four classes of students. Construction continued on campus during this time, with the theater and the main gym becoming available in 1977, the football-track field in 1978 and the aquatic center in 1979. The first class graduated in June, 1979. The campus itself is notable for its architecture. It was designed by architect Ron D. Young in the Brutalist architecture style, and built largely of tilt up concrete slabs featuring distinctive cast geometric inlays. The shapes and angles of floor plans and design motifs were based on the hexagon. The initial layout of the Humanities building envisioned two or three teachers and their respective students sharing a single open plan hexagonal room, but this quickly proved too distracting. Portable office dividers were placed in a line to define classroom boundaries, but noise was still a problem. After two years of such conditions, walls were erected to close off the large, open hexagons. Academic teams Irvine High has several distinguished academic teams. The Science Olympiad team placed first in Orange County and third in California in the 1986-1987 Science Olympiad competitions, and second in Orange County and fourth in Southern California in the 2010–2011 Science Olympiad competitions. In the American Chemical Society National Chemistry Olympiad, Irvine High School students qualified as national finalists by placing in the top twenty of the nation in 1986 (You Chun Yang), 1991 (Navin Jani), and 1992 (Ashish Kalthia), sending them to the U.S. Air Force Academy Study Camp to prepare for competition in the International Chemistry Olympiad. At the time, Irvine High School was the only high school in the nation to have had three different students qualify as finalists. The Quiz Bowl team, begun in the 2010–2011 school year, informally ranked in the top 15 schools in Southern California that season. It tied for second in the regular division of the Triton Spring Quiz Bowl Competition. In the 2011–12 season, the Irvine Team placed sixth place at the UCSD Triton Fall Tournament, qualifying them for the 2012 PACE NSC Quiz Bowl Tournament in St. Louis. Irvine's newspaper, the El Vaquero, is regarded as the best high school newspaper publication in the nation, having won the first place prize in 2014.Irvine High School is also a founding high school in the Irvine CubeSat STEM Program, and is in charge of developing and working on microsatellite propulsion methods. Notable alumni Eric Anderson (1972–), musical theatre actor