Blair Magnet News: Summer 2019

Math Olympiad: Daniel Zhu earned a perfect score and won a gold medal as part of first place Team USA at the 2019 International Mathematical Olympiad in England!

Quiz Bowl:

• • The It's Academic Team (Ian Rackow, Anson Berns, and Sophia Weng) won the 2019 It's Academic Super Bowl, Blair's third straight championship!The Quiz Bowl team finished in 4th place at the 2019 PACE National Scholastic Championship (@BlairQuizBowl)

  • Sophia Weng competed on Teen Jeopardy! in June (Silver Chips) (Bethesda Magazine)

Senior Research:

• • Naveen Durvasula won 3rd place for his poster at the 2019 National Junior Science and Humanities Symposium.

  • Kevin Qian won a Second Award of $1,500 for his physics project at the 2019 International Science and Engineering Fair.

  • Blair's three Science Talent Search finalists were interviewed for Silver Chips: Not Your Average Competition

National Merit Scholarships:

• • Jonathan Berkowitz, Patrick Kim, Shwetha Kunnam, Jenny Mei, Alice Turnham, and Megan Xiao won $2,500 National Merit Scholarships. (MCPS)

  • Allison Rose Borton, Soumith Gadila, and Reethi Padmanabhan won corporate-sponsored National Merit Scholarships. (MCPS)

  • Elena Elman won a National Merit Scholarship from the University of Rochester; Lily Kirsch won a scholarship from Grinnell College; and Cindy Liu, Kristi Ng, Catherine Rodriguez, and Sally Zhao won scholarships from the University of Maryland. (MCPS)

More Awards and Accomplishments:

• • Blair's freshman team won 3rd place at the 2019 ACSL All-Star Contest. (@theliasgonzalez)

  • The Montgomery County ARML team won 8th place overall at the 2019 American Regions Math League.

  • The Cybersecurity Team won Radford University's RUSecure CTF Competition in April. (Roanoke Times)

  • The Envirothon Team won 2nd place at the 2019 Maryland Envirothon. (@MrPham_at_MBHS)

  • Senior Nobline Yoo was a national winner for the 2019 NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing.(@blairprincipal)

  • Freshman Dhruv Pai was named Montgomery County's Youth Volunteer of the Year. (@mcpsvolunteers)

  • Several Magnet students were involved in organizing the InteGIRLS math competition for middle school and high school girls. (WTOP)

Senior Research: Ms. Bosse is visiting seniors at their labs this summer, and sharing photos on Twitter.

Flickr: There are new photos of FIST, Wallops Island, Lake Needwood, Entomology, and PuzzlePalooza on the Magnet Flickr account.