Evergreen Middle School (EMS) Team Blue took third place in overall team ranking and received the top-scoring new team award in the Washington Science Olympiad Regional Tournament on March 7 at Highline Community College. Seven Redmond Middle School (RMS) students won individual awards. EMS Team Blue also qualified to participate in the State Tournament on April 18. The following students are on EMS Team Blue:

Kishan Baliga (seventh grade)

Sanjay Burugapalli (seventh grade)

Kevin Cai (eighth grade)

Siddharth Chandrasekar (seventh grade)

Neha Dalia (seventh grade)

Suraj Dhulipalla (seventh grade)

Ayan Gupta (seventh grade)

Sathvik Kakanuru (seventh grade)

Tejasree Kandibanda (seventh grade)

Sanjai Prabakarraj (seventh grade)

Maneesh Rajagopal (seventh grade)

Arpit Ranasaria (seventh grade)

Siddharth Shende (seventh grade)

Chaitanya Vankireddy (seventh grade)

Siddharth Vijay (seventh grade)

• Eight seventh-graders from RMS participated in the event. The following students won medals:

Darren Denq – gold medal for Simple Machines; bronze medal for Bridge Building

Atul Ajoy and Riya Yerramilli – gold medal for Bio Process Lab

Abhignya Mantha and Rabeeya Asif – silver medal for Game On

Anirudh Iyer and Mukil Shanmugam – fourth place ribbon for Road Scholar