Boyceville Science Olympiad Earns Team Championships at 17th Boyceville Invite
SHOWN in the photo are Delanie Olson (left) and Emily Fetzer (right). The duo brought home gold medals in the Forensics and Horticulture events at last Saturday’s Boyceville Science Olympiad Invitational. —photo by Steve Duerst
BOYCEVILLE – The Boyceville Science Olympiad program hosted their 17th Annual Invitational Tournament this past weekend with Division 2 team championships at both the middle school and high school levels. Boyceville also hosted a Satellite Science Olympiad tournament virtually, with nearly 400 teams competing, when combined with the 93 teams in-person added up to nearly 500 teams competing this year. This accounts for nearly one in ten teams in the nation competing at the Boyceville Invitational. Boyceville High School medal winners were as follows:
Gold medals were earned by the following:
Seniors Parker Coombs and Zach Kersten in Air Trajectory
Sophomores Chelsi Holden and William Engel in Air Trajectory (JV)
Senior Becca Wyss and Kersten in Flight
Sophomore Jon Madison and Engel in Flight (JV)
Juniors Delaney Olson and Emily Fetzer in Forensics
Senior Kylie Luedtke and sophomore Johanna Antunicci in Fossils
Senior Peter Wheeldon and sophomore Karen Schaff in Geocaching
D. Olson and Fetzer in Horticulture
Coombs and Wheeldon in Scrambler
Coombs and Fetzer in Towers
Coombs and Wheeldon in Wind Power
Fetzer and D. Olson in Write It, Do It
Silver medals were earned by the following:
Wheeldon, Wyss, and Coombs in Experimental Design
Seniors Alison McRoberts and Hannah Dunn in Horticulture (JV)
Schaff and Luedtke in Microbe Mission
Wyss and sophomore Loralie West in Optics
Wheeldon and Kersten in Robot Tour
Engel and sophomore Zoey Hellendrung in Scrambler (JV)
Senior Cora Leslie and Dunn in Towers (JV)
Engel and Holden in Wind Power (JV)
Bronze medals were earned by the following:
Wyss and Coombs in Detector Building
Freshmen Devon Lee and Myles Keck in Flight (JV)
IN THE Wind Power event teams score points in two ways. First, they build a wind turbine and earn points based on efficiency. Teams also earn points by how well they do on the written test. Peter Wheeldon (left) and Parker Coombs (right) took first place in the Small School division. —photo by Steve Duerst
Sophomore Anna Hafermann and West in Geologic mapping
Freshmen Isabelle Konsti and Sawyer Garbe in Horticulture (JV)
Senior Treylin Thorson in Scrambler (JV)
Holden and Hellendrung in Towers (JV)
Fourth place medals were earned by the following:
Schaff and Luedtke in Anatomy & Physiology
Juniors Tayler Drinkman and Olivia Jones in Astronomy (JV)
West and Hafermann in Dynamic Planet
Hellendrung and Holden in Experimental Design (JV)
Leslie and Dunn in Flight (JV)
Lee and Keck in Scrambler (JV)
Sophomores Aiden Brown and Cash Nielson in Towers (JV)
Thorson in Wind Power
Fifth place medals were earned by the following:
Junior Pedro Fernandez and Luedtke in Chemistry Lab
Wheeldon, Wyss, and Kersten in Codebusters
Sixth place medals were earned by the following:
Sophomore Abigail Bauer and Kersten in Mystery Architecture
Jon Madison and Engel in Mystery Architecture (JV)
Boyceville Middle School medal winners were as follows:
Gold medals were earned by the following:
Ninth grader Kade Phillips and seventh grader Easton Lange in Air Trajectory
Ninth graders Ava Dormanen and Emily Jackson in Can’t Judge a Powder
Dormanen and E. Jackson in Crime Busters
Ninth grader Eleanor Farrell and E. Jackson in Disease Detectives
Dormanen, ninth grader Brady Rasmussen, and Farrell in Experimental Design
Seventh grader Clayton Score and Lange in Flight
Eighth graders Eli Weber and Walter Schaff in Forestry
Score and Lange in Geocaching
Dormanen and E. Jackson in Horticulture
Weber and W. Schaff in Mystery Architecture
Weber and W. Schaff in Optics
Dormanen, Farrell, and E. Jackson in Picture This
Rasmussen and seventh grader Sara Hafermann in Reach for the Stars
Rasmussen and Farrell in Road Scholar
Score and Phillips in Robo Cross
Score and Lange in Roller Coaster
Eighth grader Isabelle Feeney and Score in Towers
Seventh graders Aubrie Humpal and Jillian Boesl in Towers (JV)
Silver medals were earned by the following:
Eighth graders Arnold Sudbrink and Tim Jackson in Air Trajectory (JV)
Rasmussen and Farrell in Ecology
Sudbrink and T. Jackson in Flight (JV)
Humpal and Boesl in Horticulture (JV)
Seventh graders Eli Cassellius and RJ Swenby in Roller Coaster
Lange and Phillips in Wheeled Vehicle
Humpal and Boesl in Wheeled Vehicle (JV)
Weber and W. Schaff in Wind Power
Bronze medals were earned by the following:
Sixth graders Aiden Feeney and Logan Monfort in Air Trajectory (JV)
Lange, Score, and I. Feeney in Codebusters
Farrell and S. Hafermann in Dynamic Planet
Seventh grader Amelia Henningfeld and sixth grader Samantha Bauer in Roller Coaster (JV)
Seventh graders Chris Madison and JB Mittlestadt in Towers (JV)
I. Feeney and Phillips in Write It, Do It
Fourth place medals were earned by the following:
I. Feeney in Anatomy & Physiology
Humpal and Boesl in Flight (JV)
E. Jackson and Hafermann in Fossils
Dormanen and S. Hafermann in Meteorology
C. Madison and Mittlestadt in Mystery Architecture (JV)
Cassellius and Swenby in Wheeled Vehicle (JV)
Fifth place medals were earned by the following:
Eighth grader Vance Olson in Air Trajectory (JV)
Rasmussen and Phillips in Fast Facts
I. Feeney and W. Schaff in Microbe Mission
Henningfeld and S. Bauer in Mystery Architecture (JV)
Sixth grader Elizabeth Tegart and Monfort in Robo Cross (JV)
“It was so exciting to host this many teams in Boyceville” said head coach Andy Hamm. “Our kids have worked hard already this year and I am so appreciative of our supportive staff, parents, and students in making this tournament possible. We had some great success and it is a testament to the hard work of all of the students.”
Boyceville will next be in action at the Medford Invitational and UW-River Falls in January. Boyceville Science Olympiad is coached by Andy Hamm, Russ Riehbrandt, and Steve Duerst.
Final Results of the 17th
Annual Boyceville High School
Science Olympiad Invitational
High School Results
Varsity Teams Only
Rank School Division Score
1 Madison West 1 106
2 Mounds View (MN) 1 109
3 Menomonie 1 122
4 Hudson 1 135
5 Rochester Mayo (MN) 1 137
6 Eden Prairie (MN) 1 137
7 Boyceville 2 144
8 Wayzata (MN) 1 159
9 Medford 2 165
10 Belleville 2 221
11 New Richmond 2 241
12 Eastview (MN) 1 277
13 Minnetonka (MN) 1 283
14 Shell Lake 2 299
15 East Ridge (MN) 1 300
16 Bloom. Kennedy (MN) 1 312
17 Wausau West 1 337
18 Unity 2 369
19 Baldwin-Woodville 2 375
20 Weyauwega-Fremont 2 382
21 Colfax 2 407
22 Elmwood 2 460
23 Middleton 2 465
24 Owatonna (MN) 2 499
25 Elk Mound 2 503
26 Bloom. Jefferson (MN) 1 505
27 Sparta 2 514
28 St. Michael-Albert. (MN) 2 558
29 Tomah 2 609
30 Cadott 2 639
Middle School Results
Varsity Teams Only
Rank School Division Score
1 Madison Hamilton 1 59
2 Boyceville 2 61
3 Chippewa (MN) 1 71
4 Menomonie 1 74
5 Sparta Innov. STEM 2 100
6 Hudson 1 120
7 Unity 2 128
8 Medford 2 163
9 Elmwood 2 180
10 New Richmond 2 228
11 Stanley-Boyd 2 275
12 Cadott 2 305
13 St. Michael-Albert. East (MN)1 305
14 St. Michael-Albert. West (MN)1 333