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Nysmith Places 1st in Nation in Gold Division for WordMasters™ Challenge

May 19, 2016, 8:45 am
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The Nysmith School fourth graders participated in the WordMasters™ Challenge for the 2015-2016 school year. This national competition tests students on analogies with 75 vocabulary words.

There were three challenges during the school year. For the third and final challenge, Nysmith placed 1st in the nation in the Gold Division.

Nine Nysmith students scored a perfect score on the third challenge: Aanya Kolli, Amal Wooldridge, Cameron Ake, Claire Tarallo, Clara Yu, Dishaa Bhat, Ella Bentley, Hannah Park and Hillary Yoon.

Additionally, Nysmith placed 1st overall with a score of 581.

Special recognition is given to those who score the highest out of a possible 60. Congratulations to Amal Wooldridge with a score of 59, Claire Tarallo and Sammy Cottrell both with a score of 58, and Cameron Ake,  Ella Greene, Aanya Kolli and Hannah Park with a score of 57.

Click here to see full results.

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Nysmith 5th Graders Excel in the Noetic Learning Math Contest

May 26, 2016, 6:24 am
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The Noetic Learning Math Contest (NLMC) is a semiannual problem-solving contest for elementary and middle school students. The goal of the competition is to encourage students’ interest in math, to develop their problem-solving skills, and to inspire them to excel in math.

During the contest, students are given 45 minutes to solve 20 problems. Many problems are designed to challenge students and to enrich their problem-solving experiences.

Nysmith 5th-grade students participated in the spring 2016 contest.  We had one perfect score, 10 students who placed on the National Honor Roll with a score of 85 and above, and 30 students who were given Honorable Mention with a score of 55 and above.

Congratulations 5th graders!

For more information: http://www.noetic-learning.com/mathcontest/

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“Loudoun Eighth-Grader Eyes a Cure for Cancer, Partners with Research Team”

January 31, 2017, 10:43 am
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From The Loudoun Times-Mirror:

Alex Misiaszek, an eighth-grader at Nysmith School for the Gifted, is collaborating with a research team in Baltimore to create an organism inside the human body that produces a cancer-killing molecule. The student will spend his free time researching and developing his hypotheses with professional scientists. Misiaszek says his motivations is simply “to help people.”

“Cancer is a horrible disease. We’ve all lost family member and friends to it,” he said. “Finding a cure for cancer has always been a fascination for me and I’m really glad I get to pursue it.”

Misiaszek said his ground breaking idea came in part from  a science project he did last year.

“I took the DNA from a coral cell that made it red and then I put it into an E. Coli cell to prove that if you took DNA from one organism and put it into a foreign one, the foreign organism will pass that trait onto its offspring,” he explained.

For the full article go to: 
http://www.loudountimes.com/news/article/loudoun_eighth_grader_with_an_idea_for_
curing_cancer_partners_with_research

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“Va. Boy, 13, Working to Help Find Cancer Cure”

November 4, 2016, 7:27 am
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by Amy Aubert, ABC7

Friday, November 4th, 2016

HERNDON, Va. (ABC7) — 13-year-old Alex Misiaszek goes about his Friday, at Nysmith School for the Gifted in Herndon, just like any other 8th grader.

“Alright, let’s see what we can come up with,” Misiaszek said, smiling.

He says he’s on his way to helping find a cure for cancer.

“I’m really glad that I can hopefully help people with this cancer cure, that’s really my main goal in life is to help as many people as I can,” said Misiaszek.

He says after his grandfather passed away from cancer, he wanted to work to find a cure.

“I’ve always been fascinated by the disease because it’s such a terrible thing and I thought there had to be some sort of a solution,” he said.

He’s taking his 7th grade science project to the next level.

“Imagine these two weights are cells and the one without the red is the healthy cell and the one with the red is the cancer cell. And these two marbles are the MP1 molecules,” said Misiaszek, demonstrating how his project would work.

He says after presenting his idea this fall, a team of researchers at the Baltimore Underground Science Space are planning to help him along the way.

“In the cancer cell, the MP1 molecule can actually bind to the cell membrane and bore large holes in it, thus causing the cell to die,” he further explained.

He says he’s still in the early steps of making his project a reality.

Tom Burkett, the Founder of the Baltimore Underground Science Space, says they are excited to work with Misiaszek and thought his project was a great idea. They plan to offer advice and support along the way. Msiaszek says he’s planning to work on the project at the Baltimore Underground Science Space about once a week.

See video of Alex and the article on WJLA.com here:  http://wjla.com/news/local/13-year-old-working-to-help-find-a-cure-for-cancer

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“Nysmith Team Wins Highest Honors in WordMasters Challenge”

February 22, 2017, 11:00 am
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February 1, 2017

Herndon — A fourth grade team from The Nysmith School in Herndon achieved Highest Honors in the recent WordMasters Challenge—a national vocabulary competition involving nearly 150,000 students annually—scoring an impressive 185 points out of a possible 200 to place third in the nation.

Rishabh Kumaran (of Herndon) and Nicholas Toskey (South Riding) each earned a perfect score, making them two of only 22 fourth graders in the country to do so. Nysmith’s Ananya Kakayadi (Reston) also recorded an outstanding score competing in the event’s highly competitive Gold division.

The WordMasters Challenge is an exercise in critical thinking that first encourages students to become familiar with a set of interesting new words (considerably harder than grade level) and then challenges them to use those words to complete analogies expressing various kinds of logical relationships. Working to solve the analogies helps students learn to think both analytically and metaphorically. Although most vocabulary enrichment and analogy-solving programs are designed for high school students, WordMasters Challenge materials have been specifically created for students in Grades 3-8.

 

http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/news/2017/feb/01/week-herndon/

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Feb. 2017: Nysmith Student Aces AMC 10, Invited to AIME Test

February 27, 2017, 8:18 am
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The AMC 10 is a 25-question, 75-minute, multiple-choice examination in high school mathematics designed to promote the development and enhancement of problem-solving skills.  The AMC 10 is for students in 10th grade and below, and covers the high school curriculum up to 10th grade.

The results of the February 2017 AMC 10 are in and several Nysmith students had exemplary performances.

Eighth-grader Anuraag Kaashyap was our top scorer with a result of 114, which puts him in the top 2.5% of all scorers and earned him an invitation to sit for the AIME Test.  The AIME Test is the second of two tests used to qualify students for the USA Mathematical Olympiad.

Eighth-grader Yuvraj Sethi also had a strong test finishing second in the school with a score of 109.5.

Zani Xu, a fifth-grader (!) was third in the school, coming in just behind Yuvraj at 108.

In addition, Anand Advani (grade 7) and Whitman Ochiai (grade 8) received Certificates of Achievement for scoring above 90.

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Mar. 2017: Nysmith Students Win at Debate Tournament

March 6, 2017, 5:28 am
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The results of the March 2017 DCUDL debate tournament are in and several Nysmith students had exemplary performances. The topic was “Resolved: The United States should no longer pressure Israel to work towards a two-state solution”.

Eighth-grade students Alex and Vikram places 1st overall in the varsity division.

Sarang and McKenzie placed 2nd overall in the varsity division.

Congratulations to all our students who represented the Nysmith School and performed exceptionally well and to their coach, Ms. Dragg.

The debate took place at Woodbridge Friendship School on Saturday, March 4th.

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Mar. 2017: Nysmith Wins National Science Bowl® Regional Competition!

March 6, 2017, 11:59 am
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The Nysmith Science Bowl® team of Kaien Yang (Captain), Aneesh Edava, Anuraag Kaashyap and Yuvy Sethi won the 2017 Virginia State Championship title on March 4th, 2017, at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, VA.

The Nysmith team will represent Virginia at the National Science Bowl Finals to be held at the National 4-H Youth Conference Center just outside of Washington, D.C., April 27 – May 1.

The team had a stellar performance demonstrating in-depth subject matter area knowledge, outstanding problem-solving skills and teamwork. The team went undefeated in all matches. The team credits the success to the strong support from The Nysmith School and the parents who coached them.

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Mar. 2017: 1st Place in Odyssey of the Mind Regional Competition

March 27, 2017, 7:17 am
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On March 25, 2017, the 4th-grade Nysmith School Odyssey of the Mind team, comprised of Henry Pan, Anaahita Kaashyap, Nyla Kathuria, Veer Dabbi, Austin Greene, Anderson Jones, and Rishabh Kumaran represented The Nysmith School with distinction.  Their creative solution and performance resulted in the First Place title in the Odyssey of the Mind Regional Competition.

The team, coached by Vernice Gibson-Jones and former Nysmith student Maxwell Jones, competed in the Division II Technical Problem entitled, “Odd-A-Bot.” The team impressed the judges with their hand-crafted Odd-A-Bot ‘robot’ that (1) witnessed and duplicated four human activities, then (2) applied the movements in a new way, producing humorous results.  The long-term solution to this technical problem was set in the Robocup, a world cup competition for robots.

The team will advance to the Odyssey of the Mind State Competition on April 1st, 2017!

Congrats to our creative problem solvers!

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Apr. 2017: 1st Place Win at DC Urban Debate League High School Tournament

April 26, 2017, 4:48 am
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Two eighth-grade Nysmith students, Alex Joel and Caroline Huber, placed first in the novice division at the DC Urban Debate League High School Tournament at Woodrow Wilson High School in Washington, DC, on Saturday, April 15th. Debating for the first time in a high school tournament, Alex and Caroline won the championship after competing in five rounds of debate.

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Apr. 2017: Debate Team Wins Again

April 26, 2017, 4:54 am
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The Nysmith School Debate Team competed April 8, 2017, at the Maya Angelou French Immersion School Public Forum Tournament. Students debated one of our most difficult topics: The United States ought to replace the Electoral College with a direct national popular vote.

Congratulations to the following students!

1st place – Sankrith Ramani and Raed Mirza

3rd place – Anvi Kalyana and Cami Hiek

6th place – Mika Dewar and Alisha Luthra

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May 2017: Robotics Team Wins at 2017 VEX Worlds VEX IQ Challenge

May 9, 2017, 4:55 am
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Matthew Li’s Vex IQ Robotics team (999A) took part in the 2017 VEX Worlds VEX IQ Challenge competition in Louisville, KY, and won the highest award from the competition: the Excellence Award.  The team is thrilled, and we at Nysmith are very proud!

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May 2017: Nysmith Wins Multiple National Latin Exam Awards

May 9, 2017, 5:00 am
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Congratulations to the seventh and eighth grade students on their phenomenal performance on the ACL/NJCL National Latin Exam! The National Latin Exam covers Latin grammar, vocabulary, history, geography and mythology.

This year the exam was taken by over 149,000 students in all 50 states and 16 other countries.

Nysmith seventh grade students earned 24 awards, including one perfect score!

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May 2017: Top 16 at You Be the Chemist Virginia State Challenge

May 9, 2017, 5:34 am
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Vance Kreider finished in the top 16 at Saturday’s You Be the Chemist Virginia State Challenge.  The competition took place at the MathScience Innovation Center in Henrico, Virginia.

Way to go, Vance!

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May 2017: Multiple Wins at North South Foundation Regionals

May 9, 2017, 5:42 am
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Congrats to our North South Foundation Regional Winners!

Junior Spelling: 1st place, Rushil Kukreja

Senior Spelling: 3rd place, Sahithi Alturi

Math Level 1: 1st place, Rushil Kukreja; 2nd place, Riya Srikumar

Math Level 2: 2nd place, Vidhi Sharma

Intermediate Science: 1st place Vidhi Sharma

Contests organized by the North South Foundation (NSF) in the U.S. are designed to encourage academic excellence among children in grades K-12. The NSF conducts contests in spelling, vocabulary, math, essay writing, public speaking,  neuroscience and geography. Some of the NSF children have achieved top ranks in the Scripps National Spelling Bee, MATHCOUNTS and National Geographic Bee.

For more information on the North South Foundation, visit: http://www.northsouth.org/public/main/home.aspx

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May 2017: Nysmith Wins at Music In The Parks Festival

May 9, 2017, 6:09 am
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The Nysmith Band competed on Friday, May 5th at the Music In The Parks Festival at Busch Gardens in Williamsburg, VA.

The Beginning Band won 1st place, Intermediate Band won 3rd place and Jazz Band won 1st place.

Eighth-grader Vance Kreider won the Best Jazz Soloist award and medal out of hundreds of students participating in the festival!

  

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May 2017: SCI Math Minds Contest Grand Prize Winner

May 9, 2017, 6:15 am
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Congratulations to Rushil Kukreja! He won the Grand Prize Award for 2nd grade in the 4th Annual SCI Math Minds contest held Saturday, May 6th, 2017, at Thomas Jefferson High School.

Thomas Jefferson High School principal Dr. Evan Glazer presented Rushil with his award and a check for $150!

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May 2017: “Nysmith School students find success in debate tournament”

May 12, 2017, 11:45 am
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May 10, 2017

Nysmith students win debate crown

Two Nysmith School eighth-graders – Alex Joel of McLean and Caroline Huber of Great Falls – won the championship in the novice division of the recent D.C. Urban Debate League High School Tournament.

The two students were debating for the first time in a high-school tournament. The topic was “The U.S. ought to replace the Electoral College with a direct national popular vote.”

A Nysmith School team consisting of sixth-graders Raed Mirza of Great Falls and Sankrith Ramani of Herndon won the middle-school division of the recent D.C. Urban Debate League tournament. A team consisting of Cameron Hiek of Great Falls and Anvi Kalyana of Herndon finished third in the competition.

See the story online here.

And find more coverage on Alex and Caroline in the Sun Gazette here (turn to page 15).

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May 2017: Debate Domination!

May 22, 2017, 8:00 am
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Nysmith students dominated the DC Urban Debate League Tournament at St. Patrick’s Episcopal Day School in Washington, DC on Saturday, May 20th.

Competing undefeated in five rounds of debate in the Varsity Division, Ben Joel and Aaron Joy placed first, and Alex Joel and Caroline Huber took second place.  Two other teams of Nysmith students, Cami Heik and Anvi Kalyana, and Raed Mirza and Sankrith Ramani, placed third and fourth respectively.

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May 2017: Nysmith Student Achieves Perfect Score on National Latin Exam

May 23, 2017, 10:37 am
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Nysmith seventh-grader Anand Advani achieved a perfect score on the 2017 Introduction to Latin National Latin Exam.

Only 299 students out of over 15,000 who participated in the entire United States, Taiwan, Canada, England, New Zealand, Australia, Hong Kong, Netherlands, China, Italy, Germany, Singapore, Belize, France, Spain, Zimbabwe, and the United Arab Emirates attained this distinction.

What an extraordinary achievement!  We are so proud of Anand!

To view the full award letter, click here: Latin Exam 2017.

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