Recognitions from National and Local Competitions
Awards and Test Results
2011 - 2012 School Year
                         Click on image to enlarge

JANUARY 2012
Maryland Wood Bridge Challenge
 Ingenuity students took 1st and 3rd places in the Maryland Engineering Challenge for Wood Bridges. 10th grader Nadine Benavides won the contest with a structure that supported over 1300 times its own weight. Classmate Trey Huff came in third with an efficiency score over 900. Trey also earned the award for the lightest structure that satisfied all the rules, his second year in a row! Nadine and Trey will represent the state of Maryland at the International Bridge Building Contest, to be held in April in Las Vegas, Nevada.
NOVEMBER 2011
 Amateur Night at the Apollo
Ingenuity at Poly sophomore Keith Davenport won First Place in "Stars of Tomorrow" at the Amateur Night: Super Top Dog. Keith also tied for first place at the May 11 Stars of Tomorrow, won first place at the May 4 Stars of Tomorrow and first place at the April 20th Stars of Tomorrow. Click here to hear Keith play at Apollo.
The Apollo Theater in New York City is one of the most famous music halls in the United States.

 Wendy's High School Heisman scholar athlete competition
Grace Kearney was named a Maryland State finalist for the competition: 10 girls and 10 boys were picked out of almost 500 applicants for Maryland..
OCTOBER 2011
 National Merit Scholarship Program
John Beck, Grace Kearney and Michael Tontchev are semifinalists in the 2012 Competition. Matthew Ekey and Max Frazier are Commended Students in the 2012 Program

Siemens Competition
Elias Weston-Farber is the Siemens Competition semifinalist!
Elias experimented with yeast transposons.
The Siemens Competition recognizes remarkable talent early on, fostering individual growth for high school students who are willing to challenge themselves through science research.

MAY 2011
 Perfect 800 SAT scores
 Grace Kearney on Math SAT with total score of 2380, Matt Ekey and Edward Samson on Math 2 SAT 2, Stephen Timmel on Math 2 and Physics SAT 2, Michael Tontchev on Chemistry SAT 2 and Jinjie Wu on US History SAT 2.

Future Scholars Program at Johns Hopkins University
Joseph Cleary, Matt Ekey, Stephen Timmel and Michael Tontchev have been selected to participate in the Program.
Its an opportunity for high school seniors to take Hopkins regularly scheduled university-level mathematics courses for Hopkins credits.
APRIL 2011
 2011 Baltimore Scholars Award
10 Ingenuity seniors received four-year, full-tuition scholarships to the Johns Hopkins University: Camaree Barr, Caryn Carson, James Fulwilwer, Selena Guerrero-Martin, Muhammad Hamza, Justus Jackson, Daniel Jalova, Jonathan McKenzie, and Edward Samson.

 Gates Millennium Scholar
Ingenuity senior Muhammad Hamza is a 2011 Gates Millennium Scholar.
The goal of the Gates Millennium Scholarship Program is to promote academic excellence and to provide an opportunity for outstanding minority students with significant financial need to reach their highest potential.
National History Day Statewide Competition
Caryn Carson won first place in the regional competition and the Award for Excellence in Civic Action and Engagement in the statewide competition.


International Bridge Building Contest (IBBC)
The 2011 IBBC was held at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, Illinois on April 30, 2011. This year, two teams from Poly were eligible to compete in this competition. Shavonte Brandon and Nadine Benavides, Ingenuity 9th grades, won second place for their entry. Trey Huff, also a 9th grade Ingenuity student, finished in eleventh place. Shavonte's and Nadine's bridge had an efficiency score of 3855 (the ratio of the mass supported divided by the mass of the structure itself); Trey's bridge efficiency in the IBBC event was 2851. Congratulations to our students for their international success at solving this challenge in structural engineering!

U.S. Presidential Scholars Program
Dana Katzenelson is a 2011 U.S. Presidential Scholars Program semifinalist.
The U.S. Presidential Scholars Program was established in 1964, by executive order of the President, to recognize and honor some of our nation's most distinguished graduating high school seniors. Each year, up to 141 students are named as Presidential Scholars, one of the nation's highest honors for high school students.

Maryland Science Olympiad
Ingenuity team won 1st place in regional competition, sweeping away all the 1st place medals for more than 10 different events.
MARCH 2011
 The Carson Scholars Fund
Abena Apaw, Dylan Balter, Gerardo Camarena, Caryn Carson, Matthew Ekey, Victoria Jennings, Billy Lu, Kerra McKnight, Grace Kearney, and Molly Tunis are Carson Scholars.

Perfect 800 SAT scores
Muhammad Hamza and Michael Tontchev scored 800 on Math SAT, and John Beck and Grace Kearney scored 800 on Reading SAT.

AMC 12
Muhammad Hamza, Dana Katzenelson and Lawrence Wang qualified to take the American Invitational Mathematics Exam (AIME).

 Baltimore Science Fair
Michael Tontchev won the Grand Prize in Physical Science ("Subject identification in a sentence using plain context-free grammars"). Michael will represent the Greater Baltimore region in the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair, May 8-13 in Los Angeles.
Elias Weston-Farber won 1st place in Biological Sciences.
Additional Awards: Michael Tontchev received the Yale Science and Engineering Association Award, the Armed Forces Electronics and Communications Award, National Security Award, the US Army Award for Science and Engineering Excellence and First Place Award from the Baltimore Chapter 1 Physical Science. Edward Sampson received the First Place Award from the Baltimore Chapter of the Association of Computing Machinery. Ilenna Jones received the Third Place Award from the US Public Health Service, Surgeon General's Special Award Certificate.