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US brings home medals at the 55th International Chemistry Olympiad

US wins 1 gold and 3 silver medals in 54th International Chemistry Olympiad

Team USA Wins Two Gold and Two Silver Medals at 53rd IChO!

2020 Team USA wins four gold medals at the 52nd International Chemistry Olympiad

2020 Team USA for the International Chemistry Olympiad Selected

2019 U.S. team chosen for the 51st International Chemistry Olympiad

2018 U.S. team won 4 golds at the International Chemistry Olympiad

INTERNATIONAL CHEMISTRY OLYMPIAD (IChO) RESULTS

  • 2024: Alice Liu, Anantshri Asthana, Brandon Ling, Kiran Desai-Kinvig, Yunyi Ling - Gold medal (2), Silver medal (2), and Bronze medal (1) at the 56th IChO, at Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

  • 2023: Anurag Sodhi and Phoenix Wu, Mingwen Duan and Alice Liu - Gold medal (2) and Silver medal (2) at the 55th IChO, Zurich, Switzerland

  • 2022: Nathan Ouyang, Jack Liu, and Phoenix Wu - Gold medal (1) and Silver medals (2) at the 54rd IChO, Tianjin, China (Virtual)

  • 2021: Yitian Zhu and Nikhil Seshadri - Gold medal (1) and Silver medal (1) at the 53rd IChO, Osaka, Japan (Virtual)

  • 2020: Alec Zhu and Anu Chemparathy - Gold medal at the 52th IChO, Istanbul, Turkey (Virtual)

  • 2018: Andrew Wu - Gold medal at the 50th IChO, Bratislava, Slovakia and Prague, Czech Republic

  • 2017: Brendan Yap - Gold medal at the 49th IChO, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand

  • 2013: David Liang - Gold medal at the 45th IChO, Moscow, Russia

  • 2009: Nathan Benjamin - Silver medal at the 41st IChO, Cambridge, England

US NATIONAL CHEMISTRY OLYMPIAD (USNCO) RESULTS

  • 111 students placed in the top 20 in the nation and attended the study camp

    • 2024 (15): Aaron Wang, Adam Madni, Albert Tang, Alice Liu, Anantshri Asthana, Annie Xu, Aryan Morasa, Eric Duan, Jimmy Jiang, Johnny Mortha, Lawrence Ma, Max Zhou, Samuel Xu, Yunyi Ling, Yuqing Liu

    • 2023 (15): Aaron Wang, Albert Tang, Alice Liu, Anantshri Asthana, Annie Xu, Anurag Sodhi, Aryan Morasa, Brian Li, Canaan He, James Jiang, Luke Chen, ,Mingwen Duan, Nipun Dour, Phoenix Wu, Yunyi Ling

    • 2022 (16): Alan Song, Alber Tang, Alice (Yue) Liu, Anantshri Asthana, Anurag Sodhi, Brian Li, Caleb Zhao, Canaan He, Jack Liu, Jiaxu Liu, Luke Chen, Mingwen Duan, Nathan Ouyang, Neil Chowdhury, Nipun Dour, Phoenix Wu

    • 2021 (11): Alex Wang, Cannan He, Frank Lee, Jack Liu, June Yin, Mingwen Duan, Nathan Ouyang, Neil Chowdhury, Nikhil Seshadri, Sunwoo Lee, Yitian Zhu

    • 2020 (12): Alec Zhu, Anu Chemparathy, Michael Han, Kaien Yang, Nick Tsao, Nick Ouyang, Sachin Thaker, Ridings Bald, Yitian Zhu, Robbie Ge, Iris Yan, Yannik Singh

    • 2019 (10): Alec Zhu, Allen Ding, Andrew Feng, Anu Chemparathy, Iris Yan, Jenny Cai, Michael Han, Nicolas Tsao, Ridings Bald, Yannik Singh

    • 2018 (5): Allen Ding, Matthew Wang, Jenny Cai, Andrew Wu, Iris Yan

    • 2017 (5): Andrew Wu, Brendan Yap, Allen Zhao, Allen Zhang, Kevin Liu* (declined Chemistry Camp invitation due to conflict with Math Olympiad Camp.)

    • 2016 (3): Miles Dai, Brendan Yap, Allen Zhang

    • 2015 (1): Miles Dai

    • 2014 (2): Adit Chandra, Willie Zhu

    • 2013 (1): David Liang

    • 2012 (1): David Liang

    • 2011 (1): Rebecca Chen

    • 2010 (1): Lee-Wei Kao

    • 2009 (1): Nathan Benjamin

    • 2008 (1) : Nathan Benjamin

  • 194 students placed in the top 50 in the nation (High Honors)

    • 2024 (33)

      Anantshiri A., Sophia C., Daniel D., Eric D., Charles H., James J., Harry J., Hyunjun K., Terry L., Yunyi L., Yuqing L., Alice L., Shawn L., Lawrence M., Adam M., Arya M., Bhargava M., Joshua M., Andrew R., Arjun S., Albert T., Gugan T., Aaron W., Anna X., Annie X., Samuel X., Daniel X., Andy Y., Eric Y., Mingjia Z., Richard Z., Max Z., Liran Z.

      2023 (30)

      Anantshiri A., Luke C., Nipun D., Minwen D., Konnie D., Canaan H., James J., Hyun Jun K., Brian L., Yunyi L., Jiaxu L., Alice L., Alexander L., Adam Salman M., Aryan M., Bhargava M., Joshua M., Simon David N., Arjun S., Anurag S., Albert T., Aaron W., Nathan W., Phoenix W., Andrew W., Samuel X., Annie X., Hansen Y., Richard Z., Nathan Z.

    • 2022 (28)

      Alan Song, Albert Tang, Alex Lu, Alice Liu, Alor Sahoo, Anant Asthana, Andrew Zhang, Annie Xu, Anurag Sodhi, Aryan Morasa, Brian Li, Caleb Zhao, Canaan He, Frank Horrigan, Jack Liu, Jiarui Peng, Jiaxu Liu, Luke Chen, Mingwen Duan, Nathan Ouyang, Nathan Zhao, Neil Chowdhury, Nipun Dour, Phoenix Wu, Richard Zhuang, Steven Sun, Yunyi Ling, Yuvan Chali

    • 2021 (22)

      Vishwa Reddy Akkati, Charley Cheng, Neil Chowdhury, Nipun Dour, Mingwen Duan, Canaan He, Phillip Jeong, Frank Lee, Sunwoo Lee, Ethan Lin, Jack Liu, Evan Liu, Nathan Ouyang, Nicholas Ouyang, Ameya Padakanti, Kwanwoo Park, Alor Sahoo, Nikhil Seshadri, Alex Wang, Kaien Yang, June Yin, Yitian Zhu

    • 2020 (21)

      Alec Zhu, Andrew Feng, Anugrah Chemparathy, David Chi, David Li He, Iris Yan, Jack Liu, James Lao, Justin Chen, Kaien Yang, Michael Han, Neil Chowdhury, Nicholas Tsao, Nicolas Ouyang, Nikhil Seshadri, Ridings Bald, Robbie Ge, Sachin Thaker, Vasu Kaker, Yannik Singh, Yitian Zhu

    • 2019 (22):

      Alec Zhu, Allen Ding, Andrew Feng, Anu Chemparathy, Iris Yan, James Lao, Jenny Cai, Jenny Zhao, Michael Han, Nicolas Tsao, Ridings Bald, Ian Gurland, Christopher Lee, Zhuoyuan Li, Nikhil Seshadri, Benjamin Tang, Matthew Wang, Matthew Xu, Kaien Young, Richard Yin, Varun Chheda, Yannik Singh

  • 242 students placed in the top 150 in the nation (Honors)

    • 2024 (32): excluding Top 20 and Top 50

      Jolene C., Yao C., Andrew D., Emma F., Junhao (Eric) Wang, Neel G., Jason G., Louis H., Daniel J., Anurag K., Clare L., Daniel L., Victor L., Evan L., Lucas L., Alan L-S., Kaden L., Rence L., Simon N., Jay S., Akshath S., Lucy S., Ryan T., Jenny W., William W., Tianyi W., Tanya W., Keith X., Eric X., Michelle X., Luke X., Connor Z.

      2023 (35): excluding Top 20 and Top 50

      Andrew C., Anuprabha D., Daniel D., Owen D., Eric D., Austin F., Jason G., Charles H., Anurag K., Justin L., Dingda L., Victor L., Vincent L., Anna L., Daniel L., Lawrence M., Ibrahim M., Victor P., William P., Anh Khoi P., Lauren S., Kevin S., Alan S., Edward S., Steven S., Rohan S., Kevin T., Nikhil V., Mahesh V., Michael W., Andy Y., Ryan Y., Mingjia Z., Andy Z., Max Z.

    • 2022 (38): excluding Top 20 and Top 50

      Akshay Guttikondra, Amit Saha, Andrew Cai, Andy Zhou, Angela Jiao, Anirudh Tenneti, Anna Liu, Anurag Kapila, Austin Feng, Clifford Jin, Cory Wu, Daniel Lu, Edward Sun, Ericka Lai, Frank Lee, Grace Yang, Hannah Yeom, Harry Zheng, Henry Feng, Isaac Wang, Jason Sze, Kaitlyn Li, Kevin Qian, Kevin Shen, Konnie Duan, Konnie Duan, Lawrence Ma, Lucy Wang, Marcus Ho, Nathan Wei, Nicholas D'Sa, Nicolas Liu, Ryan Yu, Sahand Adibnia, Samuel Xu, Shawn Wang, Sunwoo Lee, William Meng

    • 2021 (30): excluding Top 20 and Top 50

      Sahand Adibnia, Shouri Bochetty, Yuvan Chali, Luke Chen, David Chi, Pravir Chugh, Konnie Duan, Henry Feng, Anthony Han, Vivian Hir, William Lee, Anna Lian, Lawrence Liu, Matthew Liu, Nicolas Liu, William Meng, Ziyi Qian, Amit Saha, Zhuhan Shao, Steven Sun, Tyler Tan, Albert Tang, Vanessa Xiao, Derek Yan, Jeffrey Xue, Elizabeth Zhang, Jack Zhang, Caleb Zhao, Nathan Zhao, Ethan Zhou

    • 2020 (21): excluding Top 20 and Top 50

      Aditya Rao, Alor Sahoo, Charley Cheng, Eric Liu, Frank Lee, Ian Gurland, Jay Sarva, Jenny Cai, Jeremy Tian, Jiwon Jeong, Justin Huang, Kwanwoo Park, Lawrence Liu, Lawrence Zhao, Phillip Jeong, Pratham Soni, Ricky Wang, Terry Ma, Tomas Germanas, Vivian Hir, Zachary Deng

    • 2019 (16): excluding Top 20 and Top 50

      Zachary Deng, Robbie Ge, Vishnu Iyer, Jiwon Jeong, Song Eun Kim, Jeffrey Liu, Shriya Rangaswamy, Aditya Rao, Aayush Somani, Peter Toma, Pratham Soni, Alex Wang, Richy Wang, Skyler Wu, Hamlin Wu, Alan Zhang

  • Honorable Mentions (New award started from 2021)

    • 2021 (8): Anantshri Asthana, Jason Fu, Marcus Ho, Anna Liu, Jiaxu Liu, Lucas Sosnick, Kevin Qian, Andy Zhou


WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY CHEMISTRY TOURNAMENT (WUCT) RESULTS
Professor Huang's almost students sweep the WUCT awards every year:

2024 Results

Two JPH teams attended the 2024 WUCT. As usual, JPH students and teams had an amazing performance! Congratulations!!!

In addition, a few Professor Huang’s students formed their own school teams and brought more and more students to the WUCT, such as Montgomery Blair High School, William Mason High School, ACES Learning Center, Team DChO, Nighthawks etc.)

Listed below are Professor Huang's students who were awarded:

(Note: JPH1 and JPH2 were two online class teams, Carmel High School 1 consisted of Prof. Huang's local class students.)

 Director’s Award (Overall Top 3 Teams)

#1 JPH 2

#2 Camel high School 1

 Breaking Bond Round (Top 5)

#1 Montgomery Blair High School

#2 Carmel High School 1

#3 JPH 2

#5 JPH 1

 Team Round (Top 5)

#1 JPH 2

#3 Montgomery Blair High School

#4 JPH 1

#5 ACES Learning Center

 Individual: (top 10):

#1 Yunyi Ling – Montgomery Blair High School

#2 Adam Madni – Carmel High School 1

#3 Arjun Sharma – JPH 2

#4 Aaron Wang – JPH 1

#5 Yuqing Liu – ACES Learning Center

#7 Johnny Mortha - Carmel High School 1

#8 Alan Liu-Sui – Nighthawks

#9 Shawn Liu – Team DChO

#10 Daniel Ding – JPH 1

 Topic Exam: Chemistery (Top 5):

#1 JPH 2

#2 JPH 1

#3 William Mason High School

#5 Carmel High School 1

 Topic Exam: Chemistry of Cancer (Top 5):

#1 Team DChO

#2 Carmel High School 1

#3 Montgomery Blair High School

#4 JPH 1

#5 ACES Learning Center

 Topic Exam: History of Chemistry (Top 5):

#1 ACES Learning Center

#2 Team DChO

#3 Montgomery Blair High School

#4 Carmel High School 1

#5 JPH 2

2023 Results

(Note:

JPH1 and JPH2 were two online class teams;

Montgomery Maryland Team was formed by three JPH students, Caleb Zhao, Yunyi Ling, and Andy Ying;

The Westminster Schools Team was formed by JPH student, Albert Tang;

Carmel High School 1 consisted of Prof. Huang's local class students.)

Director’s Award (Overall Top 3 Teams)

#1 JPH 2

#2 Montgomery Maryland

#3 Camel high School 1

(JPH1 was not qualified for Director Award because one team member didn’t show up.)

Breaking Bond Round (Top 5)

#1 JPH 2 (Completed all problems in the problem bank!)

#2 JPH 1 (Completed all problems in the problem bank!)

#3 Montgomery Maryland

#4 Carmel High School 1

 Team Round (Top 5)

#1 Montgomery Maryland

#2 JPH 1

#3 JPH 2

#4 Carmel High School 1

 Individual: (top 10):

#1 Anurag Sodhi – JPH 2

#2 Caleb Zhao – Montgomery Maryland

#3 Yunyi Ling - Montgomery Maryland

#4 Anant Asthana – JPH 2

#5 Annie Xu – JPH 2

#6 Andy Ying - Montgomery Maryland

#8 Kevin Tang – Ladue Horton Watkins

#9 Bhargava Mortha – Carmel 1

#10 Hansen Yang – JPH 2

 Topic Exam: Chemistry of 5 Senses (Top 5):

#1 JPH 2

#2 Montgomery Maryland

#4 The Westminster Schools

#5 JPH 1

 Topic Exam: Chemistry of Deserts (Top 5):

#1 Carmel School 1

#2 JPH 1

#3 JPH 2

 Topic Exam: Chemistry of Astronomy (Top 5):

#1 Carmel School 1

#2 Montgomery Maryland

#3 JPH 2

#5 JPH 1

2022 Results

(Note: JPH1 and JPH2 were two online class teams. Friends of Chemistry, Carmel 1 and Carmel 2 consisted of Prof. Huang's other online students and local class students.)

Director’s Award (Overall Top 5 Teams)

#1 JPH 1

#2 JPH 2

 Breaking Bond Round (Top 5)

# 1 JPH 1 (score 351, record breaking!)

#2 Carmel 1 (score 320, record breaking!)

#4 JPH 2

#5 Friends of Chemistry

 Team Round (Top 5)

#1 JPH 2

#4 Carmel 1

#5 JPH1

 Individual: (top 10):

#2 Nathan Ouyang - JPH 1

#3 Johnny Mortha - Carmel 1

#4 Katilyn Li – Friends of Chemistry

#6 Albert Tang – JPH 1

#8 Richard Zhuang - JPH 2

#9 Eva Qiao – Carmel 2

#10 Yuvan Chali – JPH 1

 Topic Exam: Chemistry of Medicine (Top 5):

#1 Carmel 1

#4 JPH 1

 Topic Exam: Chemistry of Climate Change (Top 5):

#2 JPH 1

#3 Carmel 2

#5 Friends of Chemistry

 Topic Exam: Chemistry of Cosmetics (Top 5):

#1 JPH 1

#3 JPH 2

#5 Friends of Chemistry

2021 Results

(Note: Only two JPH online class teams,JPH1 and JPH2, were allowed to attend 2021 WUCT)

Director’s Award (Top 5 Teams)

  • 1st: Carmel 1

  • 2nd: JPH 1

  • 3rd:  JPH 2

Team (Top 10 Teams):

  • 1st: JPH 1

  • 2nd: Carmel 1

Individual: (top 15 individuals):

  • 1st:  Nikhil Seshadri JPH 1

  • 2nd:  Nicolas Liu Naperville North

  • 3rd: Nathan Ouyang JPH 2

  • 4th:  Canaan He Carmel 1

  • 6th: Evan Liu JPH 1

  • 8th: Jack Liu Carmel 1

  • 9th: Mingwen Duan JPH 2

  • 11th:  Jack Zhang JPH 2

  • 12th: Vivian Hir Quarry Lane

  • 14th: Alex Wang Syosset

  • 15th:  Alor Sahoo JPH 1

Breaking Bonds (Top 5 Teams):

  • 1st: Carmel 1

  • 2nd: JPH 2

  • 3rd:  JPH 1

Topics Round: Chemistry of Forensics (Top 10 individuals):

  • 1st: Alor Sahoo JPH 1

  • 2nd: Jack Liu Carmel 1

  • 3rd: Lawrence Liu Marquette

  • 4th: Evan Liu JPH 1

  • 5th: Mingwen Duan JPH 2

  • 7th: Yitian Zhu Seven Lakes

  • 8th: Luke Chen Ruthenates

  • 9th: Henry Feng JPH 2

  • 10th: William Lee Ruthenates

Topics Round: Chemistry of Farming (Top 10 individuals):

  • 1st:   Alex Wang Syosset

  • 2nd:  Nicolas Liu Naperville North

  • 4th: Nathan Ouyang JPH 2

  • 6th: Canaan He Carmel 1

  • 7th: Neil Chowdhury JPH 2

  • 9th: Nikhil Seshadri JPH 1

2020 WUCT was cancelled

2019 Results

Director’s Award (Top 10 Teams)

  • 1st: Park Tudor School 1

  • 2nd: Carmel High School 1

  • 4th:  Carmel High School 2

  • 5th:  H. Selenium Team

  • 6th:  H. Vanadium Team

  • 7th:  H. Lanthanum Team

  • 9th:  H. Iridium Team

  • 10th: H. Silicon Team

Team (Top 10 Teams):

  • 1st: Park Tudor School 1

  • 2nd: Carmel High School 1

  • 4th: Carmel High School 2

  • 5th: H. Lanthanum Team

  • 6th: H. Selenium Team

  • 7th: H. Iridium

  • 10th: Zionsville Community High School

 Individual: (top 15 individuals):

  • 1st:  Carmel High School 1: Yannik Singh

  • 2nd:  Carmel High School 1: Iris Yan

  • 3rd: H. Lanthanum Team: Alec Zhu 

  • 4th:  Park Tudor School 1: Andrew Wu

  • 5th: H. Silicon Team: Anu Chemparathy

  • 6th: Park Tudor School 1: Jenny Zhao

  • 8th: Carmel High School 1: Robbie Ge

  • 9th:  H. Cobalt Team: Zhuoyuan (Peter) Li

  • 10th: H. Vanadium Team: Allen Ding

  • 11th: Park Tudor School 1: Varun Chheda

  • 12th:  Park Tudor School 1: Jenny Cai

  • 14th:  H. Selenium Team: Richard Yin

  • 15th: Benjamin Tang

Breaking Bonds (Top 10 Teams):

  • 1st:   Park Tudor School 1

  • 3rd: Carmel High School 1

  • 4th:  H. Selenium Team

  • 6th:  H. Lanthanum Team

  • 7th: Carmel High School 2

  • 10th: Park Tudor School 1

 Chemistry of Cleaning (Top 5):

  • 1st: Carmel High School 1

  • 2nd: Park Tudor School 1

  • 3rd: Carmel High School 2

  • 4th: H. Vanadium Team

  • 5th:  H. Cobalt Team

Chemistry of Art (Top 5):

  • 1st:   Park Tudor School 1

  • 2nd:  H. Lanthanum Team

  • 3rd: Carmel High School 1 

  • 4th:  H. Vanadium Team

  • 5th:  H. Silicon Team

 Chemistry of Ocean (Top 5):

  • 2nd: Park Tudor School 1

  • 3rd:  H. Iridium Team

  • 4th:  Carmel High School 1

2018 Results

Director’s Award (Top 5)

  • 1st: Park Tudor School 1

  • 2nd: Carmel High School 1

  • 4th: JPH Online Class Team

  • 5th: Carmel High School 2

Team (Top 5):

  • 1st: Park Tudor School 1

  • 3rd: Carmel High School 1

  • 4th: Carmel High School 2

  • 5th: JPH Online Class Team

Individual: (top 15):

  • 1st: Park Tudor School 1: Andrew Wu

  • 4th: Carmel High School 1: Kevin Liu

  • 5th: Troy High School: Matthew Wang

  • 6th: JPH Online Class Team: Allen Ding

  • 6th: Park Tudor School 1: Jenny Zhao

  • 8th: Park Tudor School 1: Allen Zhao

  • 9th: Carmel High School 2: Harry Wang

  • 10th Carmel High School 1: Iris Yan

  • 10th: Carmel High School 1: Yannik Singh

  • 10th Carmel High School 2: Parker Jou

  • 13th: JPH Online Class Team: Ridings Bald

  • 14th: Park Tudor School 1: Varun Chheda

Breaking Bonds (Top 5):

  • 1st: Carmel High School 1

  • 2nd: Carmel High School 2

  • 4th: Park Tudor School 1

Chemistry of Cooking (Top 5):

  • 1st: Carmel High School 1: Yannik Singh and Satvik Kumar

  • 2nd: JPH Online Class Team: Allen Ding & David Lian

  • 3rd: Zionsville Community High School: Jeremy Chiang & James Lao

  • 4th Park Tudor School 1: Aaron Chai & Jenny Zhao

Chemistry of Environment (Top 5):

  • 1st: Troy High School: Jae Woo Kim & Matthew Wang

  • 2nd: Park Tudor School 1: Varun Chheda & Andrew Wu

  • 3rd: Carmel High School 1: Kevin Liu & Jessica Zhang

  • 4th: Carmel High School 2: Parker Jou & Jerry Wang

  • 5th: JPH Online Class Team: Ayush Glyer & Ridings Bald

Chemistry of Human Body (Top 5):

  • 1st: Park Tudor School 1: Allen Zhao & Jenny Cai

  • 2nd: Carmel High School 2: James Yin & Robbie Ge

  • 5th: JPH Online Class Team: Melissa Li & Michelle Jun Wang


2017 Results

  • Individual Exam: 1st, 3rd-9th places

  • Topic Exam - Chemistry of Life: 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th places

  • Topic Exam - Chemistry of Industry: 1st – 4th places

  • Topic Exam - Chemistry of Coffee: 1st-4th places

  • Team Exam: 1st-3rd places

  • Breaking-Bonds Exam: 1st-3rd places

  • Sweepstakes: 1st-3rd places

2016 Results

  • Individual Exam - Chemical Structure and Properties: 1st-9th places

  • Individual Exam - Chemical and Physical Equilibrium: 1st-9th places

  • Individual Exam - Kinetics, Electrochemistry, Thermodynamics 1st-7th, 9th-10th places

  • Relay Round: 1st-3rd places

  • Team Round: 1st place, 3rd places

  • Sweepstakes: 1st-3rd places

YOU BE THE CHEMIST CHALLENGE RESULTS
2017:  Professor Huang's student,  Ameya Belamkar, 8th Grade from Carmel, IN placed 3rd in the nation

COLLEGE ADMISSIONS
In the past six years, his students have attended:

  • Harvard (37)

  • MIT (44)

  • Yale (15)

  • Princeton (13)

  • Stanford (25)

  • Columbia (9)

  • UPenn (10)

  • Duke (16)

  • University of Chicago (12)

  • Dartmouth (9)

  • Northwestern (16)

  • Brown University (14)

  • Cornell University (14)

  • University of California at Berkeley (18)

  • & many more!