Valencia Science Olympiad earns 6th place and 29 individual medals at regional competition

Valencia High School’s Science Olympiad teams’ competitive season came to a successful close at the Orange County Regional on Saturday, February 15 at the University of California, Irvine. The Tigers earned a sixth place finish out of the 36 teams that competed. The two Tiger teams collected a total of 29 medals in the following events:

Astronomy – Melody Sun, Fernanda Mata, Nigam Vadecha & Donovan Nguyen (second place)
Boomilever – Karissa Pratt & Eric Lee (third place)
Chemistry Lab – Mumtaz Gababa & Karina Patel (second place)
Circuit Lab – Brendan Wong & Rohith Venkatesh (third place)
Codebusters – Cadence Sparks, Mumtaz Gababa & Hunter Cheng (second place) and Kalena Kwan, Joshua Hockman & Audrey Leung
(sixth place)
Designer Genes – Keren Choi & Machaela Ouyang (third place) and Jiwon Jeong & Himanshu Kaushik (fourth place)
Detector Building – Hunter Cheng & Brendan Wong (third place) and Donovan Nguyen & Ziye Tang (sixth place)
Oceanography – Tricia Tran & Cadence Sparks (second place)
Experimental Design – Keren Choi, Mumtaz Gababa & Hunter Cheng (second place)
Fossils – Kamron Popal, Audrey Leung, Eric Lee and Karissa Pratt (second place)
Geologic Mapping – Karissa Pratt & Eric Lee (second place)
Ornithology – Kaitlin Kim & Adila Ahmed (second place)
Protein Modeling – Jiwon Jeong, Kalena Kwan, Joshua Song, Melody Sun, Mumtaz Gababa & Karina Patel (third place)
Sounds of Music – Alan Luong & Joshua Song (first place)
Water Quality – Tricia Tran & Cadence Sparks (second place)
Write It, Do It – Adila Ahmed & Kaitlin Kim (first place)
Wright Stuff – Adila Ahmed & Kaitlin Kim (first place)

Way to go Tigers!

Science Olympiad is a scholastic competition where students compete in 23 events pertaining to various scientific disciplines including social science, earth and space science, physical science and chemistry, technology and engineering, and more. Each year, over 7,500 middle and high school teams from around the country compete in multiple levels of competition including regionals, states, and then nationals.