Los Alamos High School Science Bowl A team members, from left, Anna Simakov, Jack Harris, Linnhtet Htoon, Minhtet Htoon and Drew Bacrania took first place in the New Mexico Regional Science Bowl and are advancing to the National Finals. Courtesy/LAPS
Members of the Los Alamos High School Science Bowl teams pose with their first place trophy last weekend after the A team won the Regional Science Bowl competition. Courtesy/LAPS
LAPS News:
The Los Alamos High School Science Bowl team of Drew Bacrania, Jack Harris, Linnhtet Htoon, Minhtet Htoon and Anna Simakov are the 2024 Regional Champions after making “an exciting comeback” at the competition held at Albuquerque Academy over the weekend.
Minhtet is a senior, Linnhtet is a junior and Drew, Jack and Anna are freshmen. They will travel to Washington, D.C. in April for the national competition https://science.osti.gov/wdts/nsb.
The LAHS two other teams fought some hard competitors and made Los Alamos proud! Team members include seniors Kepler Smith and Jason Zhao, sophomore Jasper Carpenter, and freshmen Noah Bane, Gavin Bent, Thomas Daligault, Lydia Davis, Julie Fadner and Suchir Jha.
The teams are coached by LAHS Physics teacher Ali Renner.
“This was an amazingly enthusiastic, positive group and I am looking forward to many more great years of Science Bowling to come,” she said. “They showed off incredible knowledge and even better sportsmanship on Saturday.”
The National Science Bowl brings together thousands of middle and high school students from across the country to compete in a fast-paced question-and-answer format where they solve technical problems and answer questions on a range of science disciplines including biology, chemistry, Earth and space sciences, physics, and math.
The top two middle and high school teams will win $5,000 for their schools’ math and science departments. Other schools placing in the top 16 in the National Finals will win $1,000 for their schools’ science departments.
Today, the NSB annually draws more than 10,000 middle and high school competitors. Since the first competition in 1991, approximately 344,000 students have faced off in the National Science Bowl® Finals. The knowledge that former competitors have acquired and, more importantly, the collaborative skills and study habits that they learned along the way have led them to successes in a variety of fields. Many have become researchers; others are science and math professors.
The 2024 competitors will follow in the footsteps of previous National Science Bowl® contestants and will blaze a trail for students in science, math and engineering.
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