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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
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Science Olympiad Regionals.
Our Science Olympiad students won Regionals this weekend for the 4th year in a row and automatically qualified for the state tournament in March. We will have to wait and see if any of our other teams qualify. I am hoping for at least one more even though we usually qualify the max of 3, but we didn't have full teams due to other activities going on and those students only gave us a couple days/hours' notice that they were not competing, leaving many students scrambeling to find partners or to compete in events as individuals.
Please congratulate the following students for their outstanding performance at our Regional Competition this past weekend:
Team 1- Cybermen- 1st Place Overall
- Astronomy- 2nd place- Velan T. & Karl A.
- Bridges- 2nd place- Kevin W. & Karl A.
- Cell Biology- 3rd place- Jeffrey G. & Harshil D.
- Chem Lab- 1st place- Jeffrey G. & Prabhas K.
- Codebusters- 1st place- Dylan E., Farzan S. & Prabhas K.
- Detector Building- 2nd place- Dylan E. & Farzan S.
- Disease Detectives- 2nd place- Velan T. & Karl A.
- Experimental Design- 1st place- Dylan E., Farzan S. & Prabhas K.
- Gravity Vehicle- 1st place- Kevin W. & Karl A.
- Ornithology- 1st place- Pranav K. & Eric Z.
- Remote Sensing- 1st place- Dylan E. & Farzan S.
- Trajectory- 1st place- Kevin W. & Karl A.
- WiFi Lab- 1st place- Dylan E. & Farzan S.
- Wright Stuff- 1st place- Pranav K. & Harshil D.
- Other members of Team 1- Chris S., Vendant P., Adi C. & Aryan T.
Team 2- Daleks
- Codebusters- 2nd place- Ishan V., Shikha P. & Abhinav B.
- Forensics- 2nd place- Danny A. & Abhinav B.
- It's about time- 2nd place- Mihir K. & Nitish N.
- Write it Do it- 2nd place- Anushka H. & Shikha P.
Team 3- Ood
- Bridges- 1st place- Karina T.
Team 4- Silurians
- Astronomy- 1st place- Rayan B. & Laxmi M.
- It's about time- 1st place- Laxmi M.
Team 5- Timelords
- Astronomy- 3rd place- Haasini Y. & Nishii N.
Team 6- Weeping Angels
- Dynamic Planet- 1st place- Terry L. & Tiffany Z.
- Forensics- 1st place- Terry L. & Asmitha E.
- Gravity Vehicle- 3rd place- Ruchir T.
- Green Generation- 3rd place- Terry L. Viswa J.
University of Texas Austin InvitationalsOn Saturday, October 30, 2021, the Rickards Science Olympiad team placed third at the UT Austin Invitational competition! The prestigious competition took place in Austin, Texas and was attended by over 40 of the best Science Olympiad teams from across the nation. Rickards competitors, across 3 different teams, placed in 17 out of the 28 events in the competition, taking 1st place in Bridges, Data Science, Remote Sensing, and Trajectory.
Placements:
Bridges
1st place – Kevin Wang and Alex Arney
Data Science
1st place – Dylan Epstein-Gross and Tanmay Haldiya
Remote Sensing
1st place – Farzan Shiju and Dylan Epstein-Gross
Trajectory
1st place – Kevin Wang and Karl Akuoko
Cell Biology
2nd place – Jeffrey George and Harshil Dalvaigiri
Chemistry Lab
2nd place – Jeffrey George and Christopher Salvador
Experimental Design
2nd place – Farzan Shiju, Dylan Epstein-Gross, and Tanmay Haldiya
Pokemon Trivia
2nd place – Alex Arney
Wi-Fi Lab
2nd place – Farzan Shiju, Ishan Vepa, and Dylan Epstein-Gross
Bridges
4th place – Sofia McClarnon and Bhavagna Punyala
Codebusters
4th place – Farzan Shiju, Dylan Epstein-Gross, and Christopher Salvador
Ping Pong Parachute
4th place – Shreyas Kodela
Science Word
4th place – Viswa Janapati and Terry Lin
Wright Stuff
4th place – Pranav Kondapalli
Anatomy and Physiology
5th place – Vedant Patel and Danny Alex
Botany
5th place – Siddharth Patel and Shikha Patel
Rocks and Minerals
5th place – Tanmay Natani and Sukeerth Goly
Science Word
5th place – Tanmay Haldiya and Eric Zeng
Environmental Chemistry
6th place – Jeffrey George and Christopher Salvador
It’s About Time
6th place – Mihir Konda and Roshan Mettupalli
Ornithology
6th place – Pranav Kondapalli and Eric Zeng
Ping Pong Parachute
6th place – Olivia Zeng and Suhas Gaddam
Rocks and Minerals
6th place – Pranav Kondapalli and Eric Zeng
Team 1 Members – 3rd place:
Farzan Shiju
Jeffrey George
Dylan Epstein-Gross
Harshil Dalvaigiri
Eric Zeng
Pranav Kondapalli
Kevin Wang
Christopher Salvador
Ishan Vepa
Shreyas Kodela
Team 2 Members – 19th Place:
Vedant Patel
Shikha Patel
Ishrit Gupta
Anushka Heda
Roshan Mettupalli
Sofia McClarnon
Mihir Konda
Danny Alex
Hansini Reddy
Bhavagna Punyala
Siddharth Patel
Eshani Banugu
Meghna Mullangi
Justin Xie
Team 3 Members – 18th Place:
Vibav Tammisetti
Nishi Nandineni
Haasini Yelugoti
Ruchir Talasu
Tanmay Natani
Sukeerth Goly
Terry Lin
Viswa Janapati
Olivia Zeng
Samitha Balireddy
Asmitha Etukala
Anish Saha
Vaneesha Sinha
Suhas Gaddam
Alex Arney
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