Youngsters to gather at Northwest for Science Olympiad

Approximately 200 students from 12 area middle schools will visit the Northwest campus Saturday, Feb. 2, in order to participate in the Missouri Region I Junior High Science Olympiad.

Teams of students from each school will have the chance to participate in 23 events while using their knowledge of science to -- among other things -- build and test gliders, accurately shoot homemade trebuchets (a kind of catapult) and solve crime scenarios.

Contests will take place in the Garrett-Strong Science Building and Horace Mann Laboratory School gymnasium. An awards ceremony will follow in the J.W. Jones Student Union Ballroom.

About 20 Northwest faculty members and dozens of University students from the departments of biological sciences, chemistry and physics, geology and geography and mathematics and statistics have volunteered to serve as judges and otherwise assist with the event.

The top four teams will advance to the state Science Olympiad scheduled to take place March 15 at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

After the regional winners are announced, their names and schools will be published on the Northwest News and Events Web page (www.nwmissouri.edu/universityrelations/news).

For more information about the Olympiad, call Dr. Gretchen Thornsberry of the Department of Chemistry and Physics at 660.562.1215 (ext. 1215 on campus) or e-mail gthorns@nwmissouri.edu.

For more information, please contact:

Anthony Brown,
News Bureau Manager
E-Mail: abrown@nwmissouri.edu
Phone: 660.562.1704
Fax: 660.562.1900

Northwest Missouri State University
219 Administration Building,
800 University Drive
Maryville, MO 64468

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