Congratulations Science Olympiad Team for Top 10 finish nationally!

Congratulations to Washington State Champions EMS SciOly team on winning the 8^th place team trophy out of 60 teams that competed in the Science Olympiad National tournament held at USC Los Angeles, CA on May 23^rd, 2026. The team also medaled in Remote Sensing (1st place), Metric Mastery (3^rd place), Mission Possible (6^th place), and trial event Botany (6^th place).

The Team: Antony Predescu, Anya Parson, Arjun Chittamuru, Arya Kiran, Ishi Kumar, Kavin Sudhakar, Modi Wang, Nina Rajesh, Rithesh Rajagopal, Saanvi Nambiar, Sabeer Shaikot, Sachin Shankar, Shravya Shah, Vikas Nekkalapudi, Ziyao Xu, and for trial events Viaan Agarwal.

Excellent work from the students and dedicated head coaches Raja Venkatachalam, Sunitha Marrapu and Radhika Jandhyala! Huge thank you to the parent coaches who put in invaluable effort throughout the last three years. In addition, we would like to convey our thanks for build consulting help from Mr. Kaushik Pushpavanam and Mr. Pranav Kedia, whose kids graduated from EMS in previous years, and to Mr. Asher Cupp, State SciOly gold medalist and recent graduate of Eastlake High School.