Heritage’s Junior High Science Olympiad Team Places In The Top 10

Congratulations to the American Heritage Schools, Palm Beach Campus, Junior High Science Olympiad Teams for their successful performances at this year's Science Olympiad Regional Tournament. The event, hosted at Florida Atlantic University (FAU), included over 60 teams and nearly 800 students.

During the competition, the Heritage Science Olympiad team placed 6th overall, with top places in different categories. 

Here are the awards per category:

Write it Do it - 2nd Place - Angie Isaac and Norah Smucker
BioProcess Lab - 2nd place - Liam Price and Shiv Pillai
Disease Detective - 2nd Place - Aria Gozzo and Victoria Von Schimmelmann
Meteorology - 3rd Place - Sabrina Velasco and Connor Pierre-Louis
Fast Facts - 3rd place - Luke Isaac and Victoria Von Schimmelmann
Solar System - 4th Place - Liam Price and Angie Isaac
Rocks and Minerals - 4th Place - Angie Isaac and Celina Chen
Experimental Design - 5th Place - Kasey Moore and Aria Gozzo and Angie Isaac
Storm the Castle - 6th Place Liam Price and Luke Isaac
Flight - 6th Place - Jax Martin and Shiv Pillai
Green Generation - 6th Place- Aria Gozzo and Victoria Von Schimmelmann
Forestry - 6th Place - Norah Smucker and Connor Pierre-Louis

Science Olympiad (SO) is a science tournament held every February on Florida Atlantic University’s Boca Raton campus. Around 300 other regional tournaments are also held about the same time on campuses of other universities all around the country. SO involves hands-on team competition between local high school (division C) and middle school (division B) teams in different areas of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).