On Saturday, April 25th, both the WASHS and WAMS Science Olympiad teams competed in the PA State Science Olympiad Tournament against the other 35 qualifying school districts at Penn State, Altoona Campus. It was a day filled with highly advanced competition across all areas of science, technology and engineering with a total of 46 different events taking place for students from 6th to 12th grade.
The WAMS team earned medals in the following four events, with Brody Hill, Cade Burgan and Aiden Guo medaling in TWO events!
Anatomy and Physiology - 6th place - Aiden Guo and Nathan Lininger
Circuit Lab - 8th place - Brody Hill and Cade Burgan
Solar System - 10 th place - Brody Hill and Cade Burgan
Experimental Design - 10th place - Aiden Guo, Gabriella Curry, Tara Dulaney
The WASHS team did not earn any medals in their inaugural trip to states, but the following four teams did very well:
Dynamic Planet - 13th - Will Stein and Izzy Bupp
Anatomy and Physiology - 14th - Maycie Bitner and Brenna Hollingsworth
Codebusters - 14th - Jayden Guo, Caiden Shacreaw, Jonathan Pan
Designer Genes - 15th - Nevaeh Debrick and Maycie Bitner