The Parkersburg High School Science Teams competed at the West Virginia Science Olympiad Tournament at Marshall University on March 2. The team finished in 2nd place overall, which makes them alternates for the National Science Olympiad Tournament at Michigan State University in May. Congratulations to all participants. Individual placements were as follows:
1st Place Forensics-Liam Guns and Manny Tewodros
2nd Place in Flight-Isabel Bhati and Nate McPeak
3rd Place in Astronomy-Isabel Bhati and Nate McPeak
2nd Place in Detector Building-Liam Guns and Truman Roberts
1st Place in Air Trajectory-Grant Murphy and Lily-Rose Walker
1st Place in Disease Detectives-Isabel Bhati and Kara Pascarella
2nd Place in Fermi Questions-Smit Babariya and Pallavi Sundaram
3rd Place in Wind Power-Liam Guns and Blake Riggs
2nd Place in Ecology-Nate McPeak and Lily-Rose Walker
3rd Place in Geological Mapping-Grant Murphy and Kara Pascarella
1st Place in Write it Do it-Connor Nelson and Pallavi Sundaram
1st Place in Forestry-Nate McPeak and Grant Murphy
1st Place in Robot Tour-Jackson Simmons and Pallavi Sundaram
1st Place in Scrambler-Smit Babariya and Manny Tewodros