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UMS Science Olympiad team places ninth |
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Wednesday, 12 December 2007 |
 SCIENCE TEAM – UMS students recently competed at the Science Olympiad on the campus of MSU-Bozeman. From the left are Jenna Stratman, Ciara Bender, Jessica Stenson, Taylor Judisch, Alex Widhalm-Hauer, Deb Jarchow, Megan Fetters, Rebecca Brown, Seth Moerkerke, Logan Gouchenour, Jacob Gouchenour, Clay Winters, Austin Brauer, Kyle Linn, Sam Carroll, Moerkerke, and Matt Missik. Photo courtesy of Monica Tomayer/UMS
Some events items must be built beforehand to fit various criteria, like a catapult to launch three to eight meters.
Sometimes the item must be built at the competition given various equipment pieces and parts. Or, students compete in a science category using the knowledge that they have acquired by studying a set of topic words.
This year’s UMS team scored ninth out of 37 other middle school teams from around the state.
Placing second in Write It Do It (a writing and building event) were Deb Jarchow and Alex Widlhalm-Hauer. They earned silver metals for their efforts.
Earning fourth place in Metric Mastery (an event that has competitors estimate in the metric system) were Sam Carroll and Kyle Linn. Seth Moerkerke and Logan Gouchenour earned fifth place in Crave the Wave, an event that studied various wave motion and ocean waves. Sixth place went to the team of Jacob Gouchenour, Matt Missik and Austin Brauer in Robo-Cross, where the boys had to build a robot car to do various jobs.
Deb Jarchow and Alex Widhalm-Hauer earned seventh place in Trajectory by building and testing a catapult to launch various described distances and heights. Oceanography event was completed by Ciara Bender and Jenna Statman where the girls answered questions about ocean life, depth and other complicated questions and earned a seventh place.
Sam Carroll and Kyle Linn earned eighth place in an event that had them determining what Amphibian was present in the preserved jar. Scrambler, an egg carrying car that had to travel to a barrier, was built and tested by Logan Gouchenour and Seth Moerkerke. They earned 11th place, while 15th place was earned by Jacob Gouchenour and Sam Carroll in Simple Machines where the boys had to determine the mechanical advantage, work input and work output for various machines.
Ben Moerkerke and Clay Winters earned 18th place in both their events, Bio-Process Lab about microscopes, cells and other lab equipments and Ecology about food webs, pyramids and predators vs. prey. Rebecca Brown and Megan Fetters earned 18th place in Food Science where they learned about sugar, carbohydrate and fats content in various foods.
Road Scholar about maps, latitude and longitude was an event that Matt Missik and Austin Brauer placed 19th in. Megan Fetters and Rebecca Brown placed 27th in Mystery Architecture where they had to build an unknown device with various materials.
Taylor Judisch and Jessica Stenson were the reporters for the competition, taking pictures and getting information about the events of the day.
The team was coached by Monica Tomayer, Dan Brown and Sam Gouchenour.
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