Science Olympiad Teams Earns Trip to State Competition

I wanted to share results from the recent Science Olympiad tournament in Lynchburg. Medals were awarded to 1st-6th place in each event and trophies were awarded to 1st-5th place for overall school performance. I am thrilled to share that Tandem earned a 3rd place trophy, with an overall score only 3 points shy of the 2nd place score. That performance means that Tandem has qualified for the state tournament, where we are eligible to send a 15-person team to compete in the main events along with up to 2 alternates who can compete in trial events as well as main events should any of the 15-person team be unable to participate. The state tournament takes place Saturday, April 6 and is hosted at UVA. 

Everyone put in so much effort and had such positive energy and I am proud of them all. A big shoutout and thank you to Casey for being our assistant coach. Her help was vital to our success and I am so grateful to her. Another shoutout to Russell for driving down to cheer us on and to the Camarata family for cheering us and giving us a tour of the cool classroom spaces at VT (courtesy of alum Jacob C, TFS '23). 

Check out some photos taken this season (more here and more to come from the state tournament) and individual results are below.