Not even two months old, Madison Memorial High School’s new science bowl team is headed to Washington in April to represent the state in the National Science Bowl Championship.
The team of seniors Srikar Adibhatla, Sohil Shah, Thejas Wesley and William Xiang and sophomore Brian Luo won the state regional qualifier at the Milwaukee School of Engineering on Saturday.
Madison has sent a team to the national middle school National Science Bowl Championship for the past two years, but has never fielded a high school team since the fast-paced quiz competition began in 1991. No Wisconsin team has won the championship.
A second team from Memorial, with seniors David Ho, Kevin Cao and Trang Nguyen, junior Rutvi Shah and sophomore Newton Wolfe, placed third at the regional qualifier. Neither team had lost a match until they faced off against each other in the semifinals, Coach Sowmya Partha said.