North Springs Science Olympiad Team Heads To State

From North Springs Charter HS: North Springs Charter High School’s Science Olympiad team has competed at the State tournament over the years, but this is the first time in the school’s history competing as the region champion. What makes it even more exciting is that the team is in a rebuilding year and never anticipated doing so well.

“We are definitely very happy and very surprised because we lost half our team of graduating seniors along with our faculty sponsor who moved to another school. I didn’t think we’d make it out of regions, let alone take first place. It really validates of all our hard work and our successful rebuilding,” said Jonathan (J. J.) Lu, a senior and president of North Springs’ team known as the Laser Sharks.

The team of 15 will be competing in pairs in all 23 events which covers, according to Lu, “any avenue of science from chemistry, biology, and physics, to the environment and engineering/build events. “We move as a team and our goal is to get the lowest amount of points – winning first in any event equals one point,” he explained.

Lu, who will attend Georgia Tech as an industrial engineering major, went all the way to nationals on his 7 th grade team but says, “Going to nationals will be very up hill, and the top two schools are ridiculously strong. Regardless, we are optimistic for the future, our big goal all along was to build up the team and doing this well is a big plus. Mrs. Davis has been a great help and really supportive too,” he added.

Tonya Davis, North Springs’ Science Department chair and new team sponsor credits Lu and the hard work of the entire team. “I’m very proud of our students- they have worked so hard and are just amazing. J.J. has been awesome, he’s a wonderful leader and has been my go to person. We are all very excited!”

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