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Merrimack Wins 4th-in-a-Row Science Olympiad
Four Merrimack teams competed and placed first, third, sixth and 10th of 16 teams.
Merrimack High School brought home 29 medals, 15 ribbons and one state title from this weekend's Science Olympiad, where 60 of Merrimack's best and brightest competed against 11 other schools in the science- and technology-based competition.
Team Muller came out on top this weekend, winning Merrimack's fourth-in-a-row state championship for this event. Three other Merrimack teams competed, including Team Davis (third place) Team Campbell (sixth place) and Team Soucy (10th place).
The four Merrimack teams competed against Bishop Guertin High School, Hollis/Brookline High School, Wilton-Lyndeborough Senior High School, The Academy for Science and Design, Nashua North High School, Nashua South High School, High Mowing School, Milford High School, Windham High School, Somersworth High School and Team Bursaw and Team Lambert from Salem High School.
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At the Saturday competition, Merrimack High School students took 13 of the 21 gold medals, 10 silver medals, six bronze medals, five fourth-place ribbons, five fifth-place ribbons, and five sixth-place ribbons, MHS science teacher Sean Muller said.
Team Muller took first place by more than 100 points over its closest competition, earning the team a trip to represent the state at the national Science Olympiad being hosted by the University of Central Florida. With more than 6,000 teams that compete at the state level in the United States, only 60 are invited to compete at nationals.
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According to Muller, at last year's competition Merrimack had two students place fifth in the Anatomy and Physiology event, a milestone the team hopes to improve upon this year.
However, to get to nationals, Merrimack students need your help. The Science Olympiad team is looking to local businesses and residents who can help defray the cost to send the team to Florida for the national competition. At a price tag of $11,700 to get there, the team has planned several fundraisers to help.
In addition holding car washes, fundraisers at the transfer station and a pancake breakfast to raise money, the team is also looking for donations of items that they can use in competition. Some of these items include: exacto blades, tools, non-graphing scientific calculators, and working used Mac laptops from 2009 or later with intel processor and 2 GB of RAM.
Straight monetary donations can also be made by sending a check to the Merrimack High Science Olympiad Club at 38 McElwain St., Merrimack, NH 03054.
“Team Merrimack would like to extend a very heartfelt thank you to their parents, their parent volunteers, the Merrimack School District staff, the Merrimack Rotary Club, the HydroCam Corporation and to Don Banfield and all the employees of Conductive Compounds in Nashua,” Muller said. “The teams’ success is a reflection of the hard work and faith that you have invested in our students.”
For more information about how you can help the Science Olympiad team make it to nationals, or if your company might be interested in becoming a corporate sponsor for the team, contact Muller at seanp.muller@merrimack.k12.
For more information about the state Science Olympiad competition, click here.
https://sites.google.com/a/sau41.org/nhscienceolympiad/
Below are the individual results from Saturday's competition.
Category Team Muller Team Davis Team Campbell Team Soucy Anatomy Sam Lo and Elias Kim – 1st Rachel Dye and Sarah Sherman – 5th
Astronomy Alyssa Hobbs and Perry Franklin – 2nd Joel Yates and Angelica Gonzalez – 6th
Chemistry Lab Matt Correia, and Paxton Gray – 2nd Brian Stankewicz and Dylan Bradbury – 6th
Anders Dahl and Rebecca Jolly – 4th Dynamic Planet Tyler Golemo and Jon Appert – 4th
Exp. Design Sam Lo, Kevin Palm and Julie Gagnon – 1st Sharah Sherman, Angelica Ginzalez and Ariel Sherman – 2nd
Fermi Matt Correia and Perry Franklin – 3rd John White and Sarah Sherman – 4th
Tim Field – 6th Forensics Roshni Narasimhan and Jake Grist – 3rd
Becca Jackson and Matt Jones – 1st Rebecca Jolly and Anders Dahl – 5th
Forestry Luisa Forger and Tyler Golemo – 1st
Gravity Vehicle Jake Grist and Julie Gagnon – 3rd Jon White and Amanda Field – 6th Matt Jones and Meg Ortega – 1st
Helicopter Sam Lo and Kevin Palm – 1st Cassie Toribio and Jeremy Grubber – 2nd Kyle Lawson and Mike Langelier – 3rd
Microbe Sam Lo and Alyssa Hobbs – 1st Rachel Dye and Sarah Sherman – 3rd
Optics Kevin Palm an Elias Kim – 2nd Dylan Bradbury and Jon Pitten – 6th
Remote Sensing Ben Rogers and Paxton Gray – 4th
Robot Arm Ben Rogers an Jon Appert – 2nd
Dan Mulligan and Meg Ortega – 1st
Rocks and Minerals Roshni Narasimhan and Jake Grist – 1st
Sound of Music Luisa Forger and Paxton Gray – 2nd Dylan Bradbury and Amanda Field – 1st
TPS Kevin Palm and Matt Correia – 1st
Thermodynamics Elias Kim and Matt Correia – 1st
Ben Francis and Kyle Lawson – 3rd
Towers Alyssa Hobbs and Julie Gagnon – 2nd Jon White and Jon Pitten – 5th Mike Langelier and Chris Lore – 4th Julie Berberian and Jon Watson – 1st Water Quality
Cassie Toribio and Rachel Dye – 2nd Kaitlyn Eckert and Taber Yim – 5th James Jolly and Rob St. Laurent – 1st Write It Do IT Luisa Forger and Ben Rogers – 3rd Ariel Sherman and Jeremy Gruber –5th
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