By Aryan Sikhinam – Staff Reporter

Jonathan Law’s Science Club participated at the Connecticut Science Olympiad at UConn in Storrs on March 11. 

Science teachers Ms. Turcotte, Mr. Stanton and Ms. Gagnon are the advisors of the Science Club.

“The Jonathan Law Science Club is a platform for students to connect and explore their interests in STEM.” said Science Club’s President Rishabh Nair. “You can engage in a range of activities such as conducting experiments, building contraptions and learning more about a specific science topic.”

Science Club also recently participated in an overnight trip at the MIT invitational Science Olympiad in January.

“The events range from things like Chem Lab, Forensics, Cell Bio, Rocks and Minerals, Code Busters, etc.” Turcotte said. “Students must study the content related to that event and prepare to either take an exam, or perform a lab investigation.”

Over 30 teams from all around Connecticut participated in the UConn Science Olympiad, including Foran High School.  

“This past weekend the team went to the States competition at UConn and we did great,” junior Science Club Vice President Moulika Sivalenka said. ”It was exciting and fun for our members and we had a great time there.”

Members had a great time competing in the Olympiad.

“I really enjoyed my experience at UConn’s Science Olympiad,” Science Club member Kishal Shah said. “I also liked getting to meet people from different schools and seeing what they created and learned, so that I could expand my knowledge from them.”

Science Club is split into two teams – an the A team and B team. The A team has mostly upperclassmen, while B team is primarily underclassmen.

At UConn, Law’s A Team earned two first place medals and one fourth place medal. The B Team won three second place medals and one first place medal.

The A and B teams finished 11th and 13th place overall respectively at the UConn Science Olympiad.

Junior Srivarsh Gudlavaletti and junior Jasper Chu won first place in Bridge and junior Moulika Sivalenka and sophomore Deepika Chitirala won first place in “Write It, Do It.”

“Me and Jasper won first place at the bridge building event at Science Olympiad,” Gudlavaletti said. ”in this event we were required to make a bridge in which we must hold weight at the center of the bridge” 

Science Club has participated previously at Brown, Princeton and Harvard in addition to MIT and UConn. 

The Science Club meets every Monday after school in Room 212.