Rio Americano High School Physics
Rio Physics Halls of Fame

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Physics Bowl - Advanced Placement Physics B and C - Physics Golden State Exam

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PHYSICS BOWL HALL OF FAME

Each year since 1991, Rio Americano physics students have participate in the American Association of Physics Teachers Physics Bowl competition examination. The exam is 40 multiple choice questions to be answered in 45 minutes. The exam is administered across the nation each April. Schools compete within about 15 regions across the country and in two divisions. Rio Americano has placed 1st or 2nd in the years indicated below. The names are those of the four top scorers who combined to give Rio the winning score. Starting in 1998, top scoring individual students have been recognized and honored with scholarships.

2003 - 2nd Place - Division II: Second Year Students - Region 14: California, Hawaii, US Protectorates
Sean Arenson	Michael Schoff	David Sharg	Jordan Miller-Ziegler
2001 - 2nd Highest Score - Division II: Second Year Students - Region 14: California, Hawaii, US Protectorates
William Adams		$100 Scholarship
2000 - 2nd Highest Score - Division II: Second Year Students - Region 14: California, Hawaii, US Protectorates
William Adams		$100 Scholarship
1997 - 1st Place - Division I: All First Year Physics Students - Region 13: California
Matthew Powell	John Stanley	Leor Thomas	Paul Zheng
1992 - 2nd Place - Division II: Second Year or AP Physics Students - Region 14: Northern California, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming
Rudi Cilibrasi	Aaron Lin	Eric Tune	Roger Yang
1991 - 1st Place - Division II: Second Year or AP Physics Students - Region 14: Northern California, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming
Rudi Cilibrasi	Kip Bishofberger	Stefan Banducci	Jason Kamras*

*National Teacher of the Year, 2005.

2004
PAUL GEBHART	TREVOR JOHNSON
CHARLES LILLY	THOMAS OLIVER
ARJUN SINHA	NICKOLAI VOLKOFF-SHOEMAKER

2003 (Tie with 2002 for Physics B 5's)
SEAN ARENSON	BO CAO
SARAH CRISTY	PATRICK DO
BRIAN HOLT	ANDY JIANG
KENNETH MAK	JORDAN MILLER-ZIEGLER
MICHAEL SCHOFF	DAVID SHARG
JESSICA WILLIAMSON	EVAN WINCHESTER

2002 (Most AP Physics B passing scores in Rio history; most Physics 5's in Rio history)
HENRY ADAMS (Stanford)	HSINYING (JASON) CHOU (UC Berkeley)
JESSE EDELSTEIN (UC Berkeley)	RUSSELL GHISELLI
WESLEY HOLLIDAY (2003)	ALLISTAIR HUTCHESON
DANIEL OLIVER (Caltech)	KEITH PASKO
MOHAMMAD (REZA) PEJUHESH	ARTEM RYAZANTSEV
ADAM SCHLOTHAN (UC Davis)	DAVID SIMON
* MARK SHAMIS*

2001
NATHAN SCHLOTHAN (UC Davis)	WESTON TANTON
* BHARAT SINHA * (UC Berkeley)	** BHARAT SINHA ** (UC Berkeley)

2000
WILLIAM ADAMS (Stanford)	JAY BURKHEAD (UC Berkeley)
JOHN CASON (UC Berkeley)	STEPHEN JACKSON (UC Berkeley)
TIAN LIANG (UC Berkeley)	BHARAT SINHA (UC Berkeley)

1999 (100% pass rate)
LESLIE LUI (UC Berkeley)	JANE LURIE (UC Davis)
KELLY QUINLEY (UC Berkeley)	MEGAN TODD (Harvard)

1998 (Final one-year AP Physics B class at Rio)
GORDON AU (UC Berkeley)	STEVEN BLACK (UCLA)
SHERRY HE (Brown)	REBECCA JENNINGS (Dartmouth)
KELLIE KOEDEL (UC San Diego)	AMANDA LIPON (Pennsylvania)
ERIN PERCIVAL (Stanford)	ROBERT SCHAFER (Stanford)
CHRISTOPHER SHEN (UC Berkeley)	EMILY SIEGEL (Williams)

1997 (100% pass rate)
ANNE DURSTON (Harvard)	BENJAMIN GUMPERT (UCLA)
MICHAEL HOUSTON (UC San Diego)	VRIANA KEMPSTER (UOP)
KEVIN LAU (UC San Diego)	MATTHEW POWELL (UC San Diego)
AARON ROSENBERG (Wesleyan)	JOHN STANLEY (Stanford)
LEOR THOMAS (Brown)

1996
SUNDEEP AHUJA (Stanford)	WESLEY JACKSON (UC Berkeley)
MICHELLE YOUN (MIT)	* SUSAN CROWN * (Cornell)

1995 (100% pass rate: nothing but 4's and 5's)
SUSAN CROWN (Cornell)	RICARDO ESPINOZA (American River)
JENNY POGORILER (William & Mary)	ANNE SCHAFER (Harvard)
BERKAT S. TUNG (American River)

1994 (100% pass rate)
JEREMY KAMRAS (Columbia)	ERIC McGILL (UC Berkeley)
LUKAS SIMONIS (UC Berkeley)	EUGENE SPEVAKOV (UC Berkeley)

1993
J. WINSTON CHIONG (UC Berkeley)	BRIAN DENNY (UC Berkeley)
KENT ISHIHARA (Vanderbilt)	BRIAN PERCIVAL (Harvard)
PAUL PFEIFFER (Dartmouth)	KARTHIKEYAN THYAGARAJAN

1992 (Year of the Cardinal?)
PAUL D'ALBORA (Stanford)	AARON LIN (Stanford)
JEFFREY SWATT (Stanford)	ROGER YANG (Stanford)

1991
KIP BISHOFBERGER (MIT)	RUDI CILIBRASI (Caltech)
LINSEY MARR (Harvard)	KENNETH PHILLIPS (Bucknell)
ERIK SHELLEY (UC Davis)

1989 (First Rio AP Physics C 5)
TREVOR BAUER (MIT)	ROBERT EDWARDS (Stanford)
KRISTINA ISHIHARA (Cornell)	MICHAEL PASKOWITZ (UC Davis)
ERIK STUART (Princeton)	JESS WALKER (CSU Sacramento)
* ANTHONY GAMST * (UC Berkeley)

1987 (100% pass rate; first Rio AP Physics B 5)

JEREMY GOLLUB (Caltech)

*Physics C: Mechanics
** Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism

PHYSICS GOLDEN STATE EXAMINATION HALL OF FAME

The Golden State Examination, a statewide honors exam, is given annually in a variety of academic subjects. In 1999, physics was added. All first-year physics students are given the opportunity to take the exam in class. The test consists of multiple choice questions and a lab task. Student performance is evaluated on a six-point scale. Students earning the highest score point of 6 are granted Physics GSE High Honors. Those who earn a 5 are granted Honors, and those who earn a 4 are granted School Recognition. Below are annual lists of High Honorees--those who earned the top score.

In 2003, the Golden State Examination in Physics (and nearly all other content areas) was terminated due to California's budget crisis. So the last year of the Golden State Examination in Physics was 2002.

2002 High Honorees
Sean Arenson + (pb)	Spencer Bartlett	Lindsay Blok	Bo Cao +
Michael Coyne	Sarah Cristy +	Patrick Do +	Ranon Dulberg
Andrew Elliott	Erin Fong	Daniel Heeren	Danny Holl
Jason Hopper	Andy Jiang +	Jake Losh	Benjamin Meyer
Jordan Miller-Ziegler + (pb)	Jonathan Ostrem	John Peloquin	Michael Schoff + (pb)
Jessica Stanley
2001 High Honorees
Henry Adams +	Andrew Deeringer	Jesse Edelstein +	Farhoud Faraji
Max Feinstat	Russell Ghiselli +	Emily Hersh-Burdick	Wesley Holliday +
Alistair Hutcheson +	Nina Kapoor	Daniel Kellow*	Locke Macomber-Jones
Jason Marks	Jared Moore	Daniel Oliver +	Keith Pasko +
Mohamad Pejuhesh +	Artem Ryazentsev +	Adam Schlothan +	Mark Shamis +
David Simon +	Mary Sockolov	Alan Tu	John Walker
Kaitlin Walker	Leon Xu	Daniel Yan
2000 High Honoree
Philip Merksamer
1999 High Honorees
William Adams + (pb)	Teresa Breen	Eric Buer	John Cason
Daniel Choe	Michael Deeringer	Chad Dibble*	Stacy Fat
James Flannery	Gregory Hill	Helena Lee	Charles Leininger*
Leslie Lui* +	Jane Lurie* +	Sarah Milstein*	Jennifer Osborn*
Kelly Quinley* +	Geetha Reddy*	Michael Shelley	Avraham Thomas
Jori Thomas*	Megan Todd* +	Glen Winn	*AP Student

+ indicates AP Physics B Hall of Fame Member