Northshore Jr. High takes home first place at the Science Olympiad Regionals

Published 3:08 pm Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Around 15 Northshore Junior High students won first place at the Science Olympiad Regionals March 1 at Seattle Community College.

The team included:

Alex Nelson

Chris Wright

Ethan Huang

Evelyn Yang

Hafsa Khan

Jerry Cao

Kate Decker

Kyla Johnsen-Krough

Lauren McDonald

Liam Blakey

Margot Reynolds

Miles Goodner

Noah Drivdahl

Shawn Lee

Zarah Khan

The events involved creative thinking (switching a marimba to melody and a violin to harmony), perseverance (having 2 rubber bands and the rotor break during helicopter testing, which had to be repaired within their 8-minute testing window), new approaches (using an exercise band to power a wheeled vehicle) and mad dashes (a room with simple machines was moved to another floor and with only a few minutes to locate the room by searching for signs on every floor).