Author: Alex Nysmith
June 2021: Eighth Grader Wins Prestigious Boston Globe Grand Prize
We are proud to announce that our recent Nysmith graduate, Arielle Kouyoumdjian, has won the prestigious Boston Globe Young Reporters Competition’s Grand Prize. Her submission, a podcast entitled “Is This […]
June 2021: Rising 8th Grader Wins National eCYBERMISSION Competition
Rising Nysmith 8th grader Varsha Gunda, in partnership with CQuestrator partner Veda Murthy, last week won the 19th Annual worldwide eCYBERMISSION competition by identifying the problem of increasing carbon emissions […]
June 2021: Nysmith 6th Graders Secure 4th Place Finish at World Robotics Competition
Nysmith sixth graders Giovanni Eastman, Arjun Nayyar, and Max Ritter competed in the VEX Robotics Live Remote World Championship, along with over 1,600 other teams from 30 countries across the […]
Feb. 2016: “How a Small School for Gifted Kids in the D.C. Exurbs Gets Big Results”
By Glen Finland February 25, 2016 Eighth-graders, from right, Caroline Huber, Lottie Dubert, Jessica Alewine and Neha Bhat work on building a polynomial roller coaster with graham crackers, marshmallows […]