Science Team Members Excel at State Olympiad

Roslyn High School's Science Olympiad Team excelled at the New York State Science Olympiad Competition. By placing sixth at the Western Long Island Regional Competition, Roslyn High School's Science Olympiad Team qualified as one of seven teams from the region to attend the New York State Science Olympiad Competition. The competition, held March 18-19 at the United States Military Academy at West Point, hosted the state's 54 best teams, who represented the highest scoring of over 300 teams around New York State. Roslyn took 29th place at the competition, thus clinching a highly sought after spot within the top 10% of the leading schools in science in all of New York State.

Mr. Marvin and Ms. Tsarevsky with proud members of the Science Olympiad Team.

The team had great success at the two-day competition, placing in the top 10 in one event and claiming six top 20 finishes. Congratulations to Scott Gladstone and Brent Weissman for placing 8th in the Magnetic Levitation event; Tim Silber and Ethan Levy for placing 14th in Disease Detectives; Danny Pollack and Caleb Balbera for placing 14th in Chemistry Lab, 16th in Remote Sensing, and 17th in Dynamic Planet; and Scott Gladstone and Alex Wu for placing 19th in Forensics.

Faculty Advisors Irena Tsarevsky, Vincent Kreyling and William Marvin were extremely proud of the team's amazing results, as were Team Captains Scott Gladstone, Danny Pollack, Michael Lustrin, Nikhil Mehandru, Brian Chen and Michael Cervia. Faculty Member Mary Cronin and other competing team members, including Shane Ackerman, Caleb Balbera, Michelle Jung, Anvit Kalra-Lall, Ethan Levy, Arjun Kumar, Evan Schneider, Tim Silber, Brent Weissman, Alex Wu, Margaret Wu, Victor Wu and Bobby Yeturu, also showed their immense excitement at the team's success.

This is Roslyn's first return to the State Competition since a 35th place finish in 2004, and the team plans to keep up their enthusiasm, energy, and love of science in order to strive for competitive excellence next year and thereafter.

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Roslyn High School Science Olympiad Team Wins Big at Regional Competition

Sixty-seven teams filed into the auditorium of Kellenberg Memorial High School on Saturday, February 5th, at the Western Long Island Science Olympiad Regional Competition. Roslyn students had spent the day braving the anxiety of taking a 150-question Anatomy and Physiology exam, attempting to reconstruct impossibly intricate Write It/Do It structures, and battling someone else's small robot in Sumobots, among a variety of other events.

The team placed sixth of the sixty-seven teams at the competition, making Roslyn one of the seven schools to qualify to attend the New York State Competition in West Point on March 18-19. It was one of Roslyn's best performances in years. The team received seventeen medals in eight different events.

(standing) Mr. Vincent Kreyling, Michael Cervia, Brian Chen, Michael Lustrin, Ms. Irena Tsarevsky and Mr. William Marvin. (kneeling) Nikhil Mehandru, Scott Gladstone, and Danny Pollack.

Congratulations to Scott Gladstone, Brian Chen, and Arjun Kumar for winning first place in Experimental Design; Danny Pollack and Caleb Balbera for second in Chemistry Lab; Michael Lustrin and Caleb Balbera for second in Write it Do it; Danny Pollack and Caleb Balbera for third in Ecology; Nikhil Mehandru and Michael Lustrin for fifth in Anatomy & Physiology; Danny Pollack and Alex Wu for fifth in Dynamic Planet; Brian Chen and Alex Wu for sixth in Astronomy; and Shane Ackerman, Anvit Kalra-Lall, and Arjun Kumar for sixth in Mission Possible.

Faculty Advisors Irena Tsarevsky, Vincent Kreyling, and William Marvin, along with Team Captains Scott Gladstone, Danny Pollack, Michael Lustrin, Brian Chen, and Nikhil Mehandru, and Executive Consultant Michael Cervia, led the states-bound team to victory. Faculty member Mary Cronin also helped the Roslyn Science Olympiad team achieve its tremendous success. Other competing team members included Shane Ackerman, Caleb Balbera, Michelle Jung, Anvit Kalra-Lall, Arjun Kumar, Evan Schneider, Tim Silber, Brent Weissman, Alex Wu and Bobby Yeturu.