Ames Middle School Science Olympiad team takes first place at regional tournament
Ames Middle School and Ames High School combined teams competed at a regional invitational Science Olympiad tournament in Warren Mo. the weekend of Feb. 4, 2017.
The Ames Middle School Science Olympiad team finished first place in the invitational tournament against 34 other middle school teams from Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa on Feb. 4. The team will compete in the State Science Olympiad competition March 25 at Coe College in Cedar Rapids.
First place medals:
- Seth Durbin and Emily Poag for Wright Stuff
- Anyang Yu and Emily Poag for Crimebusters
- Henry Tang, Eddie Wei , and Jerry Han for Experimental Design
- Sophia Cordoba and Sivani Manimaran for Fast Facts
- Seth Durbin and Michael Huang for Hovercraft
Third place medals:
- Taylor Xu and Eddie Wei for Invasive Species
- Seth Durbin and Jerry Han for Rocks and Minerals
- Steven Tian and henry Tang for Towers
Fourth place ribbons:
- Emily Poag and Steven Tian for Meteorology
- Sivani Manimaran and Quinn Harbison for Microbe Mission
Fifth place ribbons:
- David Jiang and Quinn Harbison for Disease Detectives
- Sophia Cordoba and Jixiang Li for Dynamic Planet
- John Zheng and Taylor Xu for Reach for the Stars
Sixth place ribbons:
- Sophia Cordoba and Henry Tang for Ecology
- James Lin and Jerry Han for Optics
- Eddie Wei and Rishbh Swamy for Road Scholar