LMK Olympiad Team Triumphs at Regional Final

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The LMK Science Olympiad team competed against 27 other schools in the Regional Finals held at Scarsdale Middle School and achieved four top 10 finishes. 

This year the team, under the supervision of science and technology teachers Kathleen Ennis, Caitlin Pastor, Elyjah Perry and Andrea Volmer, helped the students prepare for events such as the Microbe Mission, Bottle Rocket, Forestry, Helicopter Egg Drop and Keep the Heat. 

In the Water Quality event, Eric Kopczynski and Christian Reigler received an astounding second place finish. It was the first time that either boy had competed in this event.  Leslie An and Joseph Dolinak, in the Write It, Do It event; James Jacobson and Joseph Dolinak in the Optics event, and Matthew Schwartz in the Meteorology each took home a ninth place finish.

“All events are driven by the students,” said 7th grade science teacher Kathleen Ennis. “They need to be able to problem solve. The teachers are allowed to ask questions that will get the students thinking in the right direction, but Science Olympiad is very much about becoming a self-directed learner.”

The 23-person team is comprised of students of all grades.  They are: Leslie An, Robert Baldoni, Jr., Zachary and Andrew Carvajal, Millie Deb, Joseph Dolinak, Vito Gonnella, Joseph Hirshorn, James Jacobson, William Kim, Eric Kopczynski, Tadhg Lynch, Steven Maldonado, Tyler Neese, Christian Riegler, Cory Sala, Julianne Sanscartier, Matthew Schwartz, Ishani Shelat, Brian Siegal, Luke Steinthal,  Hinako Terasaki, and Jack Witte.