About 200 students from 13 area middle schools, including students from Gallatin and Pattonsburg, visited the Northwest campus on Feb. 3, in order to participate in the Missouri Region I Junior High Science Olympiad.
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The top four teams – Plattsburg, Chillicothe, Stanberry and Gallatin – will now advance to the state Science Olympiad scheduled to take place in Columbia in late April.
Members from Gallatin are: Courtney Warford, Jamie Brinnen, Kevin Corwin, Tyler Avriette, Josh McLey, Chris Little, Bradley Barton, Kaitlyn Wilson, Breanne Brammer, Kaymon Witt, Len Deutschman, Abbey Ray and Monica Hanson. Members from Pattonsburg are: Lindsey Lambert, Katie Bell, Rachel Hopkins, Samantha Moore, Justin Conover, and Scott Conover.
Teams of students from each school took part in 23 events and used their knowledge of science to – among other things – build and test gliders, accurately shoot homemade trebuchets (a kind of catapult) and solve crime scenarios.
Contests took place in the Garrett-Strong Science Building and Horace Mann Laboratory School gymnasium. An awards ceremony followed in the J.W. Jones Student Union Ballroom.
Nineteen Northwest faculty members and dozens of University students from the departments of biological sciences, chemistry and physics, geology and geography and mathematics and statistics served as judges and otherwise assisted with the event.