Fayetteville High School East
Fayetteville High School East
Marc Reif, Coach
Coach Marc Reif has taught at Fayetteville High School in two stints for a total of seventeen years, most recently since 2008. He currently teaches his favorite subjects, on-level and AP physics. He is a native of Fayetteville, and a graduate of the University of Arkansas and the University of North Carolina. He and his wife, Eden, have two daughters, one in eleventh grade, but sadly not in science bowl, and the other in college. He likes to run and bicycle, and he spends his summers presenting AP physics professional development institutes for teachers. This is his fifth year coaching a Science Bowl team, and his second time at any kind of national academic competition. Coach Reif is not sure what he has done to deserve such fantastic students. His biggest contribution to their success has been making sure the field trip form gets filled out properly so they do not get counted absent while at Science Bowl competitions.
Taksh Patel
Taksh Patel is in the eleventh grade and is known to forget his things. Allegedly, he forgets his science too. How did Taksh even make it to nationals? In his free time, Taksh likes to go on long hikes and work in a lab to blow stuff up. In the future, Taksh plans to work in a lab so he can prove that The Pyramids of Giza were created by aliens.
Janet Fu
Janet Fu, a junior, is a benevolent Student Council President, grammar disciplinarian, coerced writer, and quasi-learned violinist. As a high performing participant in track, she understands the benefits of regular torture and hydration. Janet likes growing loofah, stargazing, paddleboarding, and rapidly skimming novels. She insists Shell fuel lasts longer and that almond milk makes Reese’s puffs taste better. Her future plans include eternal happiness. Her more immediate plans are worldly suffering due to AP exams. You cannot follow her mischievous antics on social media, but if you ever stop by Fayetteville you are welcome to visit her.
Irene Raich
Irene Raich, a junior, is a politician, author, weightlifter, ambassador, singer, diplomat, neo-Freudian, accountant, welder, seamstress, engineer, bodyguard, flight attendant, theologian, conservationist, and a remarkably mediocre scientist. Her most notable achievement is aiding the Central Intelligence Agency in inciting proxy wars during the 1960s. Many people note Irene’s dedication to British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, and she lives by her famous quote “The trouble with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples’ money.” In her personal life, Irene enjoys writing serious biographies about herself in the third person. She hopes to become the dictator of a small country in the future.
Alan Chen
Alan Chen is in eleventh grade and doesn't appreciate writing biographies about himself. Supposedly, Alan practices the art of piano playing and chess playing, but steps around all these obstacles for the immediate goal of finding time to laze around. Alan loves learning about the world around him, other languages and meteorology. These interests notably support his ultimate goal of world domination, though his actions do not support this goal. Alan is usually very quiet, but this quietness should be assumed to be him planning on how to dominate the world. Please do not interrupt when he is in this state.
Keming Meng
Keming Meng, a sophomore at Fayetteville High School, thinks science is okay.
