Monday, March 18, 2013

Middle School Science Olympiad Team

Middle School Science 2012-2013 Olympiad Team
 
On Saturday, March 2 the Middle School Science Olympiad team competed in the Lower Hudson Valley competition at Scarsdale Middle School. Congratulations to all the team members and their coach, 8th Grade Team Leader Jean Windels.

Anton and Zip are pleased with their medal win in the "Mission Possible" - competition in which they had to design and build a "Rube Goldberg device

Kenny and David with their flying helicopter.

Kenny and Michael snagged a first place medal for their performance in the "Dynamic Planet" event in which they answered questions about glaciers.

Buz and Emmet won a medal for the "Helicopter Egg Drop" event, in which the students had to design a device that could drop an egg from a height of 8 meters without breaking the egg.

Michael and Jason received second place medals for the "Road Scholar" event in which they were required to read and answer detailed questions about the information present on a road map and a topographic map.

Sasha and Kirsten also won medals for the "Helicopter Egg Drop" event.

Kenny and Michael agreed to pose for this picture to display the back of the team "uniform" T-shirts.

Kenny and David in the process of flying their helicopter.


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