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CONTACT: Shannon Glorioso, [email protected]
Lyme-Old Lyme Science Olympiad team takes first place!
Lyme-Old Lyme had two teams compete at the Science Olympiad State Tournament held at Irving A. Robbins
Middle School in Farmington, Connecticut. Lyme-Old Lyme teams placed 1st and 3rd which advances the team
to the 32nd Annual Science Olympiad National Tournament where Lyme-Old Lyme will represent the state of
Connecticut!
The National Tournament will be held at The University of Wisconsin–Stout (UWS). UWS will host more than
5,000 students, educators and parents from all 50 states as well as a dignitary team from Japan during
the weekend of May 20-21, 2016. During that weekend, a team of talented students from the Lyme-Old Lyme
Middle and High Schools in Old Lyme, coached by Shannon Glorioso and Elizabeth Dushin, will represent both
our amazing school district and the Lyme-Old Lyme community as well as the State of Connecticut at the
National Tournament.
At the State tournament held on March 19, 2016, Lyme-Old Lyme was called to the podium for individual
medals in 20 of the 23 events, and claimed a total of 12 gold medals, 10 silver medals and 4 bronze medals.
Science Olympiad team competitors include:
9th Grade: Gary Bocian, Brynn McGlinchey, Kylie Hall, Sarah Hayward, Emily O’Brien, Nic Roth, Colin
Hallahan, Tessa Allan, Claire Britton, and Noah Crolius.
8th Grade: Audrey Berry, Ethan Carrion, Rory Cavicke, Julia DiMella, Corrine Grayson, Mitra Kardestuncer,
Rachael Larson, Lizzy McCarthy, Ryan McTigue, Sami Olson, Nate Ramella, Evan St. Louis, Jeffy Joshy
(building support) and Nick Fava (building support).
7th Grade: Benton Arafeh-Hudson, Dean Bruce, Kate Cheney, Sadie Frankel, Jackson Goulding, Bella Hine,
Regan Kaye, Maddy Maskell, Brendan McTigue and Connie Pan.
6th Grade: Olivia Catalano, Jack Conley, Eleanor Dushin, Ahmed Diagne, Elias D’Onofrio, Nicolette Hallahan,
Kian Kardestuncer, Ali Kyle, Johnnie Moriarty, Sam Mullaney, Aksel Sather, Drew St. Louis, Nikolai StevensZumbaum and Alexandra Tinniswood.
The team is grateful to the fantastic volunteer coaches who make our success possible:
Lyme-Old Lyme High School Student Coaches and former Science Olympiad competitors: Cole Dushin,
Ryan Harty, Kiran Nadkarni, Jacob Olson, Ryan Ramella, and Emma Sked.
Community and Parent Coaches: Liz Frankel, Don Gonci, Greg Hall, Jen Hall, Cheryl Hayward, Rick Kaye,
Chris Kyle, Sean McTigue, Tony Ramella, Lucy Walter, John Walter, John Koptonak, Dick Shriver, Michael
Perks.
Special thanks to Ashley Glorioso, Tracy McGlinchey and Sherri Ramella. We thank Regional School District
18 Superintendent Ian Neviaser, Middle School Principal Michelle Dean and Middle School Vice Principal Neil
Sullivan for their support. Benchmark Wealth Management generously sponsors the Lyme-Old Lyme Science
Olympiad team.
Recognized as one of the nation’s most prestigious science, technology, engineering and math (STEM)
competitions, Science Olympiad brings together 120 winning middle school and high school teams advancing
from state-level competitions this spring. Rigorous hands-on and lab events led by experts from government
agencies, top universities and Science Olympiad state chapters cover topics in physics, epidemiology,
astronomy, chemistry, meteorology and engineering.
Science Olympiad is a Chicago-area-based national nonprofit organization founded in 1984. It is dedicated to
improving the quality of K-12 STEM education, increasing student interest in science, creating a
technologically literate workforce and providing recognition for outstanding achievement by both students and
teachers. More than 220,000 students on 7,300 teams from all 50 states competed in 390 regional, state and
national Science Olympiad tournaments last year.
The team will be fundraising to help with the cost of the trip to Wisconsin in May. We would really appreciate
any donations that will help us to represent Lyme-Old Lyme and the State of Connecticut at Nationals. If
you would like to donate, please visit our GoFundMe page, or send checks made out to RSD 18 to Lyme-Old
Lyme Middle School, 53 Lyme Street, Old Lyme, CT 06731, attention Shannon Glorioso.
https://www.gofundme.com/lolscienceolympiad
Thank you for your support!