Middle school to host science Olympiad this weekend

RCS Middle School will host some of the best and brightest middle school science students this weekend.

The school will be home to the regional Middle School Science Olympiad competition on Saturday where students from around the Capital District will compete in 19 different events that challenge their scientific abilities. The competition titles range from trajectory – where students must use elastic as energy to launch a hollow ball at a sand covered platform - to the scrambler in which students have to design a car to run on a track with an egg attached to its bumper and stop just before it crashes into a wall.

Riding the success of last year’s RCS Middle School Science Olympiad team– which placed first in a regional competition – nearly twice as many RCS students joined this year’s team. As a result, club advisor and science teacher Jen Fisk has decided to field two competition teams this spring.

The RCS students have been meeting twice a week for months in preparation for the competition, Fisk said

For those interested in attending the Olympiad, the competition begins at 8 a.m. and the public can watch the technology events, Fisk said. Those are:

   • Trajectory (gym)

   • Car of tomorrow (technology hallway)

   • Scrambler (gym)

   • Tower Building (LGR)

    • Robo Cross (library)