Barrington is ready for the Ivy League. 

The Barrington High School Science Olympiad team celebrated two top-10 finishes at a pair of recent Ivy League Science Olympiad Invitationals. 

At the Harvard Invitational, Barrington finished 10th out of 74 teams. And at the Brown University Science Olympiad Invitational, Barrington High School students finished sixth out of 54 teams — that marked the first time in more than five years that a Barrington High School team celebrated a top-six finish at an invitational event. 

Rahul Yehiya and Isabelle Chen led the way for Barrington at the Brown Invitational. The BHS students finished second in the “Write it, Do it” event. Zayan Azman and Ellie Dunn partnered up to finish fourth in the Forensics event, and Neal Bansal and Will Sturla also celebrated a fourth place finish, theirs in Optics. David Xiong and Isabelle Chen finished fifth in Towers, and Iris Yang and Ellie Dunn captured fifth place in Ecology. 

The Barrington High School Science Olympiad team boasts a number of talented competitors. The A Team is comprised of David Xiong, Vineet Abbineni, Vignesh Peddi, Isabelle Chen, Rahul Yehiya, Iris Yang, Michelle Xian, Athena Gao, Ellie Dunn, Ana Sanchez, Neal Bansal, Will Sturla, Zayan Azman, Maddox Godwin, Sid Gupta and Alan Weng. The B Team features Andrew Dunn, Troy Tian, Henry Humphreys, Karthik Mitta, Cole Kepner, Hirniksha Dutta, Onson Tieu, Matthew Tian, Mie Green, Gianni DiGoia, Nate Hennings, Ben Zhang, Noah Higbie, Hud Saeed and Sophia Gao.

Preparing for States

After finishing in the top-10 at both Ivy invitationals, Barrington is now preparing for the State Science Olympiad. Team members said Barrington High School has won the state title the last 13 years. 

The team is hoping to make it 14 this April, when officials hold this year’s State Science Olympiad. If BHS does win, the local team will travel to the Science Olympiad Nationals.