On Feb. 11, Harker’s Science Bowl team won the regional competition held at the Stanford Linear Accelerator’s National Accelerator Laboratory. Senior Venkat Sankar and juniors Rajiv Movva, Shaya Zarkesh, Swapnil Garg and Derek Yen will move on to the national competition held in Washington, D.C. from April 27 – May 1. Yen filled in for Arjun Subramaniam, grade 12, who could not compete due to a familial obligation. Per the rules of the National Science Bowl, Yen will be part of the team that competes at nationals.
Held by the US Department of Energy since 1991, the National Science Bowl has teams of students compete against one another in a question-and-answer format similar to television game shows. Questions deal with a variety of topics such as biology, physics and math.