The Frazer School Physics Team recently earned the highest score in both the U.S. and the world in the 2025 AAPT Physics Bowl.

According to a Frazer School press release, students take a 40-question, 45-minute physics test in the competition and then the five highest scores from each school are added together to make the team scores.

The team included senior Vijay Hans and juniors Aditya Raavi, Michael Wei and Anish Patel and eighth grader Edwin Gao.

“An accomplishment like this takes years of work,” said Frazer School physics teacher and team coach Marc Moody. “Physics is very challenging, and it is easy to get frustrated when the answers don’t just come to you right away. Most of these kids have been studying physics for four years or more and I am incredibly proud of their determination and of their achievements.”

The AAPT, the organization responsible for choosing the USA Physics Olympiad team, hosts the Physics Bowl. Only Americans are allowed to participate in the USA Physics Olympiad, so they host the Physics Bowl for any pre-collegiate students in the world.

This year, there were 12,275 students taking the exam representing more than 1,000 teams from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Cambodia, China, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Republic of Korea, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, Vietnam, and the United States, according to Physics Bowl Academic Coordinator Jon Anderson.