Published on March 26, 2024
Over this past weekend, the Science Olympiad team competed in the Regional Tournament held at Millersville University.
Science Olympiad is a national science, math, and technology competition. Teams in the program face off against other schools in their region, state, and country in various disciplines, from biology, chemistry, physical science, earth and space, geology, engineering, technology, and computer science. The Science Olympiad has multiple divisions, including elementary, middle, and high school programs. Each division has 23 unique and rotating events that students learn, collaborate on, specialize in, and ultimately compete within. The events themselves can be knowledge-based, skill-based, and lab-based in nature.
We currently have two Science Olympiad teams, a high school team, and a middle school team. The team coaches are Krista Roe, Sarah Martens, Lisa Hochreiter, and Lee Walter.
Middle School Team:
Nathan Anderson (7th), Kyra Brandt (7th), Anya Dwivedi (8th), Judah Hamilton (7th), Caleb Jerchau (8th), Neviah LaSala (8th), Emma Lovelock (7th), Cameron Martens (8th), Evan Rossi (7th), Andrea Smith (7th), and Amanda Speer (8th).
High School Team:
Trey Bergman (9th), Ian Boltz (9th), Meiryn Brady (9th), Ansh Dwivedi (11th), Daniel Hartman (9th), Auguste Johnson (9th), Johnny Kellogg (12th), Crystal Kirui (11th), Patryk Palmer (11th), Nick Rossi (10th), Eva Shiflet (9th), Rivers Smoker (9th), Rebekah Trovinger (12th), Maggie Turner (12th), Jacob Vance (12th), and Sage Wohlforth (9th).
The middle school team placed 12th out of 14 teams and the high school team placed 6th out of 26 teams. We received medals in the following categories:
MS Medals:
4th - Air Trajectory
4th - Optics
HS Medals:
1st - Write It Do It
3rd - Detector Builder
3rd - Fermi
4th - Experimental Design
4th - Robot Tour
4th - Scrambler
5th - Optics
5th - Wind Power
In each competition (regionals, states, and nationals), students compete in individual events (23 in total), in which they can earn medals based on their placements (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.). Teams also get a team score based on how students do in all of their events cumulatively. Based on these scores, teams can win trophies for their school and qualify for high-level competitions (like states and nationals).
The High School team qualified for states and they are excited for their upcoming competition on Saturday, April 27th at Penn State Altoona. Good luck!