Photo: Silver High School Science Olympiad Team
This past weekend, in Socorro NM, 25 teams from around the state competed in the annual Science Olympiad. Silver High School earned a spot to compete by finishing second at their regional event at WNMU in January. The team consisted of 15 students who battled it out in 23 events to have the bragging rights to be known as the brightest students in the state.
Silver came away with 15 top ten finishes earning 30 medals and placed 8th as a team.
Individual results are:
Anatomy and Physiology-8th place Emily Streams and Danni Gough
Boomilever- 5th place Emily Stone and Lucas Garcia
Bungee Drop-6th place Chris Billings and Lindsey Ashinhurst
Chemistry Lab-6th place Mike Chu and Alyssa Shanley Lente
Compound Machines-7th place Andrew Scott and Catherine Lucero
Disease Detectives- 9th place Emily Streams and Danni Gough
Entomology-7th place Emily Streams and Danni Gough
Forensics-9th place Mike Chu and Sirus Mrazik
Geologic Mapping 8th place Gabe Partido and Josh Saari
MagLev 7th place Gabe Partido and Chris Billings
Mission Possible-9th place Andrew Scott and Lindsey Ashinhurst
Scrambler-4th place Emily Stone and Alyssa Shanley Lente
Photo: Emily Stone (left) and Alyssa Shanley Lente (right)
Technical Problem Solving-9th place Chris Billings and Mike Chu
Water Quality-5th place Danni Gough and Billie Thomas
Write it Do it-8th place Emily Streams and Emily Stone
The schools placing in the top ten in the Science Olympiad in the State were:
- Albuquerque Area Home Schools
- ABQ Academy
- Socorro
- La Cueva
- Lovington
- NMMI
- Las Cruces
- Silver High School
- Hobbs and Cloudcroft tied for 9th place