The Allen
County-Scottsville High School Science Olympiad team won the Western Kentucky Regional on
Saturday---the program’s 13th title in the past 14 years. AC-S defeated teams
from Greenwood, Bowling Green, Hopkinsville, Henderson, and Marshall
County.
Gold
Medalists included Colby LaFitte and Harris Gregory in Forensics, Ethan Miller
and Madison Whittle in Helicopters, Jason Sikes and Rachel Foster in Rocks and
Minerals, Tayte Hawkins and Tyler Hunt in Game On, Chuck Boucher and Colton
Barton in Ecology, Ethan Miller and Renee Hewitt in Mousetrap Vehicle, Tayte
Hawkins and Felicia Hawkins in Mission Possible, Jason Sikes and Chuck Boucher
in Towers, Ethan Miller and Tyler Hunt in Chemistry Lab, and Sarah Hartman and
Tori Langman in Optics.
Silver
medalists were Jerica Eaton and Renee Hewitt in Hovercraft, Tyler Hunt and
Isabella Jones in Disease Detectives, Katherine Foster and Sarah Hartman in
Chemistry Lab, Katherine Foster and Tori Langman in Forensics, and Billy Lim
and Zach Ansley in Mousetrap Vehicle.
Bronze
medalists included Chuck Boucher and Jackson Montgomery in Astronomy, Madison
Whittle and Rachel Foster in Write It Do It, Colby LaFitte and Jason Sikes in
Fermi Questions, Jerica Eaton and Tyler Hunt in Herpetology, Ethan Miller and
Jackson Montgomery in Thermodynamics, Felicia Hawkins and Madison Whittle in
Optics, Rachel Foster and Tayte Hawkins in Remote Sensing, Ava Noe and Kierra
Owens in Hovercraft, and Sarah Hartman in Microbe Mission.
The Science Olympiad team would like to thank
the faculty of AC-SH for their instruction of problem solving, writing,
reading, building, coding, math and science.
The team will advance to
state competition next month at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green.