It has been another stellar year for the local Science Olympiad teams.

The Barrington High School team won the state Science Olympiad Tournament in late March, while the Barrington Middle School team finished second at states.

The BHS team scored 54 points (fewer is better) at states, and won easily. The second place Smithfield team scored 129 and third place Cranston West scored 139. 

With the win, Barrington High School earned an invitation to nationals, which will be held at Cornell University, in Ithaca, NY, in late May. 

"All of our students medaled in at least one of their events, if not all three," wrote one of the BHS coaches, Kara West. "Notably, Daniel Sheinberg got gold in all three of his events and Sam Wohlever got gold in three of his four events but they all did so well it is hard to even put a few at the forefront."

Sheinberg finished first in the Codebusters, Designer Genes, and Disease Detectives categories, while Wohlever finished first in Codebusters, Dynamic Planet, and Sounds of Music. Other first place finishers included Callan Whitney (Geomapping), Sam Yuan (Thermodynamics), Johnny Zhang (Designer Genes), Annika Kelly (Thermodynamics, and Codebusters), Rachel Kovach-Fuentes (Disease Detectives, and Geomapping), Amy Zhao (Dynamic Planet), Sudiksha Mallick (Sounds of Music), Lila Ackley (Write It Do It), Jessica Liang (Fermi Questions, and Forensics), Kelly Gorman (Fermi Questions), and Alexander Maddock-Mark (Write It Do It).

Members of the Barrington High School Science Olympiad team are planning some fund-raisers to help off-set the cost of traveling to nationals.

Middle school team

Kristyn Whitney and her son Callan (who is also a member of the BHS team) recently helped coach the Barrington Middle School Science Olympiad team to a second place finish at states.

BMS came up just nine points shy of winning the state championship — the local students scored 119 points while Gallagher Middle School finished in first place with 110 points. Kickemuit Middle School was third with 126 points. 

Barrington Middle School students medaled in 14 of the 23 events.

Izzy Mysak and Priya Gottlieb finished first in Disease Detectives; Shaswat Singh, Aidan Hurlock and Cassin Edgar-Smith were tops in Experimental Design; Mysak and Hurlock finished first in Fossils; and Katarina Whitney and Caitlyn McConville finished first in Roller Coaster. 

A number of other Barrington Middle School students won silver and bronze medals also.