ACADEMIC COMPETITION TEAMS

SPEECH & DEBATE: The Speech & Debate team is ranked number 1 in the entire country, after students competed in more than 50 tournaments across five different events. This year, 89 students qualified for the New York State Tournament, 31 qualified for the Tournament of Champions, and 16 qualified for the Catholic National Championship. The Congressional Debate and Novice Lincoln-Douglas Debate squads both became State Champions. The team also championed at the Yale University Invitational, Mamaroneck Fall Face Off, Lexington Invitational, Isidore Newman Invitational, Durham Cavalier Invitational, and more. The season concluded with the Bronx Science Congressional Debate Team winning the national championship at the CFL Grands.

OTHER: Bronx Science has several academic competition teams besides Speech & Debate, including Science Olympiad, Model United Nations, and two robotics teams, the Sciborgs and the FeMaidens. The FeMaidens placed third overall in the 2023 New York City Regional and won the team spirit award. The Sciborgs also competed at the NYC Regional, where Asa Paparo ’24 was a Dean’s List Finalist. This year, the Science Olympiad placed second overall in the New York North Regional and earned six medals at States. The Model United Nations team attended several conferences and won ten awards at a conference hosted by Yale.

Publications

The annual student literature and arts magazine, Dynamo, was published in early June. “We received over 100 submissions of poetry, stories and artwork for this year's issue and are super excited about how the magazine came together,” said club president Helen Stone ’23. This was also an exciting year for the more than one hundred students involved with the Science Survey newspaper and yearbook. The Science Survey released four issues on its website throughout the year, with 450+ articles documenting student life, politics, popular culture, and more.