Four Harrison High School Students to Compete in International GENIUS Olympiad

Four Harrison High School students qualified to compete in the International Genius Olympiad:  Sam Parsley, Sophie Wong, Atharv Gandhi, and Isabella Mariani. All four students are part of the high school’s Science Research Program. 

GENIUS Olympiad is an international high school project competition focusing on environmental issues. Students qualify for the annual competition by competing at local and regional fairs or by submitting a scholarly research paper.  Students from 74 countries submitted more than 3200 projects, and 892 projects were accepted, a 27% acceptance rate.

 

The GENIUS Olympiad, founded in 2011, is organized by Terra Science and Education and hosted by the Rochester Institute of Technology. The program fosters global awareness of environmental challenges and advances the understanding of sustainability through competition in a variety of disciplines: science, the arts, film, coding, robotics, speech, engineering, design, and business innovation. The program provides a platform for students to share ideas, build shared responsibility, and raise public awareness about critical environmental problems in the world.