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April 2016: Nysmith Student Wins First Place in the 2016 Johns Hopkins...
On April 16, Brian Zhou participated in the 2016 Johns Hopkins University Science Bowl Competition and won first place! On March 16, US Math League announced 2016 Grade 6 Math League contest results,...
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April 2016: Nysmith Teams Excel at DCUDL Holy Trinity Championships
This past weekend, students competed in the DCUDL Holy Trinity Championships! The topic was a difficult one: To alleviate income inequality in the United States, increased spending on public...
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May 2016: NYSMITH STUDENTS ADVANCE TO NATIONAL HISTORY BEE FINALS IN CHICAGO
The Nysmith School had 9 students participate in the History Bee Regional Finals and all advanced to the National Finals in Chicago from June 9th-12th! Congratulations to Aaron Joy, elise Bejtlich,...
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Nysmith Team Places 3rd in Their Division in the National Science Bowl®...
The National Science Bowl® (NSB) for middle school was established in 2002, and is a competitive event for middle school students. School teams compete in a fast-paced question and answer format to...
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May 2016: Nysmith Team Places 2nd. in Virginia State Math Competition
Congratulations to our Nysmith team who placed second overall in the Virginia State Math contest held this past weekend. The Virginia State Math contest was for students in grades 3-6. The team...
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May 2016: Nysmith Students Excel at 3rd Annual Fairfax County Elementary and...
Nysmith students excelled at the 3rd Annual Fairfax County Elementary and Middle School Science and Engineering Fair organized by Pinnacle Academy, Broadcom MASTERS and College of Science, George...
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May 2016: Nysmith Places First in the Nation in the Gold Division for...
The Nysmith School fourth graders participated in the WordMasters™ Challenge this year. This national competition tests students on analogies with 75 vocabulary words. There were three challenges...
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May 2016: Nysmith 5th Graders Excel in the Noetic Learning Math Contest
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...
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MAY 2016: NYSMITH PLACES 13TH IN THE WORLD AT ODYSSEY OF THE MIND FINALS
The 6th grade Odyssey of the Mind team, the Nysmith Brainy Bunch, had a flawless presentation last week at the Odyssey of the Mind World Finals at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. Over 800 teams...
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June 2016: Nysmith Students Excel at the Fairfax American Regions Mathematics...
Nysmith students Ajit Kadaveru (8C) and Kaien Yang (7A) were invited to compete as part of a 15-person Fairfax American Regions Mathematics League (ARML) team at Penn State University. The Fairfax...
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April 2016: Nysmith Wins Top School in the Nation and Top School for the DC...
This past weekend Ben Silverman, Tarina Ahuja, and Yash Somaiya competed in the ESU MSPDP National Tournament in Allentown, NJ! The topics were: The US should establish a no-fly zone in Syria. The US...
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September 2016: Kaien Yang Named Top Finalist in Broadcom MASTERS®
Kaien Yang was named one of the top 30 finalists in the nation in the Broadcom MASTERS®, the nation’s prestigious Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) middle school competition....
View ArticleOctober 2016: 8th Grade Student Kaien Yang Wins 3rd Place in Nation at 3M...
Congratulations to 8th grade student Kaien Yang, for winning 3rd place in the nation at the 2016 3M Science Competition held in St. Paul Minnesota . Kaien developed a way to use pumpkin seed oil to...
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NYSMITH 7TH GRADE PARLIAMENTARY DEBATE TEAM GO UNDEFEATED (4-0) AT SIDWELL...
Congratulations to the Nysmith 7th grade Parliamentary debate team, consisting of Emma Jing, Ethan Yu, and Christian Schipma for accomplishing an undefeated, 4-0 record, at the Sidwell Quaker debates....
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November 2016: Broadcom MASTERS Awards Kaien Yang $10,000 at 2016 National...
Nysmith student Kaien Yang was awarded the $10,000 Marconi/Samueli Award for Innovation for his vision and promise as an innovator who, in the spirit of radio inventor Guglielmo Marconi, demonstrated...
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November 2016: Nysmith Debate Team Places 1st and 3rd
The Nysmith School Debate Club competed in the Metro Speech and Debate Association Emerson Preparatory School Public Forum Tournament! Thirty teams and seven different schools participated debating...
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December 2016: Debate Club Wins at the DCUDL Maya Angelou French Immersion...
This past weekend the Nysmith Debate Club participated in the Public Forum DCUDL Maya Angelou French Immersion School Tournament. Students debated the following topic: Resolved: The...
View ArticleNysmith Team Achieves Highest Honors in WordMasters Challenge
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 2017 A team representing Nysmith School achieved Highest Honors in the recent WordMasters Challenge™—a national vocabulary competition involving nearly 150,000 students...
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Nysmith Places 1st at the DC Urban Debate League Tournament!
Congratulations to the Nysmith teams who placed 1st in their divisions at the DC Urban Debate League Tournament at Holy Trinity School on Saturday, Feb. 4th. Alex Joel and Caroline Huber placed 1st in...
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Nysmith School MATHCOUNTS Team Advances to State Championships!
Congratulations to the Nysmith School MATHCOUNTS team, consisting of Kaien Yang, Whitman Ochiai, Anuraag Kaashyap, and Anand Advani for advancing to the State Championships in March! Whitman Ochiai...
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