Science Olympiad Team

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.

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Science Olympiad News

Science Olympiad State

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

PacMan- 4^th 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