by George Flatau, science department head and chemistry teacher
With the original date of the Nashville section of the Chemistry Olympiad cancelled due to snow and ice, three motivated scholars took it upon themselves to take the test over Spring Break.
Those efforts proved fruitful, as all three placed in the top six in the section. Lydia Warren placed second overall, followed closely by Starina D'souza and Sarah Young, who tied for fourth (Sarah would place higher as a result of her performance on certain tiebreaking questions). In the absence of a team competition due to the weather cancellation, I interpret those results as a second straight Local section victory for USN.
With rules limiting each school's next level qualifiers to two, Lydia and Sarah will take the National level test in a few weeks' time.
Aliza Ahmed '26, Uma Ehrig '26, Victor Peng '26, Ruchika Ramachandran '27, and Yvonne Wang '27 participated in the Asian Educators Alliance conference this year in Atlanta, Georgia.
Anna Brook '30, Claire Yu '30, Clio Cherry-Pulay '29, and Liam Mooney '28 took him the championship during the 4th annual USN Middle School Quiz Bowl Championships. Two teams will travel to Chicago to compete in the National Academic Quiz Tournaments Middle School National Championships on Saturday, May 10.
Cpl. Robert Gibson joined University School of Nashville in November as a School Resource Officer, a certified police officer who is primarily assigned to a school and provides safety and security-related functions, including emergency response, safety training, traffic direction, and patrol functions.
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