The Allen County-Scottsville High School Science Olympiad team medaled in eight events Saturday at John Overton High
School in Nashville against seventeen of the top teams in Tennessee.
Medalists and their events (descriptions
from Science Olympiad website information) include, first place medals for Katherine
Foster and Billy Lim in Geologic Mapping---an event in which Foster and Lin demonstrated understanding in the construction
and use of topographic maps, geologic maps, and cross sections, and their use
in forming interpretations regarding subsurface structures and geo-hazard
risks. Rachel Foster and Colby
Lafitte placed first in Fossils---an event in which the team demonstrate their knowledge of ancient life by
completing selected tasks at a series of stations including but not limited to
fossil identification, answering questions about classification, habitat,
ecologic relationships, behaviors, environmental adaptations and the use of
fossils to date and correlate rock units.
Four
pairs of students earned second place medals. The medalists include Colton Barton and Allie Byrn in Water Quality (an event
in which participants
were assessed on their understanding and evaluation of aquatic environments), Brinley Swift and Allie Byrn in Boomilever (an event
in which teams design
and build a Boomilever meeting requirements specified in the rules supporting a
minimum load and to achieve the highest structural efficiency), Brayden Richer and Sarah Hartman in Sounds of
Music (an event in which teams
must construct and tune one device prior to the tournament based on a 12-tone
equal tempered scale and complete a written test on the physics of sound), and Colton Barton and Colby Lafitte in Mousetrap Vehicle
(The event where teams
design, build and test a vehicle using one or two snap mousetraps as its sole
means of propulsion to push a paper cup forward, reverse direction, and stop as
close as possible to a target point).
In
addition, Rachel Foster and Allie Byrn was
fourth in Write It-Do It (A
technical writing exercise where students write a description of a contraption
and other students will attempt to recreate it using only the written
description). Tori Langman and
Katherine Foster was fifth in Forensics (an event where students identify polymers, solids, fibers, and
other materials in a crime scenario).
The next scheduled competition is the
Regional Science Olympiad competition in March.