For the last few years, Division Avenue High School in the Levittown School District has flirted with winning the annual Long Island Physics Olympics held at SUNY Stony Brook. Finishing in the top three out of more than a dozen competing schools each year is an accomplishment in itself.

But this year - the 20th Anniversary of the challenging contest - the Division Avenue contingent finally reached its goal of earning the top prize by collecting the highest aggregate score for the five separate events. Those included "Fermi Questions" in which teams working without calculators have 10 minutes to negotiate seemingly impossible problems like the number of frames in a full feature film and the surface area of oceans and a quiz game called the "Physics Bowl" Division finished first in two events, including the Fermi round, third in another and within the top for the remaining two.

"I think this is representative of the hard work students at Division High School routinely put into their studies and their quest to succeed," Principal Dr. Harry L. Chertok says. "Given the opportunity, the achievements they are capable of producing are boundless," he adds.