Ann Arbor Academic Games traveled to Orlando, Florida for the Academic Games League of America’s National Tournament last month, and returned with many trophies.
Participants included 38 students from King Elementary, Clague Middle School, and Huron, Skyline, Pioneer and Community high schools. As a local non-profit, Ann Arbor Academic Games also welcomed to its teams two Greenhills students, and one previous Huron student who now attends University Hill Secondary in Vancouver.
Students form five-player teams and play games in elementary (6th grade and under), middle (8th grade and under), junior (10th grade and under) and senior (12th grade and under) divisions.
Ann Arbor Teams brought home National Championships in Equations (math), Linguishtik (grammar), On Sets (set theory), and Theme (history). They also competed in Presidents (history), Propaganda (language) and Current Events. For the first time, Ann Arbor teams in every division won the Sweepstakes Championship (best overall team) for getting the best placements in four games, including one each from multiple categories in math, english, and social studies.
In addition to being Senior Division Sweepstakes Champion, the entire “We Devour” team (David Lee, Alfredo Meza, Simon Shavit, Jennifer Tang, and Simon Shavit) along with Ryan Chen and Mason Holst from “We Stay Hungry” were honored as being in the top 10 individuals in their division.
Junior Division Sweepstakes team winner, “One Jennifer Short” included top 10 winners Rogan Geyer, Jayeun Lee, Jessica Wu and Andy Xu as well as Lucas Long, who was in the top 20.
High School Coach Nick Wang, a Huron High alumnus, won Outstanding Educator while seniors Tony Varkey and David Lee both won Outstanding Senior awards.
“Gouda Than You” from Clague was named the middle division Sweepstakes Champion, with teammates Angela Chen, Caleb Lee, Tarun Iyer, Thomas Wang, and Katherine Zhou being in the top 12 individuals in their division.
A huge round of applause went to King Elementary students Jaeyoung Lee, Priyam Chowdhury, Vihaan Sharma, Siddarth Nochur Sivaramakrishnan, and Kate Wang as their team “Iconic” won first place in Sweepstakes, beating older students to this prestigious title.
The top 10 individuals in the elementary division included King students Vihaan Sharma, Kate Wang, Priyam Chowdhury, and middle school students Arjun Iyer and Benjamin Wang from Clague Middle School and Varick Chen from Greenhills School.
Complete results are available here.
Congratulations to all of the Ann Arbor Academic Games students on their amazing performance in Orlando!
2023 Academic Games National Tournament Full Results for Ann Arbor participants:
Senior Division (12th grade and under)
We Devour
David Lee – Skyline
Jennifer Tang – Huron
Simon Shavit – Community
Anthony Varkey – Huron
Alfredo Meza – University Hill Secondary (Vancouver, BC), previous Huron student
We Stay Hungry
David Chen – Skyline
Ryan Chen – Pioneer
Bruno Garcia – Pioneer
Aakash Gopal – Huron
Mason Holst – Pioneer
Team awards:
We Devour
1st place – Sweepstakes (overall), Linguishtik, Equations, Theme
2nd place – OnSets
3rd place – Presidents
We Stay Hungry
2nd place Linguishtik
3rd place Sweepstakes (overall)
Honorable mention (4th place) OnSets, Equations, Propaganda
Individual awards:
David Chen – 3rd place Propaganda
Ryan Chen – 3rd place Sweepstakes & OnSets, Honorable mention Propaganda
David Lee – 3rd Ling, Honorable mention Theme, 8th Sweepstakes,
Mason Holst – 9th place Sweepstakes, Honorable mention Propaganda & Theme
Alfredo Meza – 1st Linguishtik, 2nd Equations, 5th Sweepstakes,
Simon Shavit – 1st place Equations, 10th place Sweepstakes
Tony Varkey – 1st Sweepstakes & Propaganda, 2nd place Linguishtik, Honorable Mention President & Theme, Undefeated Equations
Jennifer Tang – 4th Sweepstakes, Honorable mention Theme
Junior Division (10th grade and under):
One Jennifer Short
Rogan Geyer – Huron
Jayeun Lee – Huron
Lucas Long – Huron
Jessica Wu – Huron
Andy Xu – Huron
Jeffrey Wang – Skyline (played as an individual)
Team Awards:
One Jennifer Short
1st place – Sweepstakes (overall), OnSets, Theme
2nd place – Linguishtik, Propaganda
Individual awards:
Rogan Geyer – 3rd Theme, 10th place Sweepstakes
Jayeun Lee – 2nd Linguishtik, Honorable Mention Propaganda, 8th place Sweepstakes
Lucas Long – Honorable Mention Current Events
Jessica Wu – 1st place Linguishtik, 2nd place OnSets, 3rd place Propaganda, 6th place Sweepstakes
Andy Xu – 2nd place Theme, Undefeated Linguishtik, 4th place Sweepstakes,
Middle Division (8th grade and under):
Gouda Than You
Angela Chen – Clague
Tarun Iyer – Clague
Caleb Lee – Clague
Thomas Wang – Clague
Katherine Zhou – Clague
Yeet the Cheese
Ethan Chen – Clague
Izzy Choi – Clague
Chloe Kim – Clague
Natalie Lu – Clague
Joell Sathe – Clague
The Curd Nerds
Allen Bai – Clague
Gyurin Hwang – Clague
Amogh Velivela – Clague
Liya Zhang – Clague
Sophia Zheng – Clague
Team Awards:
Gouda than You
1st place – Sweepstakes (overall)
2nd place – Linguishtik, On-Sets
3rd Place – Presidents
Honorable Mention – Equations
Yeet the Cheese
Honorable Mention – Linguishtik
Individual Awards:
Angela Chen – 1st place Sweepstakes (overall), Honorable Mention Presidents, Undefeated Linguishtik, Undefeated On-Sets
Ethan Chen – Undefeated Equations
Tarun Iyer – 2nd place Linguishtik, 2nd Place On-Sets, 3rd place Sweepstakes
Chloe Kim – Honorable Mention Propaganda
Caleb Lee – Undefeated Equations, 8th place Sweepstakes
Thomas Wang – 1st Place Presidents, 2nd place Sweepstakes, Undefeated Linguishtik
Elementary Division (6th grade and under):
Nacho Average Team
Varick Chen – Greenhills
Andy He – Clague
Arjun Iyer – Clague
Nilshan Jayasundera – Greenhills
Benjamin Wang – Clague
Iconic
Priyam Chowdhury – King
Jaeyoung Lee – King
Vihaan Sharma – King
Siddharth Sivaramakrishnan – King
Kate Wang – King
Team Awards:
Iconic
1st place – Sweepstakes (overall), Linguishtik
2nd place – Presidents, On-Sets
3rd Place – Equations
Honorable Mention – Propaganda
Nacho Average Team
1st Place – Equations, On-Sets
3rd Place – Linguishtik, Sweepstakes (overall)
Honorable Mention – Presidents
Individual Awards:
Varick Chen – 4th place Sweepstakes, Honorable Mention Presidents, Undefeated Equations, Undefeated Linguishtik
Priyam Chowdhury – 8th place Sweepstakes, Undefeated Equations, Undefeated Linguishtik
Arjun Iyer – 5th place Sweepstakes, Undefeated Equations, Undefeated Linguishtik, Undefeated On-Sets
Nilshan Jayasundera – Honorable Mention Propaganda
Jaeyoung Lee – Undefeated Linguishtik
Vihaan Sharma – 2nd place Sweepstakes, Honorable Mention Presidents, Undefeated Equations
Siddharth Sivaramakrishnan – Undefeated Linguishtik
Benjamin Wang – Honorable Mention Presidents, 10th place Sweepstakes
Kate Wang – Honorable Mention Presidents, 6th place Sweepstakes, Undefeated Linguishtik
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