USAYPT HOLDS ANNUAL FEBRUARY TOURNAMENT
USAYPT Tournament Committee
Greg Jacobs, Bruce Oldaker,
Patti Oldaker, Hugh Haskell
2008 US Invitational Young Physicist Tournament Champions from the Brisbane Girls Grammar School
L to R: Kathryn Zealand, Team Captain, Sarah Thang, Samantha Luck, and their mascot "Shrodigger the Kangaroo" holding the Championship Trophy.
Ms. Cathy Keogh coached the Brisbane Girls Grammar Team.
The United States Association for Young Physicists Tournaments (USAYPT) held its annual US Invitational Young Physicists Tournament 8-9 February 2008 at the North Carolina School for Science and Mathematics, Durham, North Carolina.The USAYPT expanded its annual National Young Physicists Tournament for US high school teams to invited foreign high school teams renaming the Tournament the US Invitational. This year's teams were from the Brisbane Girls Grammar School, Brisbane, Australia; the North Carolina School for Science and Mathematics, Durham, North Carolina; Oak Ridge High School, Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Rye Country Day School Teams 1 and 2, Rye, New York; the Wildwood School, Los Angeles, California; and the Woodberry Forest School, Woodberry, Virginia.
2008 USAYPT Invitational
Young Physicists Tournament
Brisbane Girls Grammar School
Sarah Thang, Ms. Cathy Keogh Samantha Luck, "Schrodigger"
and Kathrn Zealand, Captain
North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics
Haoyang Ren, James Phillips, Captain, Ancheng Liu
Oak Ridge High School
Dr. Peggy Bertrand, Michael Chisholm, Drew Mullins,
Ben Wing, and Team Members:
Kurtis Meilink, Rowan Chakoumakos, Captain, Alborz Bejnood
Woodberry Forest School
Cameron Wilhoit, Robert Bauer, Captain, Chris McLamb
Rye Country Day School 1
Dr. David Hinman, Alex Brienin, Captain, Eugene Vinitsky, Mr. Stuart Close, and Scott Wieman
Rye Country Day School 2
Jon Madorsky, Dr. Bruce Oldaker, Josh Geller, Captain, David Fertig
Wildwood School
Caleb Shields, Teresa Xu, Captain, Ben Gross
