Scarsdale Students Excel in Academic Competitions

On Sunday, February 6, the Scarsdale Middle School MATHCOUNTS club attended the Westchester/Putnam chapter competition at Pace University in Pleasantville. Thirteen schools attended and Scarsdale finished in first place and will go on to the states! Additionally, two of Scarsdale’s individual competitors qualified for the States. The six qualifying students were among the top seven students overall.

The ten participating students were Rebecca Agustin, Michael Bogaty, Rahul Gosain, Richard Guo, Connie Lam, Samantha Lin, Koji Shiromoto, Garrett Tanzer, David Wang andTimothy Zhao.

Rebecca, Michael, Samantha, Koji, Garrett and David will represent Scarsdale at the State competition at RPI March 19.

Congratulations to all of the students and good luck at the State competition.

On Sunday, February 6, a number of Scarsdale High School Research Students attended and participated in the 10th annual Westchester-Rockland Junior Science and Humanities Symposium. About 400 students from 22 area schools attended this event. Eight Scarsdale High School students participated in the twelve Speaker Sessions, and four participated in one of the two Competitive Poster Sessions.

In the Speaker Sessions, Radhika Rastogi and Curan Mehra both took fifth place in their respective Behavior categories, Ruth Kagan took 3rd place in her Medicine and Health Category, Jeremy Frank placed second in General Biology, Andrew Huang placed 2nd in Math and Computer science, and Julia Deutsch placed first in the remaining Behavioral section. All 6 will move on to the upstate competition in Albany, with Julia and Andrew doing speaker sessions, and the rest doing competitive poster with other students from all over New York State.

In addition, Jason Samwick took 3rd place in math and Sahil Lalwani took first place in Biology in the Competitive Poster Sessions. Lastly, Alyson Favilla won an award for the most promising display poster.  Congratulations to all of the students for participating in this very exciting day.

Photo Credit: Lewis Bogaty