    Kavya Kadhirvelu

    Abhigna Konanur

     

    Mario

    Forestry

    1st Place

    Velan Thanasekar

    Meghna Mullangi

     

    PacMan

    It's about time Event

    3rd Place

    Karina Thiyagarajan

    Laxmi McGuire

     

    PacMan

    Remote Sensing

    2nd Place

    Nitya Konidala

    Angela Liang

     

    Donkey Kong

    Rocks and Minerals

    2nd Place

    Tanmay Natani

    Nitya Konidala

     

    Donkey Kong

    Rocks and Minerals

    3rd Place

    Eric Zeng

    Meghna Mullangi

     

    PacMan

    Scrambler

    1st Place

    Kevin Fei

    Malik Gambles

     

    Mario

    Scrambler

    2nd Place

    Karl Akuoko

    Velan Thansekar

     

    PacMan

    Write It Do It

    3rd Place

    Donald English

    Xavier Hillman

     

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