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Cy Falls Science Olympiad team wraps season at nationals
The Kirk Elementary School students who won the Name That Book contest, pictured with Roy Garcia, associate superintendent for curriculum and instruction and school administration, and Kirk librarian Linda Reynolds, are Pooja Agrawal, Timothy Angeles, Tiffany Pham Nguyen, Kevin Sheard, Michelle Truong, Jamie Won and Julianna White. |
May 21, 2009 — The Cypress Falls High School Science Olympiad team completed its competition season at the 2009 National Science Olympiad, held May 15-16 at Augusta State University in Georgia.
Competing against the top programs in the nation, Cypress Falls ranked 39th overall out of 60 in Division C and achieved several personal accomplishments:
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Cathy Phan, Rachel Lewis and Nhan Tran placed 11th in Experimental Design;
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Rohit Kumar and Rohit Raghu placed 13th in Trajectory;
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John Fortner and Norman Ren placed 19th in Herpetology; and
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John Fortner and Norman Ren placed 20th in Fossils.
The Cypress Falls Science Olympiad team also qualified for nationals in 2004, 2005 and 2006.
“I could not be more pleased with the effort my team put in during the last few weeks before nationals,” said Jennifer Wuellner, Cypress Falls Science Olympiad coach. “We had only three weeks to get ready after the state contest. During those three weeks, the TAKS test was administered, we had a flood day, the swine flu scare came and AP tests were administered. Despite all of these challenges, our team somehow managed to find time to put in some additional practice. I’m proud of how far this team has come this year.”
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