Warde Physics Students Place at Yale

Editor's Note: This announcement was originally published Oct. 17.

Yale hosted the annual Yale Physics Olympics on Oct. 15, a competition between 50 teams offour students in five individual events.

The top three places were recognized and rewarded for eachindividual event, and at the end of the day the overall top three teams were recognized.

A team of four Advanced Placement physics students from Fairfield Warde High School won second overall, just behind a team from Taft School.

Dave Henry, physics teacher at Warde, brought two teams, with each teamfinishing in 1st place in one of the individual events. Oliver Sawin, Kei Nishimura-Gasparian, Neil Gade, and Hyunsoo Kim comprised team “projectile” and beat out all other squads but one, earning silver medals and a second place finish.

The other Warde squad was comprised of Tong Liu, Caleb Bailey, JohnDyer, and Nicole Beinstein. Their team, team “equilibrium,” finished 1st in an individual event in which they had to properly place a glass prism to refract a laser beam to hit a target.