The Revere High School Science Olympiad team won ABA regional level and qualified for state competition, ranking fifteenth in the state of Ohio.

Head coach of the Science Olympiad team and science teacher Jeffrey Shane described the purpose of Science Olympiad.

“[Science Olympiad] is a competition of 23 different events covering all of the areas of science and technology and even some computer work and things like that. Every student that competes must compete in at least two and at most five different events and they compete from throughout seven or eight different states,” Shane said.

Four year member of Science Olympiad and senior Leah Weisburn mentioned why she decided to join the Science Olympiad team.

“I heard about the team in sixth grade and attended a meeting just to learn what it was. I learned that I could explore so much about science outside of the standard curriculum, especially in middle school.  It is a great opportunity to explore interests,” Weisburn said.

Shane explained why he decided to start coaching the Science Olympiad team twenty years ago.

“A former Revere teacher named Mr. Stark started the team. He said that it would be a fun time and that he needed help with it and I was hooked because it really was fun,” Shane said.

Shane mentioned how each student receives his or her assignment for each competition.

“The students pick two to five events and they work on them and study for them, sometimes they have to build things like planes and cars and robots or other times it is just tests that they study for. They usually have partners and they work on their specific material and they do a practice invitational and see how they do and what they need to work on,” Shane said.

Senior member of the Science Olympiad team Matt Fiedler described the preparation that the students must go through before each competition.

“To prepare for each competition you basically just have to sit down and study the material for each event you have. In the case of a building event, you just have to keep building the objects until it is the best it can be,” Fiedler said.

The Science Olympiad team’s seniors include Russel Ahsan, Natalie Allen, Victoria Deng, Matt Fiedler, Katie Hanus, Walker Keaton, Matthew Kemer, Shelby Kohmann, Bharat Kumar, Mark Oleson, Asha Ravichandran, Tim Steiner, Sathwika Thodeti, Henry Wathen and Leah Weisburn. The team finished with a 172-69 record in regional competition.