Penn ASB Science Team wins state championship

Posted on May 18, 2017

Penn High School’s Academic Super Bowl Science Team, coached by Breanna Berkheiser, earned a state championship on May 6 in competition at Purdue University. The Penn Math team and the Penn Interdisciplinary team each placed second in the state.

 

At the state level, Baker Nasser, Matthew Shan, and Muqsit Buchh represented Penn in the science round of the competition.  Other students that were in attendance at the state competition were Haasan Kazi, Alvin Wang, Amy Bernard, Ali Sualeh, Seunghooon Sun, Corey Wang, Riya Patel, Emily Duchine, Tingyi Lu, and Chelsea Chen. 

 

Students that are involved with the team but not in attendance at the state competition are Sanjana Kulkarni, Annaliza Canda, Drason Chow, Fezaan Kazi, Daniel Kline, Komal Kumar, Michelle Kwok, Ahsan Siddiqui, Zainab Nasser, and Nikita Patel.

​"I am very pleased that the students' hard work paid off with their ultimate goal of winning a state championship,” Berkheiser said. “Competing for Science ASB is not just about the one year of work that gets put into learning and studying the content (although that is a very large part of it).  It is also a result of the students' own motivation to learn while previously taking a variety of rigorous science courses offered to them at Penn that have built up a solid foundation of scientific understanding. 

 

“This championship is also a result of many roles on our team working together,” Berkheiser continued.  “Although the "face" of the team in a competition can only be a few students, there are many important roles on the team that really worked together to result in taking the state title."
 

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