McNeil competed in the Pflugerville Academic UIL Invitational against 24 other schools on Nov. 5 placing third overall.

“This being my first tournament since eighth grade, I’m pretty proud of what I placed, and I’m sure I can improve from this,” sophomore Adithya Sreenivasan, who competed in Calculator Applications and Number Sense, said.

The results of the event are below:

Team Events:
Mathematics First Place Team:
1st place – Matthew Golla
1st place (9th grade) – Apoorva Amudhan
3rd place – Jaden Fang
5th place – Arka Majumdar
6th place – Ishav Desai

Calculator Applications 1st Place Team:
1st place – Matthew Golla
3rd place – Arka Majumdar
3rd place (10th grade) – Adithya Sreenivasan

Science 2nd Place Team:
3rd place – Samagra Jain
4th place (tie) – Vinh Ton and Isaac Sorensen
6th place – Arka Majumdar

Number Sense 2nd Place Team:
3rd place (9th grade) – Cynthia Han
3rd place (10th grade) – Adhitya Sreenivasan

Individual Events:

Computer Applications:
5th place – Vinh Ton

Computer Science:
1st place – Arka Majumdar

Students from McNeil who placed high positions were put into a first place team for that category. Students got to pick a category of their preference to compete in and whether they wanted to compete in an individual event or a team event.
Senior Samagra Jain, who placed third in the science category, said he chose to compete in science because it was his best subject.
“It was nice being able to use the theoretical knowledge you get in school in practical applications,” Jain said. “There were challenges such as having to draw material from all my science classes to solve just one problem but it was fun and competitive at the same time.”