Irvington HS Students Earn Medals At Science Olympiad

Twenty-one members of the Irvington High School Science Olympiad Club competed at the annual Lower Hudson Valley Regional Science Olympiad, held at Byram Hills High School Feb. 1. Teacher Amy Ma said she was very proud of the team.

“It is truly refreshing to see their love of science in action," she said.

The Science Olympiad Club provides an opportunity for students to challenge themselves in a variety of science disciplines and compete against other schools in both hands-on challenges and written tests, according to a spokeswoman. One of the tests challenged the students to design, construct and test free-flight, rubber-powered monoplanes or biplanes to achieve maximum time aloft, while another tasked students with cryptanalyzing and decoding encrypted messages using cryptanalysis techniques for historical and modern advanced ciphers.

Congratulations to the following students who earned medals at the Science Olympiad:

• Lila Juenger and Joanna Paul: third place in the Solar Power category.
• Eadin Block and Becca Strauss: fifth place in the Write It/Do It category.
• Henry Demarest and Esha Shenoy: seventh place in the Chemistry Lab category.
• Aeka Tomita and Reinesse Wong: seventh place in the Green Generation category.
• Henry Demarest, Emelyn Juenger and Esha Shenoy: eighth place in the Quiz Bowl category.

Members of the Science Olympiad Club include Isabella Berger, Eadin Block, Killian Daly, Anshuman Das, Henry Demarest, Chinmay Joshi, Emelyn Juenger, Lila Juenger, Audrey Kundu, Allison Lyubomoirskaya, Isabella Macchia, Katharine McLaughlin, Joanna Paul, Esha Shenoy, Kaitlyn Sollecito, Becca Strauss, Eesha Thaker, Aeka Tomita, Reinesse Wong, Olivia Yin and Robert Yun.

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