Northshore Science Olympiad Teams Advance to State Competition

Eleven Northshore teams competed in 23 events at the Regional Science Olympiad competition on March 12 and five teams qualified for the state competition April 16 at Clark College in Vancouver, Wash. Two teams from Canyon Park Junior High School and one team each from Bothell High School, Northshore Junior High School and Timbercrest Junior High School advanced.

 Only the top nine junior high teams and the top eight senior high teams from the regional competition move on to the state competition. Northshore rankings are Canyon Park JH, 1st and 4th; Northshore JH, 2nd; Timbercrest JH, 9th; Kenmore JH, 13th; Bothell HS, 1st and 26th; Inglemoor HS, 10th, 13th and 16th; and Woodinville HS, 20th.

“Regionals were a lot of fun,” said Northshore Junior High ninth-grader Kristin Lie. “You find out who you work well with, and when you find someone who clicks with you, then you know that ‘states’ will be good.”

 state qualifiers include: Avery Brock, Jacob DeCook, Mitchell Henderson, Spencer Hirata, Ryley Hunt, Josh Kim, Peter Lemke, Jonathon Mitchell, Teddy Olson, Ryan Peacock, Jimmy Ragan and Larry Taicz.

Canyon Park Junior High state qualifiers include: Kelly Ewing, Srishti Mathur, Alison Guard, Rachel Liu, Andri Kumar, Aria Walls, Kelby Pierce, Kaelyn Crawford, Ali McAllister-Day, Brandi Burnell, Arko Banik, Allison Rowley, Peter Berge, Trevor McAllister-Day, Jacob Straus, Trenton Marquette, Aspen Brooks, Katelyn Guard, Ema Bittle, Robert Ha, Aditya Jain, Hemanth Kalathil, Matthew Lopez, Adharsh Ranganathan, Anand Sekar, Kevin Sim and Ryan Vail.

Northshore Junior High state qualifiers include: Alex Yang, Apurva Raman, Arie Bolotin, Ariel Stiber, Kristin Lie, Maia Stiber, Mary Gwin, Molly Lie, Nikhil Mandalaparthy and Samisha Khangaonkar.

Bothell High School state qualifiers include: David Maggs, Jake Arlan, Isaac Renfrow, Zach Thompson, Emily Anthony, Tammy Tarhini, Katherine Lacy, Amy Patterson, Laura Childs, Charloe Mesecar, Teddy Pierce, Brianna Lacy, Grace Christensen, Alison Coombs, Desiree Andersen and Alexis Thode.

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