MS Science Olympiads Head to State Competition

After competing at Camden County College in the Regional Competition, the Middle School Science Olympiad Team is now preparing for the State competition held at Middlesex County College on March 10, 2015. The regional qualifier tested the 18-member team on 14 unique skill events. The events are designed to test and challenge the competitors in areas of science that would not typically be covered in the normal science curriculum. Events included Wheeled Vehicle, Solar System Road Scholar, Bridge Building and Bottle Rocket, to name a few. Having qualified for states, the competition intensifies.

The team has been perfecting its skills on the events it competed in during the January event, but is also now preparing to be tested in a total of 24 events. Many of the team members will be participating in three or four events on March 10, which has led many members to stay after school five days a week with Coaches Betty Williams, Madeleine McCarthy and Carol Ann Rofrano to build robots, bridges, bottle rockets, simple machines, wheeled vehicles, gliders and an air trajectory device. They have been learning and preparing study guides for Meteorology, Green Generation, Dynamic Planet, Entomology and Fossils, to name a few. With a week and a half left before the state competition, these middle school students will be giving their all to their team. Participation on the MS Science Olympiad Team requires a love of science, hard work and determination, say the coaches. Go Team!

The Middle School Science Olympiad team members and events are listed below:
• Paul Cantave – Meteorology, Wheeled Vehicle
• Jack Crilly – Air Trajectory, Picture This, Write it - Do it
• Sathya Edamadaka - Crave the Wave, Experimental Design, Robo-Cross
• Seth Marx – Can’t Judge a Powder, Crime Busters
• Ryan McCarthy – Bridge Building, Green Generation, Simple Machines, Mystery Architecture
• Ananya Pandey - Disease Detectives
• Katie Peardon – Solar System, Dynamic Planet, Fossils
• David Piskun – Entomology, Experimental Design, Simple Machines
• Aaryan Raval - Crime Busters, Entomology, Write it - Do it
• Justin Rinaldo – Bottle Rocket, Dynamic Planet
• Gaurav Sahgal – Bottle Rocket, Meteorology
• Alex Senderov – Bio-Process Lab, Elastic Launch Glider, Experimental Design
• Rohan Sharma – Road Scholar, Robo-Cross, Mystery Architecture, Wheeled Vehicle
• Rahul Sobti – Anatomy & Physiology, Bio-Process Lab, Disease Detectives
• Fabio Tessiore - Bridge Building, Green Generation, Crave the Wave
• Shrish Vaidyaselvan – Elastic Launch Glider, Fossils, Picture This, Solar System
• Adam Weiss – Air Trajectory, Can’t Judge a Powder
• Brandan Whiteman – Anatomy & Physiology, Picture This, Road Scholar

Read also about our Lower School division’s work with science and engineering projects.