Iona Xia

President

Iona Xia is a senior at Monta Vista High School and has participated in Science Olympiad for over six years. She has competed in a variety of events including Crime Busters, Experimental Design, Environmental Chemistry, Geologic Mapping, Sound of Music, and Write It, Do It, and won numerous medals at the regional, state, and national level including multiple State Champion titles and both an individual and team National Champion title. She is currently the VP of Internal Operations at Monta Vista’s Science Olympiad team and is a qualifier of the American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME).

Angela Zhang

President

Angela Zhang is a Senior at Monta Vista High School. For two years on the Kennedy Science Olympiad team, she has medaled in almost every single event she has participated in, including medals at top invitationals, regionals, states, and nationals for Anatomy & Physiology, Disease Detectives, Experimental Design, and Heredity. She has also achieved the Semifinalist status twice in the USA BioOlympiad competition, and continues to mentor incoming Kennedy Gold team members while being a member of Monta Vista Science Olympiad.

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Amol Rama

Curriculum Head

Amol Rama is a Senior at Monta Vista High School. He has participated in Science Olympiad over the past four years, making two national appearances and winning numerous medals in Earth Science, Physics, and Chemistry events. In the 2019-2020 season, he was the co-captain of the Science Olympiad team. In addition, he has qualified for the AIME multiple times, been awarded the AMC 10 Distinguished Honor Roll multiple times, and made USAJMO in 2019. Furthermore, he has been a teacher's assistant in mathematics for the last two years. In addition, he's help create several different websites, the best of which is https://www.nicecontest.xyz/

Joseph Lee

VP of Marketing and Business Development

Joseph Lee is a rising Senior at Monta Vista High School. He has won numerous Science Olympiad medals for biology, astronomy, and flight engineering events at the regional, state, and national levels since 6th grade, participating at National Competitions. He medalled in all of his events in the National Champion team, of which he was Co-Team Captain and Event Captain for Space, Biological Sciences, and Flight Engineering. He is also a mentor for the Kennedy Middle School Science Olympiad Gold Team and is the VP of Engineering in Monta Vista Science Olympiad.

Arthur Perng

Cybersecurity Team Chair

Arthur Perng is a Senior at MVHS who has participated in Science Olympiad and won national medals. In high school, he loves spending time mentoring junior Science Olympiad, studying cybersecurity, and bonding with others. He also enjoys doing CTF competitions with the cybersecurity club Fweefwop. Outside of cybersecurity, he likes competitive programming, math, biking, cooking and MTG.  

Eric Ju

Director of Operations

Eric is a Senior at Monta Vista High School. He has been a part of the Science Olympiad for 3 years and has participated in the national tournament twice, where he won awards for his events. He is also a key member of the cybersecurity club Fweefwop, where he focuses on cryptography. In the club, he enjoys participating in CTF competitions with his teammates. In his free time not in swim practice, he likes solving puzzles such as Redactle and Sudoku.​

Varun Kumaravelu 

Division Head: Earth Science

Varun Kumaravelu is a Biology Event Captain with the Monta Vista Science Olympiad team who has competed in Science Olympiad for five years, and was a member of the team that won the 2019 Division B National tournament. He has won innumerable medals in Paleontology, Herpetology, Astronomy, Genetics, and Ecology, including multiple at the Regional, State, and National level.

Andrew Zhou

Director of Business Development

Andrew Zhou is a junior at Monta Vista High School. As the Event Captain of Physical & Earth Sciences and Engineering, he earned 2 gold metals for Kennedy Science Olympiad at the 2021 National Tournament. He is also a 2-time AIME qualifier, qualifying in the 8th and 9th grades. He is an experienced and devoted tutor with experience in private competitive math tutoring.

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Ashish Kashyap

Director of Fundraising

Ashish Kashyap is a bright junior at Monta Vista High School. He earned medals at the Nationals in 2021 in all of his three events . As the event captain for Engineering, he has been a winner and proctor on several different build and engineering devices and won medals for his team in various Biology and Chemistry events over three years. He also started and leads the programming club at his troop.

Anish Bayyapu

Division Head: Chemistry

Anish Bayyapu is a junior at Monta Vista High School. Anish has participated in Science Olympiad for 4 years, and has been to Nationals 3 times. This year, as the Team Captain, he medaled in all 4 of his events, including one gold and one silver. He is also a 2 time AIME qualifier, qualifying in 2021 and 2020. He is also a member of Fweefwop, a cybersecurity club which won platinum in Cyber-Patriot XIII, and placed 94th in the National Cyber Scholarship, which awarded a finalist ranking. Anish has also been tutoring kids in computer science for the last year, and is a USACO silver.

Irene Tian

Associate Director

Irene Tian is a junior at Monta Vista High School. She earned medals in all of her events (Disease Detective, Heredity, Ornithology, and Fossils) at the 2021 Science Olympia National Tournament for Kennedy including 2 gold medals, as the Event Captain of Epidemiological, Life and Paleontological Sciences.

Ishanvi Kommula

Division Head: Biology

Ishanvi Kommula is a junior at Monta Vista High School. Ishanvi has participated in Science Olympiad for three years and medaled in all four events at the 2021 National Tournament as the Event Captain of Forensics and Paleontological Sciences, including one gold and one silver medal. Ishanvi also enjoys computer science and is a USACO Gold contestant.

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Pranav Annapillai

Biz Dev and Social Manager

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Michael Smith

Principal

Michael was the nationals Science Olympiad Team Captain and has competed in at Science Olympiad Nationals since 6th grade. Michael has medaled in Experimental Design, Bridge, Boomilever, Tower, Electric Wright Stuff, Elastic Launched Glider, Mission Possible, Ping Pong Parachute, Game On, and Meteorology at Nationals, State and Regional. Michael is passionate about Cybersecurity and computer systems and enjoys gardening, biking and the outdoors.

Justin Lo

Principal - International Relationships

Justin is a dual-enrolled high school student at Foothill College. As a tinkerer by heart, he has been building computers since he was 9. Justin enjoys being cost effective, and likes comparing components, scouting for deals on obscure models, and trading parts. His hobby is researching new topics of interest and formulating project ideas.

Aaron

Robotics Team Lead

Coming Soon!

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Allen

​Manager

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Alyssa

Curriculum: Biology

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Sunny

Manager

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Joanna 

Associate

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Daphne Guo

Curriculum: Meteorology

Daphne Guo is a student at Monta Vista High School. She participates in Science Bowl and Science Olympiad, and she was the Event Captain for Earth, Space and Physical Sciences of the Kennedy Science Olympiad National Champion Team, as well as being the Event Supervisor at several nationwide Science Olympiad invitationals. She has qualified for the AIME multiple times.

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