Harriton Science Olympiad Team Wins State Championship
Advance to National Championship in Colorado
Pennsylvania Science Olympiad State Champions!
This past weekend the Harriton Science Olympiad team competed in the Pennsylvania Science Olympiad team and was crowned PA state champions earning them a bid to the National Science Olympiad at Colorado State University May 18-19.
Coach Brian Gauvin explained that Pennsylvania sends two schools to the national tournament and that Lower Merion High School, which came in 2nd place, will also be heading to Colorado for the national championship. This unique situation has happened once before in 2003.
Harriton has earned its 4th consecutive state championship, and the students involved with the team are as talented and dedicated as any team of the past.
“They are truly the product of an outstanding educational environment in Lower Merion,” Coach Gauvin added.
Although only some of the students on the state championship team get to compete at a national tournament, this success is the combined effort of everyone that makes Harriton such a formidable opponent.
A team list of the individual event medalists is below.
Coaches: Mr. Gauvin; Ms. Lesch; Mr. Powers; Mr. MacNichol
| Gold Medals | ||||
| Astronomy | Tom McKenzie-Smith | Ashwini Shende | ||
| Chemistry lab | Avery Parr | Hannah Klatte | ||
| Ecology | Rob Chen | Pat McCann | ||
| Fermi Questions | Tom McKenzie-Smith | James Powell | ||
| Forensics | Anthony Zhu | Monali Zhao | ||
| Helicopters | Liam Rodgers | John Neary | Allison Zhang | |
| Herpetology | Ashwini Shende | Richard Haslam | ||
| Hovercraft | Tom Devlin | Alex Alber | Shangen Lu | |
| Material Science | Tom McKenzie-Smith | Avery Parr | ||
| Microbe Mission | Rob Chen | Sam Weissman | ||
| Optics | Tom McKenzie-Smith | Avery Parr | ||
| Write It Do It | Shangen Lu | James Powell | ||
| Tower Building | Hannah Klatte | Alex Ahn |
| Silver Medals | ||||
| Anatomy & Physiology | Avery Parr | Sam Weissman | ||
| Game On | Tom Devlin | James Powell | ||
| Mission Possible | Tom Devlin | Steve Ross | Matt Pearl | Ezra Frank |
| Mousetrap Vehicle | Tom Devlin | Ben Wolfe | Shangen Lu | |
| Rocks & Minerals | Richard Haslam | Sunme Zhao | ||
| Bronze Medals | ||||
| Experimental Design | Rob Chen | Richard Haslam | Pat McCann | |
| Thermodynamics | Anthony Zhu | Sam Weissman | ||
| 4th Place Medals | ||||
| Dynamic Planet | Rob Chen | Pat McCann | ||
| 5th Place Medals | ||||
| Disease Detectives | Ashwini Shende | Sam Weissman |