Science Olympiad to contend at Regional competition
February 27, 2009
By Lauren Burdick
<lburdick@hilite.org>
On Feb. 28, the Science Olympiad team will compete in the Regional competition at Butler University against nine to twelve other schools from the area.
Team sponsor Fran Rushing said, “All (the team members are) excited and wound up about it.”
The team has been practicing every Wednesday in preparation for the upcoming competitions, and according to Rushing, those practices have increased to include Saturday morning practices from 9 to noon.
Last year was Rushing’s first year as Head Coach of the team. She took over after the retirement of the Newmans, former science teachers at this school.
The team acquired enough members during the past school year to form two separate teams. One team is dominated by senior members and will compete at Butler. The other team consists mostly of freshmen, sophomores and juniors, and will travel to Indiana University Northwest in Gary.
At a Science Olympiad competition, there are 23 categories. The tests in each category are set up in a variety of ways, from paper and pencil tests to labs and building machines. After each event, the schools are judged and ranked, with the winning team receiving the lowest score.
This year, the team has an “egg-o-naut,” the idea of which is to launch an egg-carrying rocket into the air and have it successfully land without breaking the egg.
According to Rushing, after last year’s Regional competitions, 26 high schools competed in the State competition.
According to president and senior David Yang, who has been a member of the Science Olympiad team since his sophomore year, the team has special meaning to him. “I’ve always liked science, and I want to do something with science in my future. This is just a chance for me to explore other interests so that I’ve had a chance to do so.”
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REGIONAL COMPETITION EVENTS
- Astronomy
- Cell Biology
- Earth Science
- Ecology
- Electric Vehicle
- Engineering
- Environmental
- Chemistry
- Forensics
- Fossils
- Health Science
- Herpetology
- Physics
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