
STEMFEST RECAP & THANKS
Millburn Ed Foundation's first STEMFest event received amazing support from the community in its inaugural year! With over 700 registrants participating, the Millburn community came together to celebrate and support STEM education by competing in Chess, Math, Coding and Environmental challenges, and by proudly decorating the town with STEMFest signs. We can't wait until next year!
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Special thanks to all of the wonderful volunteers and supporters who made this event possible. We'd also like to give a shout out to a few special contributors:
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DAVID LAZARUS, Chess Coach for donating his time to MEF to run the Chess Tournament
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MARY WILEY, MMS Math teacher for designing the three Math Contests
ANA SEPETOVSKA, Software Engineer at Microsoft and ANYA PARKER-LENTZ, CEO at Landau Agency for creating the Coding Challenge
ANA SEPETOVSKA, ANYA PARKER-LENTZ, JULIA TRUITT and DAN SCHIEBLER for judging the Coding Challenge
Members of MILLBURN SCHOOL GREEN TEAM and MILLBURN CLIMATE ACTION GROUP for creating the Environmental Challenge
RENÉ PAPARIAN and ELLEN INGBER, Co-chairs, Millburn Township Green Team, for judging the Environmental Challenge
PETER LIU and family for their sponsorship level donation for STEMFest 2021
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NEETU SALHOTRA and KIM WALLS for co-chairing this new STEM event
CHESS TOURNAMENT
Winners
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Saturday, March 6, 2021
NOVICE LEVEL
1st – Sam Wang, Grade 2
2nd – Vishisht Agarwal, Grade 4
3rd – Ryan Chen, Grade 3
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OPEN LEVEL
1st – Henry Pu, Grade 10
2nd – Jason Lu, Grade 9
3rd – Zain Jaffar, Grade 8
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Top Under 1600 - OPEN LEVEL
Aarit Paliwal, Grade 6

Math Contest
Winners
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Saturday, March 13, 2021
HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL
1st – Arav Ahluwalia, Grade 9
2nd – Stanley Liu, Grade 10
3rd – David Fu, Grade 10
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MIDDLE SCHOOL LEVEL
1st – Oron Wang, Grade 6
2nd (Tie)
Felix Liu, Grade 8
Rohan Rao, Grade 7
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ELEMENTARY LEVEL
1st (Tie)
Anvit Jain, Grade 4
Suvid Bordia, Grade 5
Timothy Xie, Grade 5
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SPECIAL MENTION
Grade 3 – Isaac Zhang
Grade 2 – Anya Srikanth, Divyanshi Bansal & Srithik Jha
CODING CHALLENGE
WinnerS
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Sunday, March 21, 2021
BEGINNER LEVEL
1st – Roma Tandon
2nd – Olivia Liu
3rd – Team The Nature Musketeers: Vivaan Jain Agarwal, Suhaani Kothari, Harshit Arun, Dina Gupta
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CODER LEVEL
1st – Team Dubey Family: Neha Dubey, Rohan Dubey
2nd – Subhiksha Stephan
3rd – Kedaar Shankamarayan
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HACKER LEVEL
1st – Team Joey & Zayn Co: Joey Sorkin & Zayn Rekhi
2nd – Dylan Liu-Walter
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HONORABLE MENTION
Beginner Level
Mehr Kothari
Rian Chadha
Dhruvarsh Talluri
Jouho Park
Alisha Gupta
Team Trash Hunters: Ranveer Sharma & John Ju
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Coder Level
Aarit Paliwal
Dhruv Gupta
David Dedic
Team Lunar Road: Rahul Kanda, Abhi Bathula, Ryan Farashuddin & Eshan Akula
Environmental CHALLENGE Winners
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Sunday, March 21, 2021
LEVEL 1 – Grades K-2
1st – Shane Lim
2nd – Andrew Zheng
3rd – Aditya Jethwa
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LEVEL 2 – Grades 3-5
1st – Team The Elements: Celina Chen, Fiona Hu, Sophia Li
2nd – Attie Ouyang
3rd – Suvid Bordia
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LEVEL 3 – Grades 6-12
1st – Aalok Bhatt
2nd – Team The Goldfish Brains: Sanjana Srivastava, Isha Bhandari, Annette Johnson
3rd – Team Eco Warriors: Ishaan Bharadwaj, Aaryan Jain
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HONORABLE MENTION
Level 1 – Team Recycling Rockstars: Blake Schechter, Gavin Nash, Spencer Abrahams, Beckett Bieber
Level 2 – Amanda Mathay
Level 3 – Team Flower Pot: Eshan Akula, Ryan Farashuddin