Levittown’s Division High School Science Olympians Head to State

Story by Elizabeth Sobel.

For the fifth consecutive year, the Division Avenue High School Science Olympiad team has earned the opportunity to compete in the New York State Finals held on March 8-9 in Monroe, N.Y. and has won the coveted Spirit Award. The Spirit Award is earned by only one school each year and is voted on by all of the event supervisors at the competition.   

Guidance counselor Lynn Castellano and sophomore Christina Reilly created and promoted an enormously spirited effort based on the theme of Disney’s “Where Dreams Come True.”

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All 60 team members wore specially designed t-shirts and Disney bows and suspenders and proudly displayed outstanding hallway decorations and hand-painted banners. Division Avenue High School cheered on other teams as well as their own, filling the competition with shared excitement and love for science throughout the day.

Science Olympiad team adviser Gerard Marzigliano, teachers Sarah LaBonte, Jeff Miller and Meghan Olsen , and science curriculum associate Kevin McDermott all cheered the members to victory.  

The Science Olympiad team earned medals in 10 of 22 events.

First place winners were: Savvas Papadopoulos and Gabriela Pereira in Geologic Mapping and Elastic Launch Glider, Michelle Pedreros and James Reilly in Gravity Vehicle, and George Hores and James Reilly in Magnetic Levitation.