This past weekend saw the second annual Regional Science Olympiad Tournament at the Maui College campus. Seven teams from around the island met to compete in a wide variety of building challenges and written tests from bridges and bottle rockets to diseases, rocks and minerals. Maui Preparatory Academy was represented by sixteen of our 6th, 7th , 8th and 9th graders in the seven different events – our largest team ever! Our students worked extremely hard under the direction of coaches Krishna Narayan, Carrie DeMott and Chris Border over the past 10 weeks to prepare for their events. Their efforts were recognized and rewarded as our students placed 1st in four of the events (Bottle Rockets, Disease Detective, Experimental Design, and Tower Building) and 2nd in two other events (Dynamic Planet and Rocks & Minerals). These results gave Maui Prep a 1st place finish overall! This is the third year which Maui Prep has won the Regional Competition and advanced to the Hawaii State Science Olympiad Tournament. Students are now busy preparing for the additional events and increased competition of the State Tournament which will be held at Leeward Community College on March 3rd.
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