Westhampton Beach High School Science Club members took home five Top 10 medals from the Science Olympiad competition held at Hauppauge High School on Jan. 31.

Led by science teacher Dianna Gobler, the Science Club members excelled in a variety of scientific challenges against 65 teams from across Long Island. Jaslinne Blanco and Charlotte O'Brien took second place in Disease Detectives; Matthew Hernandez and Annabelle Najdzion earned fourth place in the bungee drop and seventh in Remote Sensing; Aidyn Beebe-Edwards and Patrick Reilly placed eighth in Entomology; Aidyn Beebee-Edwards and Brady Schultz earned ninth in Disease Detectives; Brady Schultz and Alex Vaz took 11th in Chemistry; and Charlotte Campbell and Alex Vaz placed 13th in Materials Science.

This was only the second time Westhampton Beach has competed as a team. They first competed last year after Science Club founder and president Emma O’Came created the team.

Date Added: 2/9/2026