Pioneer Science Olympiad
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Team history

Alumni

Past Pioneer Science Olympiad participants and the next schools and paths they shared publicly.

Since 1987

The team is bigger than one season.

Our past participants in Pioneer Science Olympiad have shaped the team for future seasons. We wish them luck on their future endeavors and thank them for their dedication to the team.

This page preserves the public alumni list from the previous website in a cleaner format for future updates.

Class of

2026

  • Radhika Bhide: Michigan '30
  • Hyunsung Woo: Harvard '30
  • Audrey Yu: Michigan '30
  • Theo Sacks-Thomas: UChicago '30
  • Aaron Kou: Michigan '30
  • Michael Wu: Michigan '30

Class of

2025

  • Rex Bajcz: Michigan State '29
  • Amy Liu: Michigan '29

Class of

2024

  • Ryan Chen: Michigan '27
  • Niko Hanson: Michigan '28
  • Justin Hu: Michigan '28
  • Jessica Jia: Michigan '28
  • Kei Murakami
  • Wei Wei Poortinga: WCC '26, Michigan '28
  • Sophia Wang: Michigan '28
  • Alain Zhou: Michigan '28

Class of

2023

  • Max Janevic: Michigan '27
  • Michelle Mobius: Cornell '27
  • Maya Mustata: UChicago '27
  • Caleb Ng: Michigan '27
  • Ire Odetola: Michigan State '27
  • Avi Patel: Michigan '27
  • Lowen Walter: Michigan '27
  • Ryan Wang: Michigan '27
  • Bavani Vijay: Michigan '27
  • Sakthi Vijay: Michigan '27

Class of

2022

  • Schuyler Byrn: Michigan '26
  • Elaine Cui: Michigan '26
  • Aditi Ganesan: Michigan '26
  • Anna Kaganov: MIT '26
  • Tushaar Kapoor: Michigan '26
  • Shuyi Xu: Michigan '26
  • Lin Yang: Michigan '26

Class of

2021

  • Arnav Brahmasandra: UChicago '25
  • Sriram Garapati: Michigan '25
  • Yongwen Zheng: Michigan '25
  • Jennifer Meng: Michigan '25
  • Ania Dudek: UC San Diego '25
  • Anna Klinger: Michigan '25

Class of

2020

  • Jack Bajcz: Michigan State '24
  • Zofia Dudek: Stanford '24
  • Sun-Su Liles
  • Ariel Mobius: MIT '24
  • Owen Rennich: Michigan '24
  • Siri Vangavolu: Michigan State '23
  • Ashish Venumuddula: USNA '24
  • Manish Venumuddula: Michigan '24
  • Ella Zhang: Michigan '24

Class of

2019

  • Polina Chuikov: Michigan '23
  • Abby Ng: Michigan '23
  • Sampoorna Ravikanth: Michigan '23
  • EmJ Rennich: Michigan '23, National Merit Finalist, Stanford '28
  • Ami Suresh: Michigan '23

Class of

2018

  • Vinay Yarlagadda: Michigan '22
  • Will Meng: Michigan '22
  • Annie Li: Michigan '22
  • Siwei Sun: Michigan '22

Class of

2017

  • Sean Higgins: Michigan '21

Class of

2016

  • Nathan Ng: Michigan '20
  • Eric Shen: Michigan '20
  • Isabella Comai: Michigan '20
  • John Nicklas: Brown '20
  • Chris Chen: Michigan State '20

Class of

2015

  • Lisa Qian: Yale '19, National AP Scholar, National Merit Scholar
  • Alex Maynard: Michigan '19
  • Siddharth Madapoosi: Michigan '19
  • Jerry Chen: New York University '19
  • Anthony Huffman: Detroit Mercy '19, Michigan for graduate school
  • Hirva Joshi: Youngstown State '21 (MD program)
  • Xuerui Fa: National Merit Semifinalist
  • Betty Hu: Columbia '19, National Merit Semifinalist
  • Michael Lee: Calvin College '19, National Merit Semifinalist
  • Nicholas Liu: Columbia '19, National Merit Semifinalist
  • Emily Newman: Carnegie Mellon '19, National Merit Semifinalist
  • Daphne Yang: UPenn '19, National Merit Semifinalist
  • Sarah Adams: Michigan '19

Class of

2014

  • Irina Chen: Wellesley '18
  • Johnny Fan: Michigan '18, National Merit Finalist
  • Nan Hu: Dartmouth '18, National Merit Finalist
  • Dana Shin: Michigan '18
  • Chenxi Sun: Carleton '18
  • Kevin Tian: Northwestern '18
  • Will Yang: Michigan '18

Class of

2013

  • Danny Luan: Michigan '17, National Merit Finalist
  • Jenny Nathans: Yale '17
  • Daniel Li: Princeton '17, National Merit Finalist
  • Daniel Rothchild: Harvard '17, Presidential Scholar

Class of

2012

  • Julia Chen: UPenn '16
  • Angel Li: ISEF Finalist, Michigan '16
  • Kathy Liu: Michigan '16
  • Aoxue Tang: Stanford '16

Class of

2011

  • Dan Jiang: Northwestern '15
  • Jenny Shen: McGill '15, Columbia for graduate school

Class of

2010

  • Elizabeth Qian: MIT '14, Fulbright Award, MIT for graduate school