On Saturday, April 1st, students from both Menomonie Middle School and High School participated in the 2023 State Science Olympiad Competition at UW-Milwaukee. Both teams had an outstanding day with the middle school varsity team finishing 2nd out of 48 teams and the high school varsity team finishing 3rd out of 56 teams.
Science Olympiad is a competition in which teams compete in events pertaining to various fields of science. Events fall into five main categories: Life, Personal, and Social Science, Earth & Space Science, Physical Science & Chemistry, Technology & Engineering, Inquiry & Nature of Science. They are either knowledge-based, hands-on, or engineering-based.
The Menomonie Middle School team is coached by MHS teacher Natalie Topper, and MMS teachers Amy Zuber-Seguin and Rachel Scott. The high school team is coached by MHS teachers Bill Dingwall, Michele Huppert, and Jesse Weinberger.
Congratulations to both teams on representing Menomonie so well!
Middle School Medalists
1st place
Oliver Lugo and Jai Hasse - Rocks and Minerals
Mathew Snavely and Jai Hasse - Write it Do it
Mathew Snavely and Nora Trotter - Road Scholar
2nd place
Oliver Lugo, Emily Hoyland, and Noah Winder - Codebusters
Oliver Lugo and Mathew Snavely - Fast Facts
Eleanor Beck and Ellie Moulder - Horticulture
Carly Weber and Andrew Heckendorf - Meteorology
3rd place
Mathew Snavely and Tim Berends - Bridge
Nora Skorczewski and Andrew Heckendorf - Disease Detectives
Oliver Lugo, Emily Hoyland, and Noah Winder - Experimental Design
Nora Skorczewski and Eleanor Beck - Virology
Tim Berends and Otis Yonko - Wheeled Vehicle
4th place
Jai Hasse and Otis Yonko - Can't Judge a Powder Nora Skorczewski and Carly Weber - Dynamic Planet
Logan Topper, Noah Winder, Tim Berends - Picture This
Ellie Moulder and Alex Heckendorf - Sounds of Music
Logan Topper and Noah Winder - Storm the Castle
5th place
Emily Hoyland and Ellie Moulder - Crime Busters
Alex and Andrew Heckendorf - Flight
Nora Trotter and Jai Hasse - Forestry
6th place
Eleanor Beck and Andrew Heckendorf - Anatomy and Physiology
Logan Topper and Otis Yonko - Crave the Wave
Otis Yonko and Nora Trotter - Green Generation
The middle school was able to take JV team to the state competition as well. Members of that team that earned medals are Mia Osterhaus, Ethan Nyirongo Brianna Klimek, James Kong, Seth Ray, Sydney Norby, Toni Fiorani, Carly Zack, Oliver Kerze, Ryan Hulbert, and Ella Weinberger.
High School Medalists
1st place:
Damian Gray and Grant Burns - Dynamic Planet
2nd place:
Grant Burns & Am Liu - Cell Biology
Sam Seguin & David Ding - Remote Sensing
Damian Gray & Chance Gundlach - Rocks & Minerals
3rd place:
Hayleigh Husby & Kajsiab Xiong - Disease Detectives
Sam Seguin & Zeke Stauffer - Environmental Chemistry
Kajsiab Xiong & Ben Seguin - Forensics
Grant Burns & Anna Imsande - Geocaching
Peter Bendel & Damian Gray - It's About Time
Amy Liu & Hayleigh Husby - Precision Medicine
4th place:
Amy Liu & Grant Burns - Virology
Anne Dye & Anna Imsande - Write It Do It
5th place:
Peter Bendel & Sam Seguin - Astronomy
Peter Bendel, Emmett Ogden & Ben Seguin - Codebusters
Peter Bendel & Emmett Ogden - Fermi Questions
David Ding & Amy Liu - Robocross
6th place:
Anne Dye & Grant Burns - Anatomy & Physiology
David Ding & Peter Bendel - Detector Building
Sam Seguin & Emmett Ogden - Green Generation
