Huntington Solid in Suffolk Science Olympiad
The Suffolk Science Olympiad drew entries from dozens of high schools and featured some of the state’s top science students competing against one another in 21 different categories. Two teams from Huntington High School more than held their own, winning a total of three medals.
A contingent of 29 Huntington students and teacher-coaches Lori Pyzocha, Dame Forbes, Joe Cohen, and Anna Fabela participated in the challenging event, which was held on a frigid Saturday earlier this month.
“Some of the students have been preparing for this since September,” said David Casamento, district director of science and instructional technology.
Huntington’s Michelle Byrne and Carrie Fante captured fourth place the ecology category and sisters Julie and Kaja Coraor were fourth in the “write it/do it” category. A second team consisting of John Coffey and Matt Petryk earned fifth place in “write it/do it.”
Overall, “Huntington 1” took 20th place in the final standing while “Huntington 2” finished 29th. The competition drew four dozen entries.
“Huntington 1” consisted of Colleen Teubner, Kirsten Freiman, Caitlin Etri, Rebecca Silverman, Justin Greenidge, Dan Rabinowitz, Amber Linder, Kaja Coraor, Andrew Ku, Michelle Byrne, Carrie Fante, Juli Coraor, Adam Cerini, Collin Richardson and Matthew Beeby.
“Huntington 2” was comprised of Andrea Cerini, Tatiana DiPalo, Everett Coraor, Alexander Chisolm, Matt Petryk, Holly Flores, Jason Chisolm, Frank Yeh, David Stillman, Dan Tuohey, Emmad Khwaja, Will Hannon, Luke Reigot, John Coffey and Eric Sze.
“I am so proud of our teams, especially in light of the fact that this is only our second year participating,” Mr. Casamento said. “Last year we entered one team and this year the enthusiasm level was so high that we entered two teams. Most of the other teams have been doing this competition for 10 or 20 years. It is my belief that having our own Huntington Science Olympiad will make our teams even stronger in years to come.”
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