BHS Science Olympiad wins small school division at UWRF Invite
IN SCIENCE Olympiad tournaments, the JV students are allowed to compete against the varsity students. Boyceville JV students Hannah Dunn (foreground) and Cora Leslie (background) are shown preparing their bridge. The bulldog partners earned 2nd place in the Small School division and placed 3rd overall in the whole tournament. —photo by Steve Duerst
IN THE WiFi event competitors test their handmade antennas for signal strength to a given distance and complete a written test about radio waves and the electromagnetic spectrum. Bringing home a silver medal are Abby Bauer (left) and Loralie West (right). —photo by Steve Duerst
RIVER FALLS- – The Boyceville Science Olympiad attended the UW-River Falls Invitational in-person for the first time since 2020 this past weekend, winning the small school division and placing fourth overall out of 61 teams. Boyceville High School medal winners were as follows:
Gold medals were earned by the following:
Flight – Juniors Zach Kersten and Becca Wyss; Forensics – Wyss and sophomore Emily Fetzer; Horticulture – Freshmen Samantha Stoveren and Karen Schaff (JV) ; Its About Time – Juniors Peter Wheeldon and Caden Wold; Robo Cross – Junior Parker Coombs and Wheeldon; Scrambler – Wheeldon and Wold; Trajectory – Coombs and Kersten
Silver medals were earned by the following:
Bridges – Juniors Hannah Dunn and Cora Leslie (JV); Experimental Design – Coombs, Wheeldon, and Wyss; Robo Cross – Samantha Stoveren and seventh grader John Stoveren; WIFI Lab – Sophomore Abigail Bauer and freshman Loralie West; Flight – Leslie and Dunn (JV)
Bronze medals were earned by the following:
Anatomy & Physiology – Junior Kylie Luedtke and senior Dawson Standaert; Bridges – Coombs and Wold; Codebusters – Schaff, eighth grader Eleanor Farrell, and seventh grader Ivan Farrell (JV); Detector Building – Wyss and Coombs; Detector Building – Senior Kaianna Banyai and junior Treylin Thorson (JV); Disease Detectives – Standaert and Wyss; Geocaching – Schaff and Eleanor Farrell (JV); Horticulture – Fetzer and freshman Anna Hafermann; Precision Medicine – Luedtke and Standaert; Scrambler – Thorson and Standaert (JV)
Fourth place medals were earned by the following:
Astronomy – Wheeldon and Luedtke; Cell Biology – Standaert and Luedtke; Horticulture – Junior Alison McRoberts and Dunn (JV); Virology – Bauer and Standaert
“Our team did an outstanding job at UW-River Falls” said Boyceville head coach Andy Hamm. “I am really proud of all of the hard work our kids put in over the past week to prepare for another tournament only a week after our last one. The kids did a great job representing Boyceville and I am excited to see the growth we have experienced throughout the season. We are looking forward to going to Ohio in a few weeks to compete against national-level competition.
Boyceville High School will next be in action at the Solon (OH) Invitational and will be joined by the middle school team at this national-level invitational on February 4. Boyceville Science Olympiad is coached by Andy Hamm, Russ Riehbrandt, and Steve Duerst.
Final Results of the UW-River Falls
High School Science Olympiad Invitational
Rank School Score
1 Menomonie 184
2 Wayzata (MN) 204
3 Hudson 245
4 Boyceville 256
5 Belleville 261
6 Eagan (MN) 262
7 Eden Prairie (MN) 301
8 Bloomington Kennedy (MN) 311
9 Bismarck (ND) 334
10 Mounds View (MN) 336
11 Medford 337
12 Wayzata (MN) JV 373
13 Mounds View (MN) JV 395
14 Rochester Mayo (MN) 414
15 East Ridge (MN) 429
16 New Richmond 432
17 Lakeville North (MN) 445
18 Delano (MN) 447
19 Legacy (ND) 451
20 Wausau West 494
21 Eagan (MN) JV 510
22 Lakeville South (MN) 522
23 Hudson JV 538
24 Wayzata (MN) JV2 540
25 Bloomington Jefferson (MN) 591
26 Lakeland Union 610
27 Shell Lake 635
28 Faribault (MN) 641
29 Elmwood 653
30 Delano (MN) JV 659
31 Unity 661
32 Orono (MN) 663
33 Baldwin-Woodville 670
34 Boyceville JV-Middle School 736
35 Lakeville North (MN) JV 749
36 Menomonie JV 763
37 Rochester Mayo (MN) JV 804
38 New Richmond JV 807
39 Rochester John Marshall (MN) 812
40 Eden Prairie (MN) JV 819
41 Waseca (MN) 829
42 Baldwin-Woodville JV 833
43 Hudson JV2 864
44 Blake (MN) 911
45 Boyceville JV-Newton 917
46 Denmark 926
47 Almond-Bancroft 933
48 Spring Lake Park (MN) 969
49 Elk Mound 1035
50 Shell Lake JV 1049
51 Bloomington Jefferson (MN) JV 1060
52 Bloomington Kennedy (MN) JV 1106
53 Rochester John Marshall (JV) 1135
54 Medford JV 1137
55 Elk Mound JV 1184
56 Wausau West JV 1194
57 Birchwood 1209
58 Waseca (MN) JV 1242
59 Cadott 1337
60 St. Croix Central 1347
61 Lakeville South (MN) JV 1367