Science Olympiad

As promised, I am uploading some pictures taken from last week's Science Olympiad. I organized 10 events, of which students participated in 4. The favorites were Egg Drop (build a delivery system for an egg to protect it from cracking, with limited resources) and Bottle Rocket (design a plastic bottle to pressurize and blast into the air for as long as possible).

Chinese students from the school next door run in the background, as Storm the Castle competitors set up their catapult to launch.

These students will learn in chemistry class to not smell unknown chemicals so closely.

Safety goggles are in use for bottle rocket!

3 stories below is the target for Egg Drop.

Students work furiously in the math quiz bowl to get their answers in.

I think the kids had fun, and most of the feedback was positive. I was proud to see all the impressive-looking projects that they created. Almost none were disqualified - which was a huge improvement over last year, when they obviously did not read directions well enough.

Thankfully, I was supervising detention the past two weeks, so I had lots of help setting up/cleaning up thanks to this forced labor group.

-alan