Two Harker teams claimed top spots in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Regional High School Science Bowl, held Feb. 6. Team One – made up of juniors David Dai, Harsh Deep, Rishab Parthasarathy and William Zhao, and sophomore Jeremy Ko – placed second overall, and Team Two – seniors Michael Eng and Russell Yang, sophomore Rohan Bhowmik, and freshmen Gautam Bhooma and Nicholas Wei – placed in the top eight, the only second team to get that far in the tournament. 

This competition, usually held at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, took place virtually this year. Each team was placed in a Zoom room and tasked with answering 18 questions, with each team playing three rounds at the start and the top 24 teams advancing to the elimination rounds.