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Science Olympiad SPMS 2015 Awards- Regionals Team Members Madeline Stophel, Caroline Levine, Geethika Kataru, Vanessa Zacharia, Cade Bedell, Kerri Davis, Heather Davis, Joshua Pantano, Frederique Victor, Harrison Schwartz, William Mitchell, Sophia Stachowiak, and Christopher Slyvester 2nd place Anatomy/Physiology- Caroline Levine & Geethika Kataru 2nd place Mystery Powders (chemistry)- Kerri Davis & Vanessa Zacharia 2nd place- Dynamic Planet (marine biology)- William Mitchell & Heather Davis 2nd place - Bioprocess Lab (biochemistry) Sophia Stachowiak & Vanessa Zacharia 3rd place- Experimental Design- Kerri Davis and Geethika Kataru 2nd place- Green Generation (environmental science)- Madeline Stophel & Heather Davis 1st place- Meteorology- Madeline Stophel & Cade Bedell 2nd place- Road Scholar (mapping) Caroline Levine & Chris Sylvester 3rd place- Solar System Madeline Stophel & Harrison Schwartz 17 middle school teams and 10 high school teams in the Eastern Regional Division for the Florida Science Olympiad met at Embry-Riddle University in Daytona on Saturday, January 24th for the annual science competition. This is a daylong competition with 23 events in a variety of science categories. Students worked hard to prepare for research based events, laboratory activities, and engineering constructions. Our team began in October to prepare, meeting nearly every Monday for two hours with a few extra hours the week preceding the event. This was primarily a student run team. Ms. Christina Milton facilitated/coached the students. Mrs. Julie Pantano was a team sponsor and also designed our team shirts. Ms. Melissa Stanke attended the event and also judged the ‘Mission Possible’ event for the high school competition. We are pleased to announce that overall our team ranked 4 th place and we are awaiting our invitation to the state competition at UCF in Orlando.
