On Friday, three teams from Mount Albert Grammar School competed in the 2018 North Island Secondary Schools Science Bowl Tournament at Auckland Grammar School.
This was the first time MAGS participated in this event and some great results were obtained.
In the senior section, MAGS achieved an amazing second place, with the team being Miriam Leonhardt, Shalin Shah, Lance Martinez and Karen Geng (pictured above, left to right).
After a gruelling round robin phase, the senior team reached the semifinal where they beat AGS to reach the final against ACG. In the final, in a tense and nerve-wracking round made up of extremely challenging mathematics, chemistry and biology questions, the Senior team were edged by ACG College.
In the Junior section, MAGS had two teams: Junior Team 1 (pictured below) – Vaibhav Nayyar, Giles Paton Simpson, Alexander Pullen and Nikita Privalov; and Junior Team 2 – Rosie Henderson, Ayleigh Loomes, Ruby Maoate and Megan Williams.
Junior Team 1 reached the semifinals where they were beaten by the narrowest of margins by AGS. The second Junior team won many of the their round robin qualifying matches but missed out on a place in the semifinal.
Aase Diegel, HOF Science, said, “Both the finals and the semifinals were scintillating experiences and the atmosphere was at times charged with tension. Both were a showcase of the remarkable depth of scientific knowledge present and a genuine pleasure to witness.”
The Science Bowl Tournament seeks to provide an engaging event for some of the most intellectual secondary school students in the North Island to come together and compete against one another.
Ms Diegel said, “The students that attended represented MAGS admirably. The questions that these students were able to answer and their depth of knowledge about science and mathematics was absolutely astonishing and they certainly did the school proud.”
