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Results, recognitions and announcements from Ardent students, from math olympiads and science fairs to college admissions.
Two years after starting research with no experience, Bradley built an AI system that grades coral bleaching and forecasts it twelve weeks ahead. It won a Grand Award in Earth and Environmental Sciences.
Read the article →Ten Ardent students were admitted to Stanford this year, and all ten have committed. Seven of them met Dr. and Mrs. Li at The CoHo during Admit Weekend.
Rene and Meghana, both Ardent Scholars, are among the 300 students named from 1,890 entrants in the 2025 Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge.
Fourteen Ardent students scored 15 or higher on the F=ma exam and advance to the USAPhO, the next round of the USA Physics Olympiad.
Ardent Counseling students in the Class of 2025 were admitted to 29 universities, including five Ivy League schools, Stanford, MIT, Caltech and six University of California campuses.
Five first places, two seconds, two thirds and two special awards, across both divisions and eleven categories from microbiology to alternative energy.
Thirty-three Ardent students earned invitations to the American Invitational Mathematics Examination, and fifteen reached the AMC 8 Honor Roll.
Nine Ardent students reached the USAPhO semifinal round in physics, and three reached the USABO semifinal in biology.
Nine first places across both divisions, and eight special awards from organizations including the Office of Naval Research and the American Chemical Society.
Fifty-nine Ardent students earned invitations to the American Invitational Mathematics Examination, and twenty-three reached the AMC 8 Honor Roll.
Ten first places and eleven special awards, in categories from botany to applied mechanics, with four Beckman Foundation Chapman Awards among them.
Fifty-five Ardent students earned invitations to the American Invitational Mathematics Examination.
Nineteen projects, from honey encryption to heart-cell models and microplastics in drinking water, won five first places and six special awards.
Eighty-four Ardent students earned invitations to the American Invitational Mathematics Examination, and thirty-one reached the AMC 8 Honor Roll.
Twenty-eight division awards, including five first places, and eight special awards from organizations including SPIE and the Beckman Foundation.
Benjamin scored a perfect 150 on the AMC 10 and Andrew on the AMC 12, and fifty Ardent students qualified for the AIME.
Five first places and four special awards, won by students from sixth grade to tenth.
Six Ardent students earned the AMC 8 Honor Roll of Distinction and twenty-six the Honor Roll, and twenty-six received a Certificate of Achievement.