Last weekend, seniors Vivek Bharadwaj, Elina Sendonaris and Jessica Zhu, and junior Manan Shah competed in the US Invitational Young Physicists Tournament in Lynchburg, Va., where they finished as finalists. Harker won the tournament last year, so was the team to beat this year. The 2016 team was among 11 that participated in the tournament, which was held in a round-robin format in which one team, acting as the reporter, displayed a solution to a physics problem that the opposing team, known as the opponent, then investigated by discussing the strong and weak points of the solution. Naman Jindal, Alice Wu and Tong Wu, all grade 12 and Neelesh Ramachandran, grade 10, assisted the competitors.