User:Luo

Luo is a 2013 graduate of Mounds View High School in Arden Hills, Minnesota, and a 2017 graduate of MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He competed for Mounds View at the Minnesota State Tournament in 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013. In 2011, 2012, and 2013, Mounds View won the State Tournament, and Luo competed with the team at the National Tournament in each of those three years. At the 2012 National Tournament in Orlando, Florida, Luo won his first national medal, a 6th place in Disease Detectives. He was national champion in Rocks & Minerals at the 2013 National Tournament in Dayton, Ohio.

Luo is especially proud to have overseen the renaissance of the Mounds View Science Olympiad team, which improved from 7th at the State Tournament his freshman year to 7th at the National Tournament his senior year.

In 2013, Luo co-founded [Science Olympiad at MIT], an MIT student organization that runs the annual MIT Science Olympiad Invitational Tournament. He served as director of the inaugural MIT Science Olympiad Invitational Tournament in January 2015.

2012-2013 (Senior)
2013 National Tournament Events and Placings: Astronomy (13th), Disease Detectives (7th), Rocks & Minerals (1st), Thermodynamics (7th) Team: 1st Place at Regional Tournament, 1st Place at State Tournament, 7th Place at National Tournament

2011-2012 (Junior)
2012 National Tournament Events and Placings: Astronomy (14th), Disease Detectives (6th), Forestry (24th), Rocks & Minerals (16th) Team: 1st Place at Regional Tournament, 1st Place at State Tournament, 22nd Place at National Tournament

2010-2011 (Sophomore)
2011 National Tournament Events and Placings: Astronomy (21st), Disease Detectives (17th), Dynamic Planet (27th) Team: 1st Place at Regional Tournament, 1st Place at State Tournament, 15th Place at National Tournament

2009-2010 (Freshman)
Team: 1st Place at Regional Tournament, 7th Place at State Tournament