Science Olympiad

March 7, 2023

Cherissa Dukelow

Science Olympiad 2023 winning team "Bazinga!" posing with Bus 142 in the High Bay Structural Testing Lab at ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ's Joseph E. Usibelli Engineering Learning and Innovation Building.

Above: Winning team "Bazinga!" posing with in the High Bay Structural Testing Lab at
ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ's Joseph E. Usibelli Engineering Learning and Innovation Building.

ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ EPSCoR, the ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ College of Engineering and Mines (CEM), and the ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ College of Natural Science and Mathematics (CNSM) organized Science Olympiad for the first time at ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ! Students from across ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ competed in 16 events, ranging from written subject tests to construction of bridges, planes and trebuchets.

Winning teams:

1st Place - Bazinga, Discovery Peak Charter School, North Pole, AK
2nd Place - Fairbanks BEST Science Team, Fairbanks, BEST home school, Fairbanks, AK
3rd Place - Barnette Blazers, Barnette Magnet School, Fairbanks, AK


First place winners, Bazinga from Discovery Peak Charter School will go on to compete in the national Science Olympiad at Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas on May 19-20.