Athens Science Olympiad

Bayard Rustin Science Olympiad invitational Results. Boomilever - 2nd and 3rd Place. Botany - 13 th place Experimental Design - 4th place... Fossils - 8th place Game on - 2nd place Heredity - 14th place Home horticulture- 4th place Mousetrap Vehicle. - 4th and 6th place See more

5th place overall

Bayard Rustin Award Ceremony video is now available! Watch it here: https://youtu.be/Z-xwDK9mjNM

For everyone who follows the Athens High School Science Olympiad team, they competed virtually at the North Pocono Invitational last Saturday, tonight they ha...d the awards ceremony. Out of 57 teams Athens took 5th overall...here are the categories for medals Astronomy 2nd place Boomilever 1st place Chem Lab 8th place Circuit Lab 6th place Disease Detectives 8th place Dynamic Planet 8th place Fossils 8th place Gravity Vehicle 4th place Protein Modeling 5th place Sounds of Music 3rd place Congratulations to our high school team ! Way to go, you guys are building a strong, competitive team !

Last weekend our high school (C Division) team participated in the Carnegie Mellon Invitational. Medal was Awarded to: Geo Mapping. 6th place. Write it. CAD it. 8th place. ... Congratulations!

The B Team ceremony for yesterday's Lake Braddock competition starts tonight at 7:00PM. Here is the link: https://youtu.be/ejdoDEBLjWQ

Our B Team qualified for the finals in Science Quiz Bowl. Congratulations Darius and Pierce! This will be a 50 minute Jeopardy type competition that will streamed online. We will be posting the link here at 6:45PM tonight. All interested parties are welcome to join and urge our competitors on!

Painting party fundraiser is sold out ! Thank you for all that bought tickets and are coming to support our team. If you would still like to help but did not want to attend, we are going to be doing a few basket raffles, if you would like to prepare a basket just let me know and I will pick it up. Thanks again for supporting this amazing group of kids !

We are fortunate that we are involved in an activity that can be done remotely. Today our C team is competing from their homes in the North Pocono Science Olympiad Invitational while at the same time, our B team is competing from their homes in the Lake Braddock, VA competition. Here's a picture of Command Central!

Only a few more hours until the Award Ceremony for yesterdays invite! Here is the link for anyone who would like to watch. Starts at 6:00PM EST. https://youtu.be/7xIxYOrqJws

Update: New link sent Out. https://youtu.be/uJN5zF1M6wc Award ceremony is set to start at 5:30. Here is the link to watch. Root for Athens Area Black and Athens Area Silver. ... https://youtu.be/XsbTLpIKaI8

Excited for the kids to be able to compete again. Very early invite, excited to see how the new format works. Good luck high school team.

Competitions are back!!! Tomorrow is our first Science Olympiad invite of the year. It is the earliest we've ever competed, and in fact this is one of the first invites in the country this year. The Science Olympiad Board has gotten creative and this year we will be competing remotely either from our own homes or school. In this first invite, students will be competing with their partners from within their own homes. We can't compete in all events, but we're just happy we ...have Science Olympiad in any form. One advantage to remote invites is that we get to compete against teams we aren't familiar with. This invitational is made up mostly of teams from Georgia. I met the coach at the Summer Institute in Phoenix one year, and she invited us to her competition. We are the guinea pigs testing out their new online testing software and I'm sure there will be some hiccups, but we will work them all out. For those of you who like to keep tabs on us, they will be streaming the award ceremony tomorrow (Saturday, Oct 24th) at 5:00PM. Check back here for the link tomorrow afternoon. The students will be gathering for the ceremony (properly social distanced of course) and we may try to stream from our location as well. Hope to see you all online tomorrow! Go Wildcats!

We are 2/3rds full - only 10 openings remain. Book now to get your spot! It’s a fun time and supports a great group of students!

Don’t forget to sign up for this great fundraiser event to benefit Science Olympiad. Only 10 seats left. Book your seat today.

Due to COVID, we have a limited number of seats available. Grab a friend and sign up for a night of Christmas pairing fun!

Birdwatchers take note... https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=4370767089631634&id=120419764666409

For anyone interested, there will be a nice flyover of the Space Station tonight. Time: Fri Jul 31 9:26 PM, Visible: 4 min, Max Height: 57 degrees, Appears: NW, ... Disappears: ESE It should appear below the Big Dipper, then cut right through the Little Dipper. It then will pass right by Deneb in Cygnus. See more

With our recent visit from Comet Neowise, some of the Astronomy and Reach for the Stars team members and family were able to get together to do a little stargazing. The night started with us having a great view of the Space Station flyover. Afterward, we headed to the top of the hill to check out the comet. Jake was able to get some great pictures of the comet with his phone just by putting it behind his binoculars. Then we headed back to the observatory to check out Jupiter and Saturn. The time flew by and before we knew it, it was after midnight. We will have to try to fit another session or two in before school starts.

So excited for the new year.

It's been a strange summer, but I'm happy to say we've been able to fit in some Science Olympiad. This year (and last year's) Food Science topic for the B Division is Fermentation, so I grew some pickling cucumbers just for the occasion. On a beautiful summer morning recently, the Food Science team and a few others got together to mix up a batch of garlic dill pickles. This particular recipe is a straight forward example of fermentation in its simplest form (a picture i...s included below). Pickles were added to brine along with garlic, dill and a few spices. After 4-5 days in a cool, dark place the proof that fermentation has taken place is in the carbon dioxide bubbles and the tangy taste of lactic acid in the pickles. Each family took home their own jar to finish the process. We also discussed the processes that would take place and the purpose of each of the ingredients in the recipe. Finally, we tasted a batch of pickles that were started a few days earlier, and even took tastes of the pickle juice which was by then full of healthy probiotics. Here are some pictures!

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