On January 13th, the Clark Science Olympiad team competed at the Grand Oaks High School Invitational Tournament in Temecula, California. Led by Mr. Viggato and Mrs. Ward, Clark’s C and D teams spent three days in Cali before competing on Saturday. Though 28 out of the 30 students were freshmen, the C and D teams made Clark proud with the following medals:

Anatomy and Physiology: 1st Place (Jaiden Reddy and Isha Shah), 6th Place (Austin Park and Marissa Teng)

Disease Detectives: 3rd Place (Lily Yan and Shelly Xu), 6th (Austin Park and Rishi Saran)

Dynamic Planet: 5th Place (Katelyn Phan and Felix Zhan)

Ecology: 1st Place (Lily Yan and Shelly Xu), 6th Place (Chloe Kim and Madeline Young)

Experimental Design: 2nd Place (Kara Orevillo, Jaiden Reddy, and Isha Shah)

Forensics: 4th Place (Althea Santos and Katelyn Phan)

Helicopters: 1st Place (Althea Santos and Alex Kwok)

Materials Science: 3rd Place (Sahithi Chundu and Shadman Kabir), 4th Place (Dan Lui and Shelly Xu)

Microbe Mission: 2nd Place (Lily Yan and Jaiden Reddy), 3rd Place (Chloe Kim and Saanvi Desai)

Mission Possible: 5th Place (Nicholas Ho and Saanvi Desai)

Mousetrap Vehicle: 1st Place (Althea Santos and Katelyn Phan)

Optics: 2nd Place (Sahithi Chundu and Austin Park)

Rocks and Minerals: 1st Place (Kara Orevillo and Felix Zhan)

Write it Do it: 4th Place (Alex Kwok and James Kwok)

“This was the first Science Olympiad competition for many of our team members, and they did extremely well,” says club co-President Shan Reddy. “With such strong performances from our underclassmen on the C and D teams, I’m very hopeful for the future of our club after the upperclassmen of our A and B teams graduate.”

Congratulations to all of Clark’s competitors, and best of luck at the MIT and Golden Gate invitationals!