The Carl Sandburg Science Olympiad Team ranked 12th out of 29 schools at the Virginia State Science Olympiad Tournament on Saturday, April 14, at Westfield High School in Chantilly.
CSMS Science Olympiad team has been training since October 2011. Each team member competed in three or four events at the State Tournament.
Several CSMS Science Olympiad Team members scored in the top 10 in their events:
Sean Franklin - 3rd Place Disease Detective and 5th Place Road Scholar
Will Shute - 3rd Place Disease Detective and 10th Place MouseTrap Vehicle
Nate Foss - 5th Place Mission Possible; 9th Place Dynamic Planet; 10th Place Mystery Architecture
Phoebe Otchere - 5th Place Mission Possible
Nathan Alam - 5th Place Road Scholar; 7th Place Anatomy
Sam Dubke - 7th Place Anatomy; 10th Place MouseTrap Vehicle
Nicole Freewalt - 8th Place Metric Mastery
Jackson Kosmacki - 8th Place Metric Mastery
Jessica Masterson - 9th Place Dynamic Planet
Tyler Chui - 10th Place Mystery Architecture
Olivia Ireland - 10th Place Rocks and Minerals
Audrey Boling - 10th Place Rocks and Minerals.
2012 CSMS Science Olympiad Team:
Nathan Alam (7), Audrey Boling (8), Tyler Chui (7), Sam Dubke (7), Nate Foss (8), Sean Franklin (7), Nicole Freewalt (8), Olivia Ireland (8), Karl Keat (8), Jackson Kosmacki (8), Jessica Masterson (8), Revathi Mohan (8), Phoebe Otchere (8), Tucker Petersen (8), Alina Selnick (8), Will Shute (7), Andrew Yoder (8), Richard Yoder (8) and Billy Rice (7) alternate.