Upper Schoolers Compete at Ohio Science Olympiad

Thirteen Upper Schoolers represented Seven Hills at the Ohio Science Olympiad tournament at Mason High School on Saturday, Nov. 11. Ohio Science Olympiad is an academic, interscholastic competition designed to increase student interest in science and to improve the quality of science education. Students compete in teams in various events.

Juniors Kyle Wang and Andrew Zhou placed second in detector building, where they had to build a durable device to accurately measures masses. Junior Ethan Hu and freshman Valmik Rahod placed fourth in Fermi questions, where they had to compute values to the correct order of magnitude for science-related questions. Sophomore Tyler Imrie and Kyle Wang earned fourth in microbe mission, by answering questions, solving problems, and analyzing data pertaining to microbes. Freshman Irene Zhang and sophomore Adam Schaefer took fourth in optics, which tested their principles of geometric and physical optics. The team of freshman Avery Wang, Zhang, and Schaefer took fifth in code busters, which tested their cryptanalysis skills.