Shenendehowa High School
Shenendehowa High School
Michael Tymeson, Coach
Coach Mike Tymeson has taught physics for the past seventeen years. He received B.S./M.S. degrees in biomedical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. After managing an orthopedic research laboratory for a number of years, he enrolled at the State University of New York in Albany and obtained an M.S. degree in secondary education. Today, Coach Tymeson teaches college-level physics in the high school setting, while advising the cubing club in addition to the Science Bowl team. He coaches boys soccer at the school as well as club soccer and travel baseball. In his free time, Coach Tymeson loves to play pickleball, drink pina coladas and take long walks in the rain. Lastly, Coach Tymeson is given great support by his wife Kate, twin sons Ben and Sam, and devoted therapy dog Olive!
Edward Li
Edward Li is a sophomore that enjoys Science Bowl. He is still waiting for his National Science Bowl swag from two years ago to arrive. He is an avid biker and bikes around his hometown of Bethlehem, without parental supervision. On Saturdays, he is forced to bike to Chicago and participate in the romanticism of the culture. Edward Li loves his bike, and would not trade it for anything from Timbuktu and back. He has won the annual Bike Bowl twice and enjoys catching other bikers doing illegal schemes to assert his dominance as the apex predator. Edward’s favorite animal is the hagfish because of the copious amounts of slime it can produce. On the streets, he is known as Deadbird402.
Aryadeepta De
Aryadeepta De is a senior from Troy, New York. He is on the Science Bowl team because there was an open spot, and he is good at guessing. Unfortunately, his guesses were not good enough to get him into the Neg Bowl, but he is a three-time Neg Camper, winning gold for the USA International Negging Olympiad team by negging every question immediately. When he is not a failure, he enjoys sleeping, eating, and making pancakes. He plans on stealing computers from the computer science department of whatever college accepts him.
Andre Adoninno
Andre Adonnino is a senior that enjoys Science Bowl. Originally an art kid with an interest in the sciences, Andre found himself growing particularly interested in chemistry after taking AP chemistry. When he is not reading comic books or drawing Spider-Man, Andre can be found running outside as part of the Shenendehowa Track team or beating his friends at miniature golf. Andre has gotten close to his teammates and enjoys the people he has been able to meet through Science Bowl. Andre will be furthering his education at Columbia University, where he plans to major in chemistry with a potential minor in visual arts.
Tony Liu
Until very recently, Tony Liu was a trivela enthusiast based in the town of New Mexico, N.Y. Mostly, he enjoys Science Bowl because of the sound the buzzer makes. He appreciates Tryptophan (W) for the synthesis of 5-hydroxytryptamine, N-acetyl-5-methoxytryptamine, and It follows hypnagogic hallucinations. He often finds himself pondering flagpoles raised to twice their designed height. His favorite subject in school is modernism and he has an Interest in Eliot Studies, compounded by a burning passion for prescriptive grammar, linguistics, and acrostic poems. He is an USA Biology Olympiad Open Exam participant, with a strong admiration for Federer’s backhand. He also holds the Shenendehowa record for most consecutive Trivia! victories. In closing, he would like to clearly reaffirm his belief in the heliocentricity of the solar system.
Arnav Singh
Arnav Singh, or known by his secret identity of Arnie, is a senior that gets a buzz out of Science Bowl. He has lived through tragedy and heartbreak when his friends from Acadia Middle School departed off on their own voyage through the cosmos, after making it to nationals. Arnie had a pact with one of his former Acadia teammates—Andrew Tao—to return to the glorious stage of the National Science Bowl, and meet once again. Sadly, Andrew Tao did not make it, and neither did Italy’s football team. It’s a good thing Arnie can make a run, mostly for the track team he spends his time at. Sometimes Arnie runs towards Arya to beat him up when he interrupts a question before it is even read. To interrupt one last time, Arnie sticks with the philosophy that answering W is always the best guess.
