Roberto Clemente MS

2017 Mid Atlantic Regional Future City Engineering Competition

Clemente represented with two teams at the Mid Atlantic Regional Future City engineering competition on Saturday, January 21^st held at the Baltimore Museum of Industry.  Teams included public and private schools from Maryland, DC, and Virginia. 

Future City is a cross-curricular program that lets students in the 6th, 7th, and 8th grades do the things engineers do: identify problems, brainstorm ideas, design solutions, test and retest, build and then share the results.  For more information, you can check out their website at  www.futurecity.org. 

Congratulations to Orion Foo, Alex Tong, Daniel Choi, and Leo Bian for winning Best Presentation Award!

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2017 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards

Congratulations to Daniel Choi on his success with the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards this year!! MCPS has over 300 students recognized – what an amazing achievement!  See full list here.

9th Annual Greater Mid-Atlantic Scholastic Chess Championship

RCMS chess club teams competed in three categories at the 9th Annual Greater Mid-Atlantic Scholastic Chess Championship held over the weekend.  RCMS won team trophies in the following categories - Championship 1000 and above  -  1st place;   Under 1000  -  2nd Place;   Under 800 -  5th place.

Participating students were - Satvik Sai Lolla, Ishaan B Bhardvaj, Andrew Z Yuan, Thomas T Zhong, Benjamin E Nachod, Luke Griffith. Noah Alex Ferrara, Mihir Gupta, Cathy Boman, Brandon A Witten, Chad Alrawashdeh   and  Derik H Luc. 5 students also won individual trophies for their performance.

Championship K-8   (Team 1st Place)

Under 1000 K-12  (Team 2nd place)

Under 800 K-8  (Team 5th Place)

2017 Cargo Plane Challenge

Congratulations to Alex Tong, Katherine Tao, Sydney Ozbun, and Phillip Huang!

The RCMS Science team won first place at the 2017 Cargo Plane Challenge at the 2017 Maryland Engineering Challenge from the Baltimore Museum of Industry.  THE CHALLENGE- Students design and construct an electrically‐powered model aircraft to fly a tethered flight of at least one lap without cargo, followed by a second tethered flight of one lap carrying as much cargo as possible. Both laps will use power supplied by a power pole, limited by the maximum output of the transformer.   Their plane successfully flew a tethered lap around and pole, and then successfully flew 5.8 ounce of cargo around the pole completing at least one lap (it was several laps but one was all that was needed).

Clemente Science Team Students are AMAZING!!

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Chess Team 2017

Our 6th grade Chess Team won the 3rd place team trophy in the 2017 Mid-Atlantic Grade Championship, held in Baltimore on Jan 28th.

Congratulations Andrew Yuan, Brandon Witten, Luke Griffith, and Shubham Bhatnagar!!!

PLURAL + Awards

Congratulations to Kijani Derenoncourt and her media partners Kara Peeler and Sagun Shrestha.   Kijani accepted two awards for their school video Excluded from PLURAL +. 

They won the International Jury Award and the Peace in the Streets Award.

PLURAL+ Youth Video Festival is a joint initiative of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) that invites the world’s youth to submit original and creative videos focusing on the themes of migration, diversity and social inclusion. By supporting the distribution of youth-produced media, PLURAL+ recognizes youth as powerful agents of positive social change in a world often characterized by intolerance, and cultural and religious divisions.

Check it out at : http://pluralplus.unaoc.org/up-to-12-age-category/excluded/

Math Team 2016

The Clemente Math team had its first meet of the year this past weekend. Members of the team traveled to Meade Middle School in Anne Arundel County MD. Eight of our team members participated in a variety of tasks ranging from an individual written round, completing an Inventions Round where students were randomly partnered with other school's students and complete engineering design type problems, and then compete in a team round competition answering 10 questions in 20 minutes. In the individual awards Fang Du scored 1^st overall, Jerry Shen placed 3^rd, and Abrar Sheikh placed 6^th, Robert Bao placed 11^th, and Kevin Huang placed 18^th respectively out of over 180 students. Alex Wang, Justin I, and Max Chiu had strong showings as well. Jerry Shen also placed 1^st in the inventions round along with his teammates. This was our first competition out of 9 scheduled for this year. We are looking forward to a strong year

2016 Broadcom Masters

Congratulations to two amazing Clemente students!

Sonia Stan and Medha Sri Kotti , have won a place as a semifinalists in the 2016 Broadcom MASTERS^®, a program of Society for Science & the Public. This honor places them among the top 300 middle school science and engineering projects in the United States from over 6,000 nominees. This achievement deserves to be celebrated! 

To see a complete list of the 2016 Broadcom MASTERS semifinalists, please visit https://student.societyforscience.org/broadcom-masters-2016-semifinalists. 

The next step in the Broadcom MASTERS takes place on September 20, 2016 when 30 finalists will be selected from among the 300 semifinalists. Finalists and one parent or guardian will receive an all-expense paid trip to Washington, DC to attend the Broadcom MASTERS Finals Week competition from October 27 to November 2, 2016. Finalists will present their research and compete in hands-on challenges for top prizes, including funds to attend a STEM summer camp, iPads, and the Samueli Prize of $25,000. 

Again, congratulations to Sonia and Medha for their selection as a 2016 Broadcom MASTERS semifinalists. Thank you to everyone who helps students explore their potential!

Maryland Girls Scholastic Chess Championship 2016

Cathy Boman and Katharin Kiryutin from Roberto Clemente MS competed in the MD Girls Scholastic Chess Championship 2016, and won the team trophy for 2nd place in U1000 section. The tournament was held on May 7th, 2016 in Rockville, MD. Cathy Boman also got 2nd place individually in the U1000 section. 

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28th Annual MCCPTA Special Education Recognition Ceremony

Our very own Ms. Susan Sprecher received an award for being an Outstanding Educator! Thank you Ms. Sprecher for all your dedication!

Maryland Engineering Challenge Competition: 2016 Straw Bridge Challenge

This Saturday, April 25, 2016, Clemente Middle Science Team won 1st place at the Maryland Engineering Challenge Competition: 2016 Straw Bridge Challenge   

THE CHALLENGE  - Design and construct a model road bridge made exclusively from soda straws, hotmelt glue, and plastic tabs.  The competition included a written report and drawings, an oral presentation, and a  performance demonstration.   

This is the first time Clemente has ever won this competition and we should all be so proud of the following students:   

Team:  Miraculous Duo 

Anna Anand

Jane Liu

Way to go RCMS!!!!

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Maryland Science Olympiad State Finals

Congratulations go out the RCMS Science Team’s final competition at Johns Hopkins University this weekend.  The State Finals for the Maryland Science Olympiad was held all day Saturday, April 23^rd  and RCMS won awards in 9 different science competition events!   

The Maryland Science Olympiad is a "hands-on" K-12 science program including rigorous academic interscholastic tournaments. Scientists and engineers from Maryland corporations, organizations, and universities collaborate with K-12 science teachers to oversee the 46 teamwork oriented tournament events. Tournament events are well-balanced between life science, earth&space science, chemistry, physics, technology, and inquiry. Competitive opportunities include Invitational, Regional, and State tournaments.  The Maryland Science Olympiad is managed through the partnership of Maryland science and technology organizations, the Maryland State Department of Education, and by Maryland Science Olympiad, Inc., a nonprofit organization.   

• Tejas Guha – 1^st place and 2^nd place 
• Celina Wu – 1^st Place and 2^nd place 
• Jerry Shen – 2^nd place 
• Brian Aniya – 2^nd place and 4^th place 
• Helen Gu – 3^rd place 
• Sanjit Thangarasu – 3^rd place and 4^th place 
• Daria Chen – 3^rd place and another 3^rd place 
• Michael Sun – 3^rd place 
• Sadhana Lolla – 3^rd place and 4^th place 
• Adhvayith Sriram – 4^th place 
• Arman Bolouri – 4^th place 
• Dinal Gunaratne – 4^th place 
• Sresth Viswanathan – 4^th place 

 

Maryland Engineering Challenge Competition: 2016 Hover Craft Challenge

This Saturday 4/9/16, Clemente Middle Science Team won 1^st place at the Maryland Engineering Challenge Competition: 2016 Hover Craft Challenge

THE CHALLENGE  - Design and construct a Hovercraft vehicle (a land-and-water transportation vehicle that Maryland could use for a ferry service across the Chesapeake Bay) from a kit to be the fastest vehicle in a race across a 20-foot stretch of floor.  

This is the first time Clemente has ever won this competition and we should all be so proud of the following students:

Team:  Maryland Seahawks

• Om Desai
•  Arun Ghosh
• Johann Kuruvilla

Way to go RCMS!!!!

Montgomery Area Science Fair

This County Area Science Fair is open to ALL in public, private, and home-schooled students, grades 6 through 12.  Any student who lives in Montgomery County or who attends school in Montgomery County may enter the fair.

Clemente Middle School was proudly represented by almost 100 students at the Montgomery Area Science Fair on Saturday, March 12th, 2016.   We are proud to announce that Clemente won over 100 awards which is more than any other school, public or private.  The science department and science teachers are so very proud of each and every competitor.

2016 Montgomery Area Science Fair

Category Winners - Middle School

First Prizes: $100 and Certificate

Second Prizes: $50 and Certificate

Third Prizes: $25 and Certificate

Behavioral Sciences

Honorable Mention

Justin Pham

Biology

Honorable Mention

Saanika Mahashetty

Jason Wu

Dan Xu

Akshaj Gaur

3rd Place

Sohan Ganatra

2nd Place

Zach Teselko

Garrett Gularson

Isaac Wang

Joseph Jubilee

1st Place

Ajeetha Arudchandran

Michael Gan

Chemistry

Honorable Mention

Eric Zhang

Jasmine Pham

Arjun Rakheja

Jacqueline Davila

3rd Place

Sanjit Thangarasu

Apurva Choudhary

Sareet Nayak

2nd Place

Efe Eroz

Frank Horrigan

1st Place

Carl Stahlberg

Kush Savsani

Serena Choy

Namya Nanda

Engineering

Honorable Mention

Tony Wu

Ian Yu RCM

Preethi Prakash

3rd Place

Varun Gangadharan

Elias Izmirlian

Ronoy Sarkar

Visesh Uppoor

Noah Ferrara

2nd Place

Dev Bhardwaj

Vinamra Adikehithilu

1st Place

Danesh Sivakumar

Pranav Hegde

Brian Aniya

Physics

Honorable Mention

Billy Zeng

Celina Wu

Joy Anyanwu

Nicholas 'Nick' Asante

Hunter Bergstrom

Dev Desai

Jason Liu

3rd Place

Kasra Torshizi

Lucas Gonzalez-Rey

Pranav Tippa

2nd Place

Matthew Wong

Arman Bolouri

1st Place

Medha Kotti

Sonia Stan

Community Awards

Presented by Community Organizations in Support of Young Scientists and Engineers

Aerospace Corporation: The Robert H. Herndon Award to Encourage Minority Students to Pursue Careers in Science and Engineering

Honorable Mention: Certificate-

Dev Bhardwaj

Tom Stoughton

Adhvayith Sriram

American Meteorological Society (AMS)-DC Chapter For Outstanding Achievement in an Atmospheric or Earth Science

Rohan Aluka

Brian Aniya

Medha Kotti

American Society of Mechanical Engineers Excellence in Science and Engineering

Honorable Mention: certificate

Billy Zeng Roberto Clemente Middle School

Association for Women Geoscientists For a Project by a female Student for High Standards of Innovation and Excellence in the Geosciences

Junior: Certificate of Excellence

Medha Kotti

Broadcom MASTERS - For middle school projects demonstrating excellence in Math, Applied Science, Technology, and Engineering

Certificate, chance to win a trip in October 2016 and up to $25,000

Michael Gan

Ajeetha Arudchandran

Carl Stahlberg

Kush Savsani

Serena Choy

Namya Nanda

Danesh Sivakumar

Pranav Hegde

Brian Aniya

Medha Kotti

Sonia Stan

Clean Air Partners - Best project that addresses sources and/ or solutions to air pollution and/or climate change

Junior: Certificate, $50 Award

Efe Eroz

Frank Horrigan

DC Water - For Innovation in Water/Wastewater Treatment

3rd Place

Christine Gong

Lydia Ruan

Friends of Agricultural Research--Beltsville (FAR-B)-in Chemistry, Biology, Computer Science, and Microbiology/Health For Excellent Junior Projects

3rd Place: $20 gift certificate

Akshaj Gaur

Teryn Mitchell

2nd Place: $30 gift certificate

Sonia Stan

Ajeetha Arudchandran

1st Place: $50 gift certificate

Namya Nanda

Nicholas 'Nick' Asante

National Capital Astronomers For Projects Demonstrating Excellence in Astronomy - One year membership in NCA; One year subscription to Sky and Telescope magazine; Invitation to dinner to present project at Annual Meeting; 1 year of membership in The Astronomical League, including The Reflector magazine

Joy Anyanwu

Office of Naval Research For Achievement in Science or Technology- Junior Division prizes: Letter of Congratulations, ONR Medallion, Naval Science Award Certificate

Roma Dhingra

Sabrina Su

Ronoy Sarkar

Ian Yu

Optical Society of America, National Capital Section/IEEE Photo For Achievement in Optics and Photonics

Junior Division: Certificate

Nicholas 'Nick' Asante

Sareet Nayak

Ricoh Sustainable Development Award For Outstanding Projects Addressing the Potential for Increasing Our Ability to Grow Environmentally Friendly and Socially Responsible Businesses

Junior: Certificate

Jasmine Pham

Rockville Science Center For Middle School Projects Demonstrating Excellence in the Communication of Science

Biology

Honorable Mention  

Akshaj Gaur

2nd Place  

Ajeetha Arudchandran

1st Place

Saanika Mahashetty

Chemistry

3rd Place

Serena Choy

Engineering

Honorable Mention  

Varun Gangadharan

Elias Izmirlian

2nd Place

Brian Aniya

1st Place  

Vinamra Adikehithilu

Physics

1st Place

Medha Kotti

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission For Outstanding Projects in Nuclear Science or Engineering

JUNIORS

3rd Place: Invitation to Ceremony

Preethi Prakash

1st Place: Invitation to Ceremony

Sanjit Thangarasu

U.S. Public Health Service - Commissioned Officers Association For Outstanding Projects in Health-related Research

Jason Hu

Ian Yu

Sabrina Su

Nathan Tang

Brian Xiang

Ronoy Sarkar

Michael Pan

Justin Pham

Shreya Gunda

Washington Statistical Society For use of statistics in planning or interpreting results produced by a science fair project

2nd Place: Certificate inside book

Shabarish Nair  

Destination Imagination’s West Central Regional Tournament

On Saturday, Feb. 27th, three teams with members from Clemente competed at Destination Imagination’s West Central Regional Tournament. With the Mustaschio Pistachios, The Syndicate, and Pandemonium all competing in the same challenge, Clemente students did amazingly well. The Syndicate took 4th place, The Mustachio Pistachios earned second place and Pandemonium came in 1st and will be competing in the Destination Imagination Maryland State Tournament at the University of Maryland on April 9.

Awesome job everyone!!!

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Maryland Science Olympiad Competition Results!

The Clemente Science Team had a great event on Saturday, February 20th, 2016.

74 students participated in the Maryland Science Olympiad Competition last weekend at the University of Maryland at College Park. The Olympiad consisted of 24 different events with 37 teams from public, private, and home schools all around central Maryland competing against one another.   Out of 74 students, 61 students received a top 5 award for one or more of their events in which they competed.    

The Maryland Science Olympiad is a "hands-on" K-12 science program including rigorous academic interscholastic tournaments. Scientists and engineers from Maryland corporations, organizations, and universities collaborate with K-12 science teachers to oversee the 24 teamwork oriented tournament events.   Tournament events are well-balanced between life science, earth & space science, chemistry, physics, technology, and inquiry. Competitive opportunities include Invitational, Regional, and State tournaments.

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Verizon App Design Challenge

Please join us in congratulating one of our sixth grade humanities students! She is a member of a six person team with students from Rocky Hill MS and Parkland MS who entered the Verizon App Design Challenge. 

Their team designed an app called AutBuddy, inspired by the autistic sister of one of the team members.  The app forges clear lines of communication for students, families, and teachers for students who struggle to communicate clearly. 

The most exciting news is that her team are national winners!

Each member wins the following:

• A $15,000 prize to assist them in building their mobile app from their winning design, to enhance STEM education at their school or sponsoring organization, and to cover the travel costs of the adult advisor's attendance at the National TSA Conference in Nashville, Tennessee in June, 2016, if they plan to accompany the winning team. 
• “Best in Nation” certificates for each member.
• In-person and virtual training and support from Verizon Foundation partners to assist  the team in building and publishing their winning mobile app.
• An android tablet for each student and adult advisor from the eight (8) Best in Nation team winners.
• The opportunity for each Best in Nation team that develops and publishes their app by June 1, 2016, to present their app at the 2016 National Technology Student Association Conference in Nashville, Tennessee. Travel, two night’s lodging, and registration fees for eligible Best in Nation winning team members and a parent/adult guardian will be covered as part of their contest award.

Mid Atlantic Regional Future City Engineering Competition

Clemente took 1st place at the Mid Atlantic Regional Future City engineering competition on Sunday, January 30th held at the Baltimore Museum of Industry.  Teams included public and private schools from Maryland, DC, and Virginia. Pictures are from the competition.   

Future City is a cross-curricular program that lets students in the 6th, 7th, and 8th grades do the things engineers do: identify problems, brainstorm ideas, design solutions, test and retest, build and then share the results.  For more information, you can check out their website at  www.futurecity.org. 

Congratulations to Christine Zhou, Christine Gong, and Lydia Ruan. These amazing students will be moving on to the national competition in DC on February 15th! They will compete against teams from all around the country, including teams from China and Egypt! 

Teams competing at National Finals have the opportunity to win the prizes of:

1st place - Trip to Space Camp and $7500 for the school's STEM programs

2nd place - $5000

3rd place - $2000

4th place - $750

5th place - $750

The competition will be at the Capital Hilton on 16th St.

Public Viewing of Models will be 2/14/16 from 6:00pm-7:00pm and is Open to All

The Preliminary Judging will be 2/15/16 from 8:30am-2:00pm and Family and Friends may watch their team's presentation

The Awards Ceremony will be 2/16/16 from 8:15-12:30 and is Open to All

Join us if you can to celebrate Christine Zhou, Christine Gong, and Lydia Ruan!  Their talents and hard work are to be celebrated!

GO CLEMENTE PRIDE!

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2016 MCA Mid-Atlantic Grade Chess Championships Results 

Nine RCMS students participated in the tournament. The 6^th grade won the 2^nd place team trophy! 

• Satvik Sai Lolla (6^th grade) – 1^stplace individual trophy   
• Benjamin Nachod (6^th grade) – 7^thplace individual trophy   
• Ishaan Bhardvaj 6^th grade)  
• Noah Ferrara (6^th grade)  
• Chad Alrawashdeh (6^th grade)  
• Ishaan Antani (6^th grade)  
• Michael Edwards (7^th grade)  
• Cathy Boman (7^th grade)  
• Apurva Chaudhary (7^th grade) 

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Final Frontiers Competition

10 students proudly represented Clemente Middle at the science and engineering competition, Final Frontiers held at Wootton High School on Saturday, November 14^th, 2015.

The annual Final Frontiers competition, sponsored by the Maryland Space Business Roundtable and the Maryland Space Grant Consortium, took place this past November. Final Frontiers features a series of STEM (Science, technology, engineering, math) contests designed to challenge and inspire students to pursue science-related careers; the program is open to elementary, middle, and high school students. Division lines occur between grades 5-7 and 8-12. Public and private school students of Prince Georges and Montgomery County were invited to participate.  Composed of five events– Aero Car, Shuttle Arm, Lunar Bridge, Newton’s Nightmare, Golf Ball Barrage, and Mystery Event– Final Frontiers presents interactive opportunities for students to show case their strengths as engineers. Although all events pertained to physics, each component required knowledge about specific branches of the subject.

• Adhvayith Sriram 8 gd
• Daria Chen 8 gd
• Dev Bhardwaj 8 gd
• Tom Stoughton 8 gd
• Sonia Stan 7 gd
• Roma Dhingra 7 gd
• Matthew Owusu 6 gd
• Daniel Choi 6 gd
• Ben Nachad 6 gd
• Omar Kahn 6 gd

Omar took 1st place in SHUTTLE ARM engineering competition

Sonia, Roma, and Ben took 1st place in NEWTON'S NIGHTMARE physics competition

Adhvayith, Daria, Dev, and Tom took 2nd place in MYSTERY EVENT competition.

 

Clemente is proud of everyone!

 

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