Best and brightest compete in the Academic
Olympics
Sea students earn top honors
as 13 Island high schools vie in CSI event
Staten Island Advance - Monday, April 17, 2006
A team of students from St. Joseph by-the-Sea High
School, Huguenot, captured top place in Staten Island's 19th annual
Academic Olympics competition.
The day-long event at the College of Staten Island, hosted by CSI's
Discovery Institute, drew more than 200 of the borough's best and
brightest students from 13 public, private and parochial high
schools to the Willowbrook campus earlier this month where they vied
to answer correctly questions and problems posed in math, science,
English and social studies.
 Sea
took home the championship and trophy, having scored the highest
total number of points overall, followed by Monsignor Farrell High
School, Oakwood, in second place, and Tottenville High School in
third.
Dr. James Sanders, director of the Discovery Institute, and Dr.
Irina Lyblinskaya, associate director, welcomed students and their
teachers and praised their hard work.
The Discovery Institute is in awe, Sanders said, that more than 200
talented students dedicated a beautiful spring Saturday to compete
in our annual Academic Olympics.
While in the past, students competed in the various subjects on
different days, this year competitions in all the major subject
areas, English, social studies, math and science, occurred
simultaneously on one day.
First, second, and third place distinctions were awarded to
individual students at each level in each discipline. In addition,
the scores from each school were totaled. Overall school first
prizes were awarded within each discipline, and overall first,
second and third championship prizes were awarded for the entire
competition.
In addition to Sea, Farrell and Tottenville, participating schools
included Curtis High School; New Dorp High School; Notre Dame
Academy, Grymes Hill; Petrides High School, Sunnyside; Port Richmond
High School; St. John Villa Academy and St. Joseph Hill Academy,
both Arrochar; Staten Island Academy, Dongan Hills; Staten Island
Technical High School, New Dorp, and Susan Wagner High School.
Each high school sent a team of up to 16 students to compete in four
levels of competition in each discipline. Students were chosen for
levels corresponding to or above the course in which they are
currently enrolled. The categories included 9th and 10th Year
English; 11th and 12th Year English; English Literature; Advance
Placement English; First Year Global Studies; Second Year American
Studies; Advance Placement American Studies; Math A; Math B;
Pre-Calculus; Calculus; Physics; Chemistry; Biology, and Advance
Placement Biology.
The winners in each category were:
9th and 10th Year English: Regina DeSantis, Notre Dame Academy,
first place; Charles Biada, Curtis High School, second place;
Alexander Luisi, Monsignor Farrell, third place.
11th and 12th Year English: Ashley Gainsa, Petrides High School,
first place; Marilyn Stasinopoulos, Staten Island Tech, second
place; Brittany Becker, St. Joseph Sea, third place.
English Literature: Kaitlin Hady, St. Joseph Hill, first place; Lisa
Ratanaprasatporn, Tottenville, second place; Alex Kornfeld, Curtis,
third place.
Advance Placement English: Jessica Nicholson, St. Joseph Sea, first
place; Mary Attardo, Staten Island Tech, second place; Erin Semler,
St. Joseph Hill, third place.
St. Joseph Hill had the highest team score in English.
First Year Global Studies: Anthony Galli, St. Joseph Sea, first
place; Skerdi Brahimaj, Curtis, second place; Christina Mitropoulos,
St. Joseph Hill, third.
Second Year Global Studies: Pauline Murphy, St. Joseph Sea, first
place; Nicholas Iacono, Farrell, second place; Vidal Mendiola, New
Dorp High School, third place.
American Studies: Charin Winker, Tottenville, first place; Rachel
Sainte, Curtis, second place; Adrienne Vischio, Staten Island
Academy, third place.
Advance Placement American Studies: Lindsey Greenfield, Staten
Island Academy, first place; Sal Linea, Susan Wagner High School;
Joseph Vignone, Farrell, third place.
St. Joseph by-the-Sea had the highest team score in social studies.
Math A: Michelle Faughnan, Tottenville, first place; Rosemarie
Gigante, Notre Dame Academy, second place; Dennis O' Mara, St.
Joseph Sea, third place
Math B: Justin Kuo, Tottenville, second place; Hee Chan Kim, Susan
Wagner High School, second place; Maxwell David, Staten Island
Academy, third place.
Pre-Calculus: Nicholas Voutsinas, Staten Island Academy, first
place; Margarita Levin, Staten Island Tech, second place; Felipe
Wang, Farrell, third place.
Calculus: Ilya Shnaydman, Staten Island Tech, first place; Steven
Yi, Tottenville High, second place; Chris Catella, New Dorp High,
third place.
Tottenville High School had the highest team score in mathematics.
Physics: Daniel McDonald, St. Joseph Sea, first place; Lorianne
Fitzsimmons, Notre Dame Academy, second place; John Koullias, Staten
Island Tech, third place.
Chemistry: Iris Russo, St. Joseph Sea, first place; Michael
Gottlieb, Farrell, second place; Christina Bianca, St. Joseph Hill,
third place.
Biology: James Quadrino, Farrell, first place; Andrew Soliman, St.
Joseph Sea, second place; Jasmine Ahuja, Notre Dame Academy, third
place.
Advance Placement Biology: Winston Ma, Staten Island Tech, first
place; Kenneth Lui, New Dorp High, second place; Laura Neese, St.
John Villa Academy, third place.
St. Joseph by the Sea earned the highest team score in science.
Advance features writer Diane Lore writes about schools and
education. Contact her at lore@siadvance.com.
By DIANE C. LORE
Reprinted here with permission
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