Lyme-Old Lyme Science Olympiad teams finished first and third at the Science Olympiad State Tournament in Farmington this month. The team will advance to the national tournament in May.

Students from Lyme-Old Lyme middle and high schools, coached by Shannon Glorioso and Elizabeth Dushin, will represent both the school district and the state at the national tournament at the University of Wisconsin–Stout May 20-21. More than 5,000 students, educators, parents, and a team from Japan, are expected to attend the tournament. 

At the March 19 state tournament, Lyme-Old Lyme claimed 12 gold medals, 10 silver medals and 4 bronze medals.

A science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) competition, Science Olympiad brings together winning middle school and high school teams that will advance from state-level competitions this spring.

Science Olympiad team competitors include:

Grade 9

Gary Bocian, Brynn McGlinchey, Kylie Hall, Sarah Hayward, Emily O’Brien, Nic Roth, Colin Hallahan, Tessa Allan, Claire Britton, and Noah Crolius.

Grade 8

Audrey Berry, Ethan Carrion, Rory Cavicke, Julia DiMella, Corrine Grayson, Mitra Kardestuncer, Rachael Larson, Lizzy McCarthy, Ryan McTigue, Sami Olson, Nate Ramella, Evan St. Louis, and Jeffy Joshy and Nick Fava (building support).

Grade 7

Benton Arafeh-Hudson, Dean Bruce, Kate Cheney, Sadie Frankel, Jackson Goulding, Bella Hine, Regan Kaye, Maddy Maskell, Brendan McTigue and Connie Pan.

Grade 6

Olivia Catalano, Jack Conley, Eleanor Dushin, Ahmed Diagne, Elias D’Onofrio, Nicolette Hallahan, Kian Kardestuncer, Ali Kyle, Johnnie Moriarty, Sam Mullaney, Aksel Sather, Drew St. Louis, Nikolai Stevens-Zumbaum and Alexandra Tinniswood.

Coaches and former Science Olympiad competitors included Cole Dushin, Ryan Harty, Kiran Nadkarni, Jacob Olson, Ryan Ramella, and Emma Sked.

Community and parent coaches are Liz Frankel, Don Gonci, Greg Hall, Jen Hall, Cheryl Hayward, Rick Kaye, Chris Kyle, Sean McTigue, Tony Ramella, Lucy Walter, John Walter, John Koptonak, Dick Shriver and Michael Perks.

The team is fundraising to help with the cost of the trip to Wisconsin. Donations can be made at www.gofundme.com/lolscienceolympiad) or by sending checks made out to RSD 18 to Lyme-Old Lyme Middle School, 53 Lyme St., Old Lyme, CT 06731; attention Shannon Glorioso.