Ballston Spa High School Science Olympiad Team Competes

BALLSTON SPA — The 2014 Ballston Spa High School Science Olympiad team finished fifth out of 23 teams at the Regional Competition at the College of Saint Rose on Saturday, February 8. The team medaled in eight out of the 22 events. The Science Olympiad tournament is a rigorous, academic, interscholastic competition that consists of a series of individual and team events which the students prepare for throughout the year. The events are well-balanced between the various science disciplines of biology, earth science, chemistry, physics, computers and engineering. The team of 15 students competed in 22 events which range from the construction of a robot to college-level pen-and-paper assessments. Astronomy – Third Place (Tennyson Bardwell & Jake Hurtt) Bungee Drop – Third Place (Justin Moore & Jake Hurtt) Chemistry Lab – Third Place (Justin Moore & Sam Slocum) Elastic Launch Glider – First Place (Justin Moore & Sarah Beaudoin) Entomology – Third Place (Brittany Krause & Sabrina Molyneaux) Experimental Design – Third Place (Abagail Frederick, Marissa Woitkoski & Sabrina Molyneaux) Green Generation – Third Place (Michael Hosek & Sam Slocum) Write It/Do It – Third Place (Abagail Frederick & Alexa Rovetto)