Goshen's Science Olympiad season off to a great start

| 20 Dec 2018 | 01:55

Goshen’s Science Olympiad team, front row (from left): Nahal Jangda, Rohan Chhabra, Julisa Posada, Cora Pahucki, Aiden Meyers, John Higgins, Kiran Foster. Second row: Xander Danella, Eesha Ramanathan, Kiara Paulino, Pheonix Graham, Serena Yeddu, Carolos Alicea. Third row: Imaan Beg, Catherine Lieniemann, Jason Barnes, Stephanie Gyrla, Arun Foster, Kapil Foster. Fourth row: AJ Bauer, Melissa Moore, Alex Mistretta. Fifth row: Myra Arif, Julia Gyrla, Eve Doyle, Kaylee Kohn, Jehan Beg, Ekamjot Singh, Brandon Pendrod. Last row: Andrew Hablow, Donovan Teeple, Spencer Doyle, Cameron Teeple, Ryan Mistretta, Ben Pahucki. (Photo provided)

Rohan Chhabra and Jason Barnes won first place in the Battery Buggy event (Photo provided)

GOSHEN — The Goshen Science Olympiad teams participated in the first competition of the season, and emerged as the seventh-place school overall.
On Dec. 8, the Junior and Senior Science Olympiad teams from Goshen traveled to Long Island to compete in the Long Island Science Olympiad Invitational.
The Junior team placed ninth in a pool of 33 highly competitive teams from New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania. The students competed in pairs with the top six teams in each event receiving medals.
Many of the students won medals in their events, including:
First-place medal for Rohan Chhabra and Jason Barnes in the Battery Buggy event
Third-place medals for Arun Foster and Kiran Foster in Boomliever and Catherine Lienemann and Cora Pahucki in Herpetology
Fifth-place medals for Arun Foster, Alex Mistretta and Kiara Paulino in Experimental Design and Carlos Alicea and Alex Mistretta in Thermodynamics
Sixth-place medal for Catherine Lienemann and Cora Pahucki in Fossils
The Senior team placed 39th out of 53 teams.
Among the top 25Several students placed among the top 25 in their events, including:
Ninth place for Andrew Hablow and Ben Pahucki in the Geologic Mapping event
Sixteenth place for Jehan Beg, Kaylee Kohn and Donovan Teeple in Experimental Design
Seventeenth place for Ryan Mistretta and Ben Pahucki in Dynamic Planet
Eighteenth place for Myra Arif and Julia Gyrla in Wright Stuff
Twenty-third place for Camron Teeple and Donovan Teeple in Sounds of Music
Grueling preparationScience Olympiad is dedicated to improving the interest and quality of science education. To prepare, the team from Goshen dedicates approximately 10 hours a week from October through April competing in several competitions leading up to the New York State Competition. This is in addition to their regular school work, time at home preparing for the competition, and extracurricular activities like sports, music, drama, and National and Junior Honor Society.
The students spend their time exploring topics including biology, chemistry, physics, epidemiology, astronomy, computer science, and engineering in the STEM competition. They gain knowledge beyond curriculum standards and place themselves on the path to success in the fields of technology, engineering, and medicine.
“The coaches are extremely proud of the team’s success so early in the season," said Coach Becky DenDanto. "These students work really hard and devote much of their time to participate in Science Olympiad. Our results are a great sign of the good things to come, and we are all eagerly anticipating our upcoming competitions.”
The teams consist of students from grade 6 through 12. They are lead by DenDanto and assistant coaches Laura Muller, Warren Young, and Christina Pahucki, with generous support from a large group of parent and community volunteers and from local businesses, including Lanc & Tully, Nugent & Haeussler, M&T Bank and Media Vision Advertising.
Find out more about the team, the events in which they participate, and how you can lend your support by visiting goshenscioly.wixsite.com/scioly.

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