Garden City High School students succeed at 2025 NYS Science Olympiad Nassau East Regional competition
Garden City High School’s Garden City Team A placed 13th out of 43 teams at the 2025 NYS Science Olympiad Nassau East Regional competition. This year, the group welcomed many new members while returning students worked hard to improve their event scores, and the school competed with three teams for the first time.
In addition to placing 13th overall, students earned medals in 10 different events across multiple disciplines. Congratulations to the following:
Sarah Phinney and Sara Shamail: 5th place, Chemistry Lab
Jeffrey Li and Claire Wu: 5th place, Dynamic Planet
Hunter Maguire and Annika Margolies: 6th place, Ecology
Minyi Huang and Letao Tao: 7th place, Entomology
Kaitlyn McDonald and Ashley Wang: 8th place, Disease Detectives
Jeffrey Li and Hunter Maguire: 8th place, Geologic Mapping
Sarah Phinney and Sara Shamail: 10th place, Code Busters
Chloe Lin and Tiffany Zhang: 10th place, Experimental Design
Amy Xiao and Claire Wu: 10th place, Microbe Mission
Jeffrey Li and Sara Shamail: 10th place, Helicopter
Congratulations to the Science Olympiad students and co-advisers Tori Flaherty and Charles Hager on this achievement. The next regional competition will be held in February 2026, bringing another exciting opportunity for students to showcase their skills, compete against top teams and continue their passion for science.
