The AMC is one of the largest mathematics competitions in the nation, and we spend most of the year in math club preparing for it. If he makes it through training camp, he'll represent the US at the 2022 Virtual IPhO! For information about sports offered and how to register, click on the appropriate link below, based on the attendance boundaries where you live. Harshita Bondhi, Anusha Shvastava and Tristan Stevens received awards for their position papers. The Tesla team won the JV Division by winning the History Bowl titles, and Maxwell also had a victory in the JV History Bee. This years Global Finale judges included: Virgilio Aquino (C07, WG12), investment director at Aberdeen Standard Investments; Linda Cox, a retired business education teacher and former investment professional who previously advised two consecutive winning teams in the competition; Muk Rao (C94, GSE97), senior technologist at Wharton Research Data Services; and Patrick Yung (WG00), senior vice president, corporate development and strategic investments for Independence Blue Cross. This past Saturday 14 students from Tesla STEM competed in the State level competition for National History Day. From Ciaran Danaee, our Biology Club advisor: USABO Semifinal Results are in: Click the link below to see all about the Tesla STEM scholars who trekked to Utah to launch their rocket this summer! The list of their awards follows: I have never seen a group of students work so diligently to polish their presentations and strengthen their team work right up until judging time as this group. The highest honor is Outstanding Delegate, achieved by two STEM Seniors and club officers: Neav Topaz (STEMUN President) and Patrick Mao (STEMUN Technology Officer.) Over two weekends in May, Tesla STEM competed in the National Ocean Sciences Bowl. This is a schoolwide effort--we have support from our admin, our office staff (Ms. O'Brien and Ms. Ferguson), our health staff (Ms. In 2018, Tesla STEM High School students won recognition across multiple competition categories in each of the three challenges: the Itron Food, Energy, and Water Challenge; the Boeing Aerospace and Transportation Challenge; and the McKinstry Built Environment Challenge. Each year, the National History Day sets a theme and students do research on a topic of their choosing related to the theme, then choose one of five methods of presenting their findings. The last stage is the US Physics Team Training camp, where the top-20 scorers on the USAPhO are flown out to the University of Maryland for 10 days of grueling tests, lectures, and labs to determine the final 5. On Saturday April 30, the Washington State National History Day competition washeld at Lake Washington High School with over 500 students in attendance. There are 15 members on each team and we have nearly four full teams. To put it in perspective, the series of examinations started with roughly 160,000 students taking the AMC, then only 6500 students qualified to take the AIME, and now these 3 are in the rare company of only 558 participants invited to take the USAMO. Please join me in congratulating Tesla STEM students for their winning entries in the Holocaust Center for Humanitys Writing, Art and Film Contest! Our students put forth a stellar performance at the HOSA Future Health Professionals State competition this last weekend in Spokane, bringing in 27 awards and representing Tesla STEM with honor and pride. The Tesla team won the JV Division by winning the History Bowl titles, and Maxwell also had a victory in the JV History Bee. We had a record number of FOUR students receive bids to ISEF even in-light of the covid-19 outbreak.