On Thursday, Feb. 9, IC Catholic Prep (ICCP) returned to compete in the Academic Challenge created and sponsored by the World Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE) program. In the competition, held at Fenwick High School, the 14-member ICCP team finished third in the 700 Division, just short of qualifying as a team for the Sectional competition in March as only the top two teams advance. Due to increased enrollment at the school, the team moved up from the 300 division where they competed in 2016.
In addition to the 14-member team, ICCP had five “At Large” entries. These students competed as individuals, however, their scores were not included in the overall team score. They are eligible to advance to the next round of competition if their individual scores rank high enough.
ICCP also sent five junior varsity participants. With the sole purpose of exposing these sophomore students to the WYSE competition, they are not eligible to advance regardless of their individual score.
Each team creates sets of tests that increase in level of difficulty in a progression from regional, to sectional, to state final competitions.
Individual scoring winners for ICCP included Josh De La Cruz (‘18) who earned a first place in Biology, Demitra Del Fiacco (‘17) who earned a third place in Engineering Graphics, Alec Vasquez (‘18) who earned a third place in Biology, and Mark Zhao (‘18) who earned a second place in Chemistry and a third place in Math. Both De La Cruz and Zhao will advance to the North Central College Sectional on March 16, 2017, to compete as individuals.
Remaining team members were Quinn Bigane (‘18), Jacob DeWitte (’18), Molly Fahey (’17), Kaitlyn Grady (‘17), Peter Jordan (‘18), Jimmy Kenneally (‘17), Deirdre Lee (‘17), Matt Sutton (‘17), Robert Vitek (‘17), Sabrina Vorne (‘17), and Molly Zhang (’18). The “At Large” participants included Victor Cadaoas (’18), Demitra Del Fiacco (’17), Liz Maloney (’17), Dan McCann (’18), and Tim McCann (’18). And finally, the Junior Varsity participants included Steven Gong (’19), Amber Lewis (’19), Suzy Maloney (’19), Natalie Murillo (’19), and Harry Zhang (’19).
