During the first weekend of February, the Rye Country Day Physics team participated in the 2012 Invitational Young Physicists Tournament in Oakridge, Tennessee. The tournament consisted of a series of “physics fights”, in which each team presented detailed, theoretical, and experimental solutions to three problems and debated presenters from other teams on the problems. Competing teams came from California, Virginia, Maryland, Tennessee, and China.
During the first weekend of February, the Rye Country Day Physics team participated in the 2012 Invitational Young Physicists Tournament in Oakridge, Tennessee. The tournament consisted of a series of “physics fights”, in which each team presented detailed, theoretical, and experimental solutions to three problems and debated presenters from other teams on the problems. Competing teams came from California, Virginia, Maryland, Tennessee, and China.
Rye Country Day ended the tournament in first place, defeating Woodberry Forest School of Virginia in the final. The RCDS team consisted of seniors Andrew Mollerus (Captain), Sarah Strong, Michael Thomas, Dan Alderson-Smith, Katherine Dean, and juniors Wenchen Huang and John Rigby.
