Fikrie Hodzhova, 12, and Meron Domanski, 10, placed second out of 11 schools competing at the EPC Invitational Tournament in the “Tower Build” on February 23 at Northampton Community College.
Their second-place tower held 14.2kg out of the max weight of 15kg.
Medals were awarded to the top seven students in each event at last week’s tournament.
Juniors, Kona Maronpot and Peter Leyba placed 7th in Detector Building; Junior, Mackenzie Dalton, and sophomore, Tanya Sathapornwongkul, placed 3rd in Fossils; seniors, Gunnar Gasper and Andrew Hawks placed 2nd in Write it/ Do it; senior, Nathan Fritz and sophomore, Zachary Fritz placed 7th in Write it/ Do it.
Advisor, Mr. Andrew Bentzoni, explained, “The fossils challenge is a study event where they are tested on identifying fossils and other questions related to them. The Write it/Do it challenge is an event where the students are separated while one writes a description about an object given to them and how to build it while the other student then tries to recreate the object based on the instructions, somewhat testing their reverse engineering skills. ”
In January, Science Olympiad competed against North Pocono High School where several members performed successfully. Junior, Colton Leeth, competed in the ecology, micro mission, and wind power challenges. Leeth placed 11 out of 40 participants in the wind power challenge.
Leeth shared that the competition at EPCs was tough, but he is pleased that he is improving overall.
