{"id":14481,"date":"2026-05-06T21:17:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T21:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/frazer-school-students-qualify-for-u-s-olympiad-camps-mainstreet-daily-news-gainesville\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T21:17:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T21:17:53","slug":"frazer-school-students-qualify-for-u-s-olympiad-camps-mainstreet-daily-news-gainesville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/frazer-school-students-qualify-for-u-s-olympiad-camps-mainstreet-daily-news-gainesville\/","title":{"rendered":"Frazer School students qualify for U.S. Olympiad camps &#8211; Mainstreet Daily News Gainesville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two students from The Frazer School in Gainesville have&nbsp;earned invitations to two separate U.S. Olympiad camps this summer.&nbsp;<br \/>Ajay Sawant&nbsp;has qualified for&nbsp;the&nbsp;2026&nbsp;U.S.&nbsp;Biology Olympiad&nbsp;(USABO)&nbsp;National Finals&nbsp;camp, which will be held&nbsp;on&nbsp;June 21-July 2 at&nbsp;Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>According to a Frazer School press release, the USABO \u201cis the most prestigious individual biology competition for American high schoolers.\u201d&nbsp;More than&nbsp;10,000 biology students take the open exam, with&nbsp;roughly&nbsp;450&nbsp;continuing to the semifinals.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>Mainstreet does not have a paywall, but pavement-pounding journalism is not free. Join your neighbors who make this vital work possible.<br \/>Sawant passed the semifinal&nbsp;stage,&nbsp;becoming one of&nbsp;just&nbsp;20&nbsp;finalists&nbsp;nationwide&nbsp;\u2013 and the only student from Florida \u2013 to qualify for the USABO National Finals, the release said.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\u201cI am immensely proud of Ajay for this [accomplishment],\u201d&nbsp;Frazer School coach David Buffkin said in the release.&nbsp;\u201cHe devotes crazy amounts of time to improving himself&nbsp;and it clearly paid off. Not just for him: our bio presence has never been stronger in our team competitions as a result.&nbsp;It\u2019s&nbsp;hard to explain how impressive making USABO camp is.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>Based on the&nbsp;students\u2019&nbsp;results, four of the&nbsp;finalists&nbsp;will&nbsp;be&nbsp;chosen&nbsp;to&nbsp;represent&nbsp;the U.S.&nbsp;at&nbsp;the International Biology Olympiad&nbsp;on&nbsp;July 11-19 in&nbsp;Vilnius, Lithuania.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>Another Frazer School student, Eric Li, has qualified for the&nbsp;2026&nbsp;U.S. Earth Science Olympiad (USESO) Training Camp that will be held&nbsp;on&nbsp;June 13-21 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.&nbsp;<br \/>The release&nbsp;stated&nbsp;that&nbsp;USESO&nbsp;is like&nbsp;USABO, except that it deals with geological sciences.&nbsp;Only 40 students nationally qualify for the USESO Training Camp.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>According to the release, the list of&nbsp;40&nbsp;qualifying students has&nbsp;yet to be&nbsp;made public. Last year,&nbsp;no students from Florida qualified for the camp.&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\u201cOne camper is already impressive. Two campers in one year \u2013&nbsp;I&#8217;m&nbsp;smiling just thinking about it,\u201d Buffkin said.&nbsp;\u201cCongratulations, Eric, on this wonderful achievement.&nbsp;Here\u2019s&nbsp;hoping for team!\u201d&nbsp;<br \/>Principal Olanrewaju&nbsp;Fayiga&nbsp;said the future looks bright for both&nbsp;Sawant and Li.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>&#8220;Outside of making the United States Olympiad teams,&nbsp;this is the highest honor a student in their field can achieve,\u201d&nbsp;Fayiga&nbsp;said in the release.&nbsp;\u201cBoth of these&nbsp;students are&nbsp;relatively young,&nbsp;with Ajay currently in 10<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;grade and Eric currently in&nbsp;ninth&nbsp;grade. Their future looks very bright. 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