Bragging Rights

2022-2023 Achievements

Ranked #1 in the University of Iowa Belin-Blank Center 2022 AP Index
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#1 Best K-12 Private School in Iowa (Niche.com)
- Top 5% Private K-12 Schools Nationally
#1 Best Private High School in Iowa (Niche.com)
- Top 5% Private High Schools Nationally
#1 Best Boarding School in Iowa (Niche.com)
- Top 16% Best Boarding School Nationally
#2 Best Iowa High School – STEM (Niche.com)
- Top 10% Best High School for STEM Nationally
#2 Most Diverse Iowa School (Niche.com)
- Top 4% Most Diverse Private High Schools Nationally

Maharishi School Robotics Team advances to FIRST Robotics Super Qualifier

Maharishi School Coral Reading Performance selected for the Iowa High School Speech Association All-State Festival

2021-2022 Achievements

Ranked #1 Iowa High School – STEM for 2022 by Niche.com, as well as #1 Most Diverse Private High School, #1 K-12 Private School in Iowa, #1 Private Iowa School and #1 Boarding School in Iowa. Top 6% Private Schools in the US

Destination Imagination advanced to International Competition achieving 7th Place in Global Finals in Kansas City, MO
Rocketry team qualified for Team America Rocketry Challenge Nationals (TARC)
Choral Reading entry (6 students) earns the honor of performing at the Iowa High School Speech Association (IHSSA) All-State Large Group Festival
All four of our entries earned First Place championships in their categories at the Hawkeye State Science and Engineering Fair
Junior Ishita Mukadam advanced to INTEL International Science & Engineering Fair (ISEF) in Atlanta, GA.
Both boys and girls tennis teams advanced to their district events
6th Grade student scored in the 90th percentile compared with all students grades 6-8 in the Middle School Math Counts competition.
Robotics team advances to Super-Qualifier in the FIRST Robotics competition
Many middle and upper school students invested community service hours in the Interact Club of Rotary International
Junior Polo Altynski-Ross published his book, The Polish Prince, from the memoirs of his grandfather, Zbigniew Janczewski.
Alumna Shristi Sharma (Class of 2021) earned the prestigious Robertson Scholars Leadership Program full scholarship to attend the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and Duke University. She also won a national poetry competition and $5000 from the publication Brown Girl and presented twice to dignitaries in Washington, D.C. And she is advocating for immigration policy reform for “Documented Dreamers” like herself who have grown up in the US with legal status, but could be deported at age 21 unless the law changes. She has met several Congressional leaders and is featured in related media.

2020-2021 Achievements

Ranked #1 Best Private High School in Iowa for 2021 by Niche.com, as well as #1 most diverse Private High School, #1 K-12 Private School in Iowa, Best College Prep Private High School, and Best Boarding School
Rocketry team qualified for Team America Rocketry Challenge Nationals and was one of five finalists nationally in the Presentation competition
Sophomore Blake Jarmosco named to the Southeast Iowa All-Conference soccer team
Senior Shristi Sharma Hawkeye State Science and Engineering Fair Champion, Intel International Science & Engineering Fair participant
State Tennis Singles Qualifier, Lily Fenton, ties for 9th place in competition in Waterloo
On Campus COVID testing at our lab all year to protect students, staff and faculty for PCR results in 24 hours

2019-2020 Achievements

Ranked #1 Best Private High School in Iowa for 2020 by Niche.com, as well as #1 most diverse Private High School, #1 K-12 Private School in Iowa, Best College Prep Private High School, and Best Boarding School
Completed 2019-2020 academic year with required classes and attendance for online learning in 4th quarter as one of the only 2% of Iowa schools continuing education excellence during the COVID pandemic
Questbridge Scholarship awarded a 4-year full scholarship to Princeton University to our graduate Yenet Tafeese
Pulse, posture, pranayama instruction course
Pioneer Pride houses: Adventurers, Innovators, Trailblazers, Visionaries

2018-2019 Achievements

Ranked #1 Best Private High School in Iowa for 2019 by Niche.com, as well as #1 most diverse Private High School, #1 K-12 Private School in Iowa, Best College Prep Private High School, and Best Boarding School
Six teams competed at the 2019 DestiNation Imagination Global Finals competition in Kansas City.
In rocketry, we qualified for the Team America Rocketry Competition (TARC)
Senior Pranav Chhaliyil was selected as an Intel International Science & Engineering Fair Finalist
Sophomore Shristi Sharma received 1st place at the University of Iowa Hackathon
We opened our on-campus residential hall for domestic and international students
Introduced Positive Discipline and 3R’s sexuality education curriculum workshop and implementation
Expanded to added new AP courses including : AP English Language, AP US History, AP Physics, AP calculus, and AP Computer Science

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2017-2018 Achievements

Two teams competed at the 2018 DestiNation Imagination Global Finals competition.
In rocketry, we received 7th and 10th place, at the Team America Rocketry Competition (out of more than 800 teams) and the only school to place 2 teams in the top 10.
Also in rocketry, Maharishi School was one of 14 High Schools invited to participate in the NASA Student Launch Program; NASA Student Launch Program: #2 – Project Outreach category
In tennis, we received several honors: 2018 District Triple Crown Winners, 2018 Team State Runner-up, and 2018 Doubles State Runner-up (Kai Vessey and Devan Burke)
EISEF: Honorable Mention, Senior; and Inspiring Excellence: Alan B. Adams Meritorious Achievement
Jay Coplea, selected as an IHSSA Individual All-State Performer: Literary Program
Shristi Sharma, State Science and Technology Fair, 2018: 1) Intel International Science and Engineering Fair Trip Award, Student Observer, 2) 1st Place in the Computer Science category, 3) Intel Excellence in Computer Science and $200 cash award.

Pranav Chhalliyil received several awards: Intel Regeneron 2018 Nominee, named Biotechnology Institute STEM Ambassador
Launched GIFTS Charcoal company and product line, National Junior Science and Humanities Symposium Finalist
Best In Vitro Biology Project, Iowa State Science Fair
3rd Place Iowa Junior Science and Humanities Symposium (first time in Maharishi School), and 3rd Place Microbiology, Iowa State Science Fair
Rick Rudloff’s, a Maharishi School rocketry teacher, received the Outstanding Advisor of the Year (TARC).
24/7 Wall Street ranks Maharishi School as the #1 best Private School in Iowa.

2016-2017 Achievements

Ranked #2 best private high school in Iowa by Niche.com, as well as #1 best private high school for diversity.
In creative problem solving, 1st Place at DestiNation Imagination Global Finals. Alista Wikle, Philip Winer, Loreena Hansen, Drew Schoenfeld, and Caleb Mullenneaux won the first place at the international level of the DestiNation Imagination competition, as well as the Da Vinci Award for outstanding creativity.
In rocketry, 4th place at Team America Rocketry Challenge. The Rocketry Team, including Wayne Li, Bridgit Bianco, Miles Falk, and Karthik Vempati, finished 4th out of 823 teams at the national competition in Huntsville, Alabama.

In scientific research, finalist at the INTEL International Science and Engineering Fair and 3rd place in Microbiology division. Pranav Chhalliyil was also named Finalist and National winner of the Global Healthcare Challenge at the International BioGENEius Challenge 2017; won the International BioGENEius GENEPool Competition; named Honorary Grand Champion of the 2017 Iowa State Science and Technology Fair.
In tennis, 2nd place at Iowa State Singles Tennis. Kai Vessey won second place in the Iowa State Singles Tennis Competition and the Pioneer team won the Class 1A Triple Crown District Championship (Singles, Doubles, and Team).
In computer science, Middle School Winner. Shristi Sharma won the Eastern Iowa Science and Engineering Fair 2017 as well as a Broadcom Masters Outstanding Achievement Award.
Each of our graduating students is off to a running start, attending universities and colleges such as George Washington University, Penn State, St. Olaf College, Otis College of Art and Design, California State – Long Beach, University of Glasgow, University of Indiana, and University of Iowa Honors Program.

2015-2016 Achievements

Pranav Chhalliyil won the State Science Fair Grand Championship as a 9th grader, the youngest in state history, and won 4th place at the International INTEL Science and Engineering Fair. He studied the relative effectiveness of three different methods of traditional oral hygiene.
The team of Anna Unger and Devan Burke won the State Champion Critic’s Choice banner in Musical Theatre, our 18th championship in drama and our first in this category.
We won our first awards in Iowa High School Musical Theatre program, with three participants in the All-State performance in Des Moines.
In the creativity competition Destination Imagination, seven Maharishi School teams won state championship awards in their division, qualifying them for the international competition. At the Global Finals, teams placed 7th and 17th.
The Rocketry Team finished 112th out of 789 entries in the largest national competition.
In track, Ross Emmanuel earned 2nd place in the State 800 meter and Distance Medley events, and 5th in the 400-meter run in which he set our School record.
The Boys’ Tennis team finished in the Top 8 in Iowa, with Chandre Morales earning 3rd Place in State Singles and Kai Vessey and Daniel Zhu earning 3rd Place in State Doubles.
We successfully expanded Project-Based Learning with many creative projects: entrepreneurship, rocketry, video production, ceramics, culinary arts, food blogs, app design, experimental music and songwriting, individual projects, and more. These projects had real-world applications and specific products that were shared in our quarterly Showcase events.
Graduating students have been accepted at 35 colleges across the US, including Rensselaer Polytech, UC-Irvine, UC-Santa Barbara, Washington U, Academy of Art in San Francisco, Sarah Lawrence, Maryland Institute, Arcadia, South Dakota, Purdue, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Achievements Over Our 30-year History

University Admissions

Over 96% accepted at accredited universities, including Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Johns Hopkins, Wellesley, University of California at Berkley

18 National Merit® Scholars (highest academic honor for top 1% of national entrants)

Twice the national average over the last 30 years
Over 100 Finalists, Semifinalists, and Commended Scholars

Science

Iowa Science & Engineering Fairs: 47 state champions, multiple special awards
Multiple National and International Awards at prestigious competitions including: International Intel Science and Engineering Fair, International Sustainable World Energy Engineering Environment Project Olympiad, National Junior Science and Humanities Symposium, American Junior Academy of Science
2017 4^thin US at Team American Rocketry Competition
2010 Robotics State Champion in first year of competition

Math

Four times 1st Place in the American High School Math Exam
1st in Iowa, Mathematical Association of America

Destination ImagiNation (international creative problem-solving competition)/Odyssey of the Mind

60 state champions, 7 Global Finals 1st Place winners, 35 other Top Ten awards, most wins in the state, 2000-2017

Speech (Drama)

18 state championships

Visual Arts

39 selected for Photography International Educational Association, 2001-2011
24 selected for the Iowa Congressional Art Competition and displayed in the US Capitol, 2001-2011
200 Iowa Super Conference Art Competition awards, 1993-2015

Poetry

2010: State Champion 1st Place from over 200 submissions
2011: Honorable Mention

Tennis

18 boys and girls state champions: 8 singles, 5 doubles, and 4 team; Triple Crown sweep
2009 United States Professional Tennis Association National High School Tennis Coach of the Year

Golf

Two boys state champions (individual and team)

Track and Field

Track and Field: Two boys state champions (long jump and 800 meters)

Soccer

Boys’ soccer: 2010 League Champions

Bragging Rights

2022-2023 Achievements

2021-2022 Achievements

2020-2021 Achievements

2019-2020 Achievements

2018-2019 Achievements

2017-2018 Achievements

2016-2017 Achievements

2015-2016 Achievements

Achievements Over Our 30-year History

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