Students Tackle Economics at Harvard

Last week, eight seniors traveled to Cambridge, MA, to participate in the Harvard Pre-Collegiate Economics Challenge, an annual economics competition held on the Harvard campus. The participants included 30 teams from 18 schools across the U.S. The team of Arya Kumar, Kylie McKinley, Tea Picconatto, and Greg Zubler defeated Union County Academy (NJ) and Thomas Jefferson (VA) in the quiz bowl section, lost to Lexington (MA) A and B, and accumulated enough points to be one of just eight teams to advance to the final elimination round – ending with an overall fourth place ranking. They were defeated by Farmington (CT) in the quarterfinal. The team of Arya Bansal, Lauren Foster, Jack Nelson, and Brock Schedler won their quiz bowl matches against Lexington A and Union County Academy but lost to Lexington B and Thomas Jefferson. They did not advance to the elimination round. The day in Cambridge included a visit by Rajan Bhargava '22, now a first-year student at Harvard, and a serendipitous encounter with Kay Rollins '21, who is also studying at Harvard.