What a week for science in Exeter! This week, Senior High and Junior High students competed at the regional Science Olympiad at Kutztown University against 27 other schools from Berks, Lehigh, Northumberland, Northampton and Schuylkill counties. The Senior High team placed 6th, qualifying them for the State Tournament in Altoona in late April. Additionally, six teams earned medals, including:

• • Juliana Nerney and Phillip Lake in the Scramble
• • Hansika Kunduru and Addison McKittrick in Anatomy & Physiology
• • Shaun Rathman and Gillian Foster in Fossils
• • Meredith Batz and Katie Hoover in Wind Power
• • Gillian Foster and Katie Hoover in Geologic Mapping
• • Audrey Gierlich and Shaun Rathman in Astronomy

At the Junior High level, Alex Boyer and Zander Bogust placed 2nd in “Write It Do It” and Michael Jordan and Owen Schafer placed 3rd in the Tower Building event.

Founded in 1984, Science Olympiad is the premier team STEM competition in the nation, providing standards-based challenges to 6,000 teams at 425 tournaments in all 50 states. During tournaments, students test their knowledge in many different areas of science, including earth science, biology, chemistry, physics or engineering, such as building structures, creating design logs and data tables, and completing lab practicals or exams. The teams are advised by Mr. Will Lasky and Mrs. Amber Bollinger at the Senior High and Mrs. Tracy Powell and Mrs. Gretchen Hess at the Junior High.

Congratulations to all of our STEM students who represented Exeter in tournaments this week, and best of luck to our students who will be continuing to represent Exeter at the state level next month!