Founded in 1984, Science Olympiad is the nation’s leading team STEM competition, providing standards-based challenges to more than 6,700 teams at 450 tournaments across all 50 states.

High School Team Success

Our Oneida High School Science Olympiad Team competed against 33 teams on January 31 at Le Moyne College. Under the leadership of coach Kevin Goggins, the team achieved outstanding results:

• 2nd Place: Chemistry Lab

• 3rd Place: Rocks and Minerals

• 4th Place: Entomology

• 5th Place: Experimental Design

• 7th Place: Code Busters

Middle School Team’s Outstanding First Year

Our Middle School’s new Science in the 21st Century class competed against 19 teams on March 7 at North Syracuse Junior High School.

Teacher and coach Karyn Lachut led the team in their first year ever competing, and the students delivered an exceptional performance. In the ten events they entered, every student earned a medal.

Event results included:

• 1st Place: Metric Mastery, Solar Systems

• 2nd Place: Heredity

• 3rd Place: Crime Busters

• 4th Place: Water Quality

• 5th Place: Entomology

• 6th Place: Rocks and Minerals

• 8th Place: Write It Do It, Meteorology

• 9th Place: Code Busters

We are incredibly proud of our students for their hard work, curiosity, and commitment to STEM learning. Congratulations to all participants and their coaches on these impressive achievements!