ETHS Academic Challenge team wins regional competition
Feb 14, 2020 10:26am CT
The ETHS Academic Challenge team won their regional competition on February 7. ETHS will advance to one of the toughest sectional competitions in the state in March.
The Academic Challenge is a state-wide competition run by Eastern Illinois University. Teams of 14 students compete in biology, chemistry, computer science, English, mathematics, and physics. Each student takes challenging exams in two of the subjects. The top two individual scores in a subject area are used to compute the team score.
ETHS students taking individual honors by subject area include:
Computer Science
Ezra Steinberg, 3rd place
English
Ally Hurd and Saige Severin, tied for 2nd place
Mathematics
Ezra Steinberg and Ronan Soni, tied for 2nd place
Physics
Jonah Doppelt, 3rd place
Brendan Long, 2nd place
Ronan Soni, 1st place
The ETHS team also included the following students: Joshua Ahn, Gillian Brown, Ana Glassman, Liz Krema, Oliver Leopold, Jacob Platnick, Ananya Visweswaran, and Alan Wang.