SOCORRO – Socorro students held their own during the state’s Science Olympiad at New Mexico Tech Saturday. Socorro High finished fourth overall out of a field of 24 high schools with 301 points.
Cottonwood Valley Charter School finished eighth in the middle school division with 240 points, and Sarracino Middle School finished 13th with 174 points.
The strongest teams were in Socorro’s Anatomy and Physiology, and Ornithology events, both earning first place in the state; and Charter School students, who took first place in Dynamic Planet, and Ornithology.
Sarracino finished fourth in Can’t Judge a Powder; sixth in Fossils and Write It Do It; seventh in Dynamic Planet and Science Crime Busters; eighth in Ornithology; and tenth in Compute This, Detectives, and Solar School.
The only other high schools that did better than Socorro in the high school division were Albuquerque Academy (412), Albuquerque Area Home Schoolers (400), and La Cueva High School (355).
Magdalena High School finished at 24th place with 27 points.
Socorro schools that placed in the top ten per event:
Socorro High School
1st. Anatomy and Ornithology.
3rd. Environmental Chemistry, It’s About Time, Picture This, Remote Sensing.
4th. Disease Detectives, Fossils, Mousetrap Vehicle.
5th. Cell Biology, Mission Possible.
8th. Dynamic Planet, Technical Problem Solving, Trajectory.
9th. Astronomy, Chemistry Lab, Forensics.
Cottonwood Valley
1st. Dynamic Planet, 1st Ornithology
2nd. Can’t Judge A Powder, Disease Detectives
3rd. Bio-process Labs, Meteoro-logy, Road Scholar
5th. Solar School, 7. Physical Science Lab, 10. Ecology
Sarracino Middle School
4th. Can’t Judge A Powder
6th. Fossils, Write It Do It
7th. Dynamic Planet
8th. Ornithology
10th. Compute This, Disease Detectives
Picture: Socorro High School took the top three spots in the competition for top-scoring seniors at the Science Olympiad on Saturday. From left: Moaaz Soliman (88 points), Mariah Deters (89) and Siddhartha Dhawan (85) were among 12 seniors to earn scholarships to New Mexico Tech for their efforts. Photo by Thom Guengerich/New Mexico Tech
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