High Tech

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High Tech
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Location:
Lincroft, NJ
Coaches Raymond Eng
State Championships NAQT: 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018
National Championships None
National Appearances HSNCT: 2012-2019
PACE:2013-2019
NAC: 2012
Program Status Active
School Size 286
NAQT Page link

High Technology High School, frequently abbreviated High Tech, is a magnet school in Lincroft, New Jersey that draws from students across Monmouth County. It rose to regional prominence in the early 2010s. They are a notable pyramidal team that stopped playing in Chip Beall's National Academic Championship and transitioned to good quizbowl in 2012 under the leadership of Grace Liu. High Tech A finished 5th place at PACE NSC in 2014, 4th in 2015, and 5th in 2019. High Tech has won the last six NAQT New Jersey State Championships in a row.

Current Players

  • Deepak Gopalakrishnan
  • Frank Grabowski
  • Samuel Hampel
  • Karen Li
  • Selena Liu
  • Alex Wu

Notable alumni

  • Grace Liu - Class of 2012 - Yale
  • Kevin Zhou - Class of 2013
  • David Wong - Class of 2013
  • Lukas Vlahos - Class of 2013
  • Sean McBride - Class of 2014 - Cornell
  • Patrick LeBlanc - Class of 2014
  • Srishti Srivastava - Class of 2014
  • Rohan Kodialam - Class of 2015
  • Adithya Kannan - Class of 2015
  • Julian Gau - Class of 2015
  • Sharan Kumar - Class of 2015
  • Andrew Huang - Class of 2016
  • Kathryn Jiang - Class of 2016
  • Ray Zeng - Class of 2016
  • Samuel Kao - Class of 2017
  • Anjali Nambrath - Class of 2017
  • Douglas Simons - Class of 2018 - NYU
  • Michael Li - Class of 2019 - Brown
  • Steven Liu - Class of 2019 - MIT
  • Darren Petrosino - Class of 2019 - Rutgers
  • Cole Snedeker - Class of 2019 - Yale
  • Adrian Thamburaj - Class of 2019 - Rutgers
  • Ivy Wang - Class of 2019 - Princeton
  • Eric Zheng - Class of 2019 - Carnegie Mellon