Quaker Valley School District: QVHS Science Olympiad Advances To States

Sewickley PA

27 March, 2021

10:41 PM

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Press release from the Quaker Valley School District: Published March 25, 2021 This is the 10th year in a row the QV team has qualified for states. Congratulations to the QVHS Science Olympiad team on advancing to the states. This makes it a "perfect decade" – 10 years in a row of the team qualified for states! Even with fewer regions (with more teams) due to COVID-19, QVHS placed 3rd in the West PA regional. Special thanks to our tournament site coordinator, Mr. Rich Hollein, who set up computers and assisted in running the tournament for our team from the library/makerspace/computer lab/etc., since the college host sites were not an option due to COVID-19. Congratulations to our event medalists and the entire team: Event Medals: 1st (trial) - Boomilever: Oliver Graham/Noah Rock 2nd - Experimental Design: Meera Kumar/Hope Linge/Meg Orie 2nd - Water Quality: Alexander Clifford/Spencer Clifford 3rd - Protein Modeling: Diego Trafton/Emma Parker/Patrick Munn 3rd - Fossils: Mary Pangburn/Diego Trafton 3rd - Dyanamic Planet: Patrick Munn/Mary Pangburn 3rd - Designer Genes: Matt Hicks/Diego Trafton 4th - Forensics: Emma Parker/Hope Linge 4th - Ornithology: Alexander Clifford/Hope Linge Team Members: Diego Trafton Alexander Clifford Matt Hicks Meg Orie Jack Bower Patrick Munn John Rafla Spencer Clifford Emma Parker Hope Linge Meera Kumar Mary Pangburn Isabella Murano Michael Lipton Loren Barnes Oliver Graham Noah Rock Julie Rafla Patrick Gold Published March 25, 2021 Print This press release was produced by the Quaker Valley School District. The views expressed are the author's own.