Boyceville HS & MS Each Defeat 2 State Champions in Science Olympiad Invite
BOYCEVILLE — The Boyceville High School Science Olympiad defeated three-time defending Indiana State Champion Munster HS and 22-time defending Iowa State Champion Ames HS for the first time ever on their way to finishing in third place overall out of 76 teams this past Saturday at the 9th Annual Boyceville Science Olympiad Invite.
Munster finished in sixth place at the National Finals last May in Nebraska. Boyceville finished behind only two-time defending Wisconsin State Champion Menomonie and five-time defending champion Mounds View from Minnesota, who finished in fifth place at the National Finals last May.
Boyceville’s varsity team was the champion of Division 2 and earned medals in 22 of 27 total events. Individual event gold medals were earned by senior Andrew Marshall and junior Max Engel in Air Trjaectory, senior Brandon Windsor and sophomore Jason Swanepoel in Dynamic Planet, Engel and Marshall in Electric Vehicle, Swanepoel and sophomore Nicole Drinkman in Fossils, Marshall and senior Wyatt Swenson in Geocaching, Swenson and senior Luke Timper in Microbe Mission, seniors Madison Bygd and Carolyn Voelker in Protein Modeling, Swenson and sophomore Casey Owen in Wind Power, sophomores Brennan Wheeldon and Sean Best in Wright Stuff, and Owen and Marshall in Time for Me to Fly.
Silver medals were earned by L. Timper and Bygd in Anatomy & Physiology, Swanepoel and L. Timper in Astronomy, seniors Peyton Hellmann, Samantha Merkel, and Bygd in Experimental Design, Windsor and Voelker in Food Science, Voelker and Bygd in Forensics, L. Timper and Marshall in Its About Time, Timper and Swenson in Robot Arm, Engel and Swenson in Wright Stuff, and sophomores Emmett Kapsner and Rian Corr in Time for Me to Fly.
Bronze medals were earned by Swanepoel and Windsor in GeoLogic Mapping, Engel and Drinkman in Green Generation, Windsor and Bygd in Invasive Species, E. Kapsner and R. Corr in both Wright Stuff and Air Trajectory, and sophomores Haley Wold, Mariah Schlottman, and Lauryn Dominick in Experimental Design.
Fourth place medals were earned by Swenson and Owen in Bridge Building and juniors Kiel Anderson and Marvin Wienke in Electric Vehicle.
A fifth place medal was earned by seniors Alex Kapsner and Jack Kapsner in Its Time for Me to Fly.
Sixth place medals were earned by Engel, L. Timper, and Marshall in Code Busters, Voelker and Bygd in Disease Detectives, and Anderson and Wienke in both Game On and Bridge Building.
The Boyceville Middle School Science Olympiad Varsity team finished in third place overall (but was the second place school) at the 38-team Boyceville Science Olympiad Invitational Tournament also this past Saturday, defeating defending Minnesota state champion Chippewa Middle School from North Oaks, MN and defending Iowa state champion Ames MS. Boyceville MS only finished behind two teams from Daniel Wright JHS in Lincolnshire, IL, who finished in third place at the National Finals last May in Nebraska.
Tournament champion gold medals were earned by sixth graders Connor Sempf and Nathan Corr in Elastic Launch Gliders. Silver medals were earned by eighth grader Cade Klefstad and N. Corr in Scrambler.
Bronze medals were earned by eighth graders Noelle Wheeldon and Klefstad in Mission Possible and eighth graders Ana Evenson and N. Wheeldon in Picture This. Fourth place medals were earned by ninth grader Mark Timper and eighth grader Caitlyn Pelikan in Crave the Wave and Klefstad and N. Wheeldon in Time for Me to Fly.
Fifth place medals were earned by Sempf and N. Corr in Bridge Building and ninth graders Sarah Kapsner and M. Timper in Crime Busters. A sixth place medal was earned by eighth graders Tyra Kostman and Evenson in Write It, Do It.
The Boyceville Middle School Science Olympiad team is now off until January 9th when they travel to Minneapolis for the University of Minnesota Gopher Invitational, while the High School Science Olympiad team is off until January 23rd when they travel to River Falls for the UWRF Border Battle Science Olympiad Invitational Tournament.
History of Boyceville H.S./M.S. Science Olympiad Program
Andy Hamm took over leadership of the Science Olympiad program in Boyceville High School and Middle School in 2008, where they placed ninth in the state out of fifty schools. Every year since 2009, Boyceville has placed either third or fourth. Prior to Mr. Hamm’s leadership, Boyceville had been placing in the bottom half of the rankings since joining the competition in 2000.
Retired Boyceville science teacher, Steve Durest beamed when discussing the Olympiad and how it has influenced his students. “This Olympiad extends student’s reach; it changes their expectations of themselves. Kids that participate in this competition, they see academics in a different way. We have a program here where seventh graders get invited to take high school algebra as eighth graders and when that happens, they begin high school with a higher academic expectation of themselves. One year we had a group of about a dozen eighth graders who took this high school algebra course and of them, all but three went on to take the advanced AP classes and really flourished academically in their high school years. The three students that did not go on to advanced AP classes happened to not participate in the Science Olympiad.”
Final High School Team Results 9th
Annual Boyceville Science Olympiad
Invitational Tournament
1 Mounds View (MN) Hams 171
2 Menomonie Maroon 191
3 Boyceville Varsity-Purple 211
4 Mounds View (MN) Quokkas 217
5 Medford Area Red 221
6 Munster (IN) Black 250
7 Munster (IN) Red 256
8 Mounds View (MN) Sea Turtles 263
9 Menomonie White 267
10 Wayzata (MN) Cuttlefish 298
11 Mounds View (MN) Bacons 334
12 Mounds View (MN) Barbecue Ribs 341
13 Mounds View (MN) Salty Dogs 345
14 Mounds View (MN) Hot Dogs 346
15 Munster (IN) White 351
16 Eden Prairie (MN) A 439
17 Wausau West Gold 446
18 Woodbury (MN) A 467
19 Marshfield A 492
20 Lakeland Union A 504
21 Rochester John Marshall (MN) A 510
22 Chippewa Falls Red 532
23 Wayzata (MN) Chili Peppers 540
24 Wausau West Blue 567
25 Eastview (MN) Lightning 573
26 Mounds View (MN) Team 3 590
27 New Richmond Black 611
28 Denmark A 615
29 Medford Area White 624
30 Shell Lake Gold 638
31 Menomonie Gold 641
32 Spring Lake Park (MN) 1 656
33 Wayzata (MN) SWAG Crew 677
34 Apple Valley (MN) 824
35 Athens 826
36 Wayzata (MN) Mushu Dragons 828
37 Belleville 830
38 Eden Prairie (MN) B 835
39 Menomonie Black 846
40 Rochester Mayo (MN) Salty 859
41 Eastview (MN) Thunder 868
42 New Richmond Orange 885
43 Elk Mound A 931
44 Eden Prairie (MN) C 934
45 Spring Valley 939
46 Rochester Mayo (MN) Spicy 940
47 Woodbury (MN) B 956
48 Ames (IA) 993
49 Shell Lake White 1020
50 Denmark B 1034
51 Chippewa Falls White 1035
52 Irondale (MN) 1037
53 Marshfield B 1037
54 Lakeland Union B 1048
55 Denmark C 1052
56 Shell Lake Blue 1084
57 Rochester Mayo (MN) Sweet 1102
58 Elk Mound B 1112
59 Triton (MN) 1148
60 Medford Area Pink 1171
61 St. Croix Central A 1193
62 Spring Lake Park (MN) 2 1255
63 Boyceville JV-Planck 1276
64 Colfax 1277
65 Elk Mound C 1295
66 Menomonie Aqua 1300
67 Sparta 1334
68 Osseo-Fairchild 1335
69 Boyceville JV-Tesla 1341
70 Medford Area Silver 1406
71 Rochester John Marshall (MN) B 1437
72 St. Croix Central B 1449
73 Boyceville JV-Einstein 1454
74 Medford Area Black 1466
75 Baldwin-Woodville 1477
76 Mellen 1678
Final Middle School Team Results
9th Annual Boyceville Science Olympiad
Invitational Tournament
1 Daniel Wright (IL) Green 71
2 Daniel Wright (IL) White 96
3 Boyceville Varsity-Purple 222
4 Madison Eagle A 237
5 Rochester Friedell (MN) Black 249
6 Menomonie Maroon 267
7 Chippewa (MN) Alps 286
8 Highview (MN) Yard Waste 294
9 Chippewa (MN) Andes 303
10 Chippewa (MN) Himalayas 308
11 Wilbur Wright (IN) 317
12 Ames (IA) 345
13 Sparta Innovations STEM Academy A 370
14 Chippewa (MN) Rockies 370
15 Medford Area Red 395
16 Menomonie White 406
17 Madison Eagle B 412
18 Rochester Friedell (MN) Yellow 426
19 Medford Area White 449
20 Sparta Innovations STEM Academy B 483
21 Highview (MN) Strawberries 497
22 Hudson A 565
23 New Richmond Black 586
24 Rochester Friedell (MN) Green 588
25 Hudson B 636
26 Providence Academy (MN) B 643
27 Spring Valley 646
28 Menomonie Gold 657
29 Chippewa (MN) Urals 665
30 New Richmond Orange 666
31 Providence Academy (MN) A 690
32 Boyceville JV-Blue 705
33 St. Bridget (River Falls) 730
34 Providence Academy (MN) D 735
35 Boyceville JV-Red 776
36 Providence Academy (MN) C 801
37 Boyceville JV-Green 819
38 Mellen 820