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Rufus King, Homestead and Vernon Hills are tops in competition

Published: 11/28/2006 Bookmark and Share

Milwaukee School of Engineering's annual Opportunity Conference was held Nov. 17-21, 2006. The 27th annual conference drew teams from throughout Wisconsin and Northern Illinois to compete and demonstrate excellence in the areas of computers, mathematics and science. Trophies, medals and plaques were awarded to recognize top individual and team scores, and all students received t-shirts for their participation.

The top placing teams were:

COMPUTER COMPETITION

1st place: Rufus King High School, Milwaukee, Wis.
Teacher: Mr. Thomas Wozniak
Team Members: Josh Lindquist, Nick Fiala, Andrew Meyer, Kevin Paprocki

2nd Place: Parker High School, Janesville, Wis.
Teacher: Mr. Robert Getka
Team Members: Tim Jansen, James Nystrom, Brandon Harbit, Joseph Gorrell

3rd Place: Whitewater High School, Whitewater, Wis.
Teacher: Laura Masbruch
Team Members: Devon Albert, Sam Moffatt, Ben Heller, Hans Werner

MATH COMPETITION

1st place: Homestead High School, Mequon, Wis.
Teacher: Monica Gantner
Team Members: Alex Wyler, Mike Sullivan, Yunhao Zhu, Valerie Smeshko, Margaret Fortney, Arjun Adusumilli, Jonathan Yu, Lars Kemmann

2nd place: University School of Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wis.
Teacher: Steven Bertucci
Team Members: Natasha Ahuja, Sarah Hallett, David Havens, Sanjay Hariharan, Faisal Hussaini, Ryan Khanna, John Luckey, Doug Schadewald

3rd place: Arrowhead High School, Hartland, Wis.
Teacher: Cammy Ley
Team Members: Justin Sattler, Katherine Williams, Bryan Reuter, Alyssa Pon-Franklin, Nicole Levac, Richard Pratt, Joel Prince, Ryan Dwyer

SCIENCE COMPETITION

1st place: Vernon Hills, Vernon Hills, Ill.
Teacher: Mr. Joshua Ravenscraft
Team Members: Diana Chen, Leeza Stul, Shaun Fernandes, Khalid Khayr, Andrey Dolinko, Alan Xu, Jonathan Chua, Omar Hassan

2nd place: Libertyville, Libertyville, Ill.
Teacher: Mr. Peter Dawson
Team Members: Xiao Mai, Stephanie Sliwa, Zach Yordy, Michael Tremmel, Jackson Lai, Joju Varghese, Karen Li, Vivek Raman

3rd place: Arrowhead, Hartland, Wis.
Teacher: Cheri Kaiser
Team Members: Bryan Reuter, Colin Giligan, Kevin Rymut, Amy Class, Ben Booth, Tiernan Meyer, Ryan Dwyer, Matt Zuberbueler,