RE's Academic Teams provide students the opportunity to learn and practice the skills needed to compete in National Academic Quiz Tournaments (NAQT) and history tournaments. The competitions cover a wide variety of topics including history, mathematics, science, social sciences, the arts, religion and more. RE fields a junior varsity team made up of freshmen and sophomores, and a varsity squad for upperclassmen. Students practice after school and compete in local, regional and national tournaments.
RE's national champion middle school academic team of Parker Jelke '27, Lucas Gonzalez '27 and Jaz Puri '28 earned the silver medal at the 5th International History Olympiad Championship in Rome in July, finishing second in the world to a team representing Asia.
Members of RE's Academic Team scored more than 20 top-10 finishes in a variety of national academic competitions in Arlington, Va., April 27-30. The most notable successes: RE's team of Leo Fein '23, Daniel Figueroa '24, Parker Jelke '27, Jonathan Pollak '23, Isabel Chong '24 and Mikey Zoi '24 won third place for the second straight year in the National History Bowl as the JV team of Chase Dubovy '25, Jaz Puri '28, Jacob Aronow '26, Charlie Reizenstein '26 and Nicholas Juhasz '26 finished in ninth place in the JV bowl. Fein also won fifth place in the varsity National History Bee as Jelke claimed fourth in the JV National History Bee.
Ransom Everglades students swept the top three places in every division of the South Florida Regional Finals of the National History Bee and International Geography Bee, both of which took place at Ransom Everglades on March 5. Parker Jelke '27 earned first place in the eighth-grade division of both events; Jaz Puri '28 earned first place in the seventh-grade division of both, and Noah Veras '29 earned first place in the sixth-grade division of both.
Ransom Everglades teams won the South Florida History Bowl varsity and JV competitions held at the upper school on Jan. 21, with Leo Fein '23, Max Weisenfeld '23, Jack Touby '23 and Jonathan Pollak '23 earning first place in the varsity event and the middle school team of Lucas Gonzalez '27, Parker Jelke '27, Zach Corbin Cheah '27 and Jaz Puri '28 topping teams of ninth and 10th graders in the junior varsity event.
Ransom Everglades' Middle School History Team A – Parker Jelke '27, Zach Corbin-Cheah '27, Lucas Gonzalez '27 and Jaz Puri '28 – claimed first place in the South Florida History Bowl and Bee Nov. 12 at Archimedean Academy. The team accrued a 6-0 record in the middle school bowl competition on its way to the title.
Parker Jelke '27 finished first in his age group in the National History Bee for the second straight year as he and teammates Zach Corbin Cheah '27, Lucas Gonzalez '27 and Jaz Puri '28 also claimed third place in the National History Bowl in Orlando June 17-20. Their efforts led a host of impressive performances, including a first place in the written exam on cartography by Jacob Aronow '26.
RE’s varsity and JV academic teams won third place in the National History Bowl in their respective divisions, and Javier Kumar ’22 won first place in the U.S. History Bee, leading Ransom Everglades at the International Academic Competitions National Championships April 21-24 in Arlington, Va.
Ransom Everglades’ teams swept the team and individual events at the South Florida Regional History Bowl and Bee on March 5 at Ransom Everglades – a total of four RE teams and six individuals earned podium finishes, led by the first-place varsity and junior varsity teams.
Ransom Everglades swept the 2022 South Florida Winter History Bee and Bowl January 22, winning the varsity and junior varsity bowls and the varsity and JV bees as an RE middle school team finished second in the JV (high school) bowl. Under the direction of RE coaches Joe Mauro, Branly Fontaine and Abby Berler, RE students won a total of seven top-three medals at annual competition at the upper school.
Ransom Everglades swept the 2021 South Florida Fall History Bee and Bowl on November 13, winning all four events: the varsity and junior varsity bowls (team) and bees (individual). Leo Fein ’23 won the varsity bee and helped RE’s varsity team to first place in the varsity bowl as Daniel Figueroa ’24 won the JV bee and helped RE’s junior varsity team to first in the JV bowl.
Founded in 1903, Ransom Everglades School is a coeducational, college preparatory day school for grades 6 - 12 located on two campuses in Coconut Grove, Florida. Ransom Everglades School produces graduates who "believe that they are in the world not so much for what they can get out of it as for what they can put into it." The school provides rigorous college preparation that promotes the student's sense of identity, community, personal integrity and values for a productive and satisfying life, and prepares the student to lead and to contribute to society.