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Boyceville Middle School Science Olympiad State Runner-Up, HS 6th Place Team
STEVENS POINT - The Boyceville Science Olympiad teams competed at the Wisconsin Science Olympiad state tournament at UW-Stevens Point this past weekend, with the middle school team finishing as the state runner-up team and the high school team earning the sixth place team trophy despite no divisions based on school size. This marks the fifteenth consecutive top six finish for the high school team at the state tournament and the twelfth consecutive top five finish for the middle school team at the state tournament.
Boyceville high school was by far the smallest team in the top six at the state tournament, with every other school having over (and sometimes well over) 1000 students. Boyceville Middle School was one of the smallest public schools to qualify for the state tournament.
With Boyceville High School’s fifteenth top six finish, they moved into fourth place among all schools in the state in the number of team awards earned at the state tournament, trailing only Madison West, Menomonie, and Racine Washington Park.
Boyceville Middle School’s third state runner up finish places them in a tie for third overall in the number of state runner-up finishes and fourth alone in the number of state top three finishes, trailing only Menomonie, Milwaukee Morse, and Madison Hamilton.
Boyceville students earned state championship gold medals in eight different events, with each pair of students winning a $1,000 scholarship to UW-Stevens Point. All together, Boyceville students earned $16,000 in scholarships to UW-Stevens Point at the state tournament, adding to the $9,000 total earned at the 2022 state tournament for a total of $25,000 earned over the two years in academic scholarships.
Boyceville High School medal winners were as follows:
State Championship gold medals were earned by the following:
Juniors Emily Fetzer and Delaney Olson in Horticulture
Sophomores Jon Madison and William Engel in Mystery Architecture (JV)
Silver medals were earned by the following:
Seniors Becca Wyss and Zach Kersten in Flight
Wyss and Kersten in Mystery Architecture
Senior Parker Coombs and Fetzer in Towers
Bronze medals were earned by the following:
Senior Peter Wheeldon and Coombs in Scrambler
Seniors Hannah Dunn and Alison McRoberts in Horticulture (JV)
Fourth place medals were earned by the following:
Senior Kylie Luedtke and sophomore Karen Schaff in Precision Medicine
Senior Cora Leslie and Dunn in Towers (JV)
Madison and Engel in Flight (JV)
Fifth place medals were earned by the following:
Wheeldon and Schaff in Geocaching
Kersten and Wheeldon in Robot Tour
Senior Treylin Thorson and Engel in Wind Power (JV)
Sixth place medals were earned by the following:
Coombs and Kersten in Air Trajectory
Coombs and Wheeldon in Wind Power
Madison and Engel in Scrambler (JV)
Dunn and Leslie in Write It, Do It (JV)
Boyceville Middle School medal winners were as follows:
State Championship gold medals were earned by the following:
Ninth graders Ava Dormanen and Emily Jackson in Horticulture
Eighth graders Walter Schaff and Eli Weber in Mystery Architecture
Ninth grader Kade Phillips and seventh grader Clayton Score in Robo Cross
Seventh grader Easton Lange and Score in Roller Coaster
Eighth grader Ivan Farrell and seventh grader Payton Lee in Flight (JV)
Sixth graders Aiden Feeney and Logan Monfort in Robo Cross (JV)
Silver medals were earned by the following:
Dormanen and E. Jackson in Crime Busters
Ninth graders Brady Rasmussen and Eleanor Farrell in Ecology
Rasmussen and seventh grader Sara Hafermann in Reach for the Stars
Eighth grader Isabelle Feeney and Score in Towers
Phillips and Lange in Wheeled Vehicle
Seventh graders Aubrie Humpal and Jillian Boesl in Flight (JV)
Ninth graders Devon Lee and Myles Keck in Geocaching (JV)
Ninth graders Isabelle Konsti and Sawyer Garbe in Write It, Do It (JV)
Bronze medals were earned by the following:
Lange and Phillips in Air Trajectory
Dormanen, Rasmussen, and E. Farrell in Experimental Design
Score and Lange in Flight
W. Schaff and Weber in Optics
W. Schaff and Weber in Wind Power
A. Feeney and Monfort in Mystery Architecture (JV)
Boesl & Humpal in Horticulture (JV)
Seventh graders Eli Cassellius and RJ Swenby in Roller Coaster
D. Lee and Keck in Towers
Fourth place medals were earned by the following:
Rasmussen and E. Farrell in Road Scholar
Humpal and Boesl in Towers (JV)
Cassellius and Swenby in Wheeled Vehicle (JV)
Seventh grader Charlie Chernak and sixth grader Elizabeth Tegart in Robo Cross (JV)
Fifth place medals were earned by the following:
E. Farrell and E. Jackson in Disease Detectives
Dormanen, E. Jackson, and E. Farrell in Picture This
Phillips and I. Feeney in Write It, Do It
Konsti and Garbe in Horticulture (JV)
Sixth place medals were earned by the following:
Score and Lange in Geocaching
Cassellius & Swenby in Flight (JV)
Eighth graders Tim Jackson and Arnold Sudbrink in Air Trajectory
“This was one of the most successful state tournaments I have ever participated in” said Boyceville Science Olympiad coach Andy Hamm. “I was so impressed with all of the hard work so many kids put in all year long and it definitely paid off with the team finishes at state. It was a really exciting day and our kids did an outstanding job of representing Boyceville. Our kids have had an amazing season capped by an outstanding state tournament. The excitement was unparalleled during the awards ceremony and I could not be more proud of our kids.”
Boyceville Science Olympiad is coached by Andy Hamm, Russ Riehbrandt, and Tony Pelikan.
Final Results of the Wisconsin Science Olympiad State Tournament
High School Results - Varsity Teams Only
Rank | School | Score |
1 | Marquette University HS | 39 |
2 | Madison West | 72 |
3 | Hudson | 144 |
4 | Slinger | 162 |
5 | Menomonie | 178 |
6 | Boyceville | 263 |
7 | Belleville | 313 |
8 | Medford | 316 |
9 | Wausau West | 358 |
10 | Brookfield East | 364 |
11 | Middleton | 373 |
12 | Pewaukee | 375 |
13 | Madison Country Day | 382 |
14 | New Richmond | 403 |
15 | Beloit Turner | 409 |
16 | Brookfield Central | 415 |
17 | Cambridge | 435 |
18 | Sheboygan North | 439 |
19 | Baldwin-Woodville | 478 |
20 | Kohler | 481 |
21 | Marshall | 490 |
22 | Shell Lake | 495 |
23 | Mount Horeb | 496 |
24 | Madison La Follette | 498 |
25 | Unity | 500 |
26 | Waunakee | 503 |
27 | Franklin | 507 |
28 | Wautoma | 530 |
29 | Racine Prairie | 547 |
30 | Lakeland Union | 559 |
31 | Platteville | 560 |
32 | Westfield Area | 561 |
33 | Campbellsport | 572 |
34 | Elmwood | 581 |
35 | Weyauwega-Fremont | 586 |
36 | Colfax | 630 |
37 | Poynette | 632 |
38 | St. John’s Northwestern Academy | 714 |
39 | West Bend | 747 |
40 | Elk Mound | 761 |
41 | Denmark | 770 |
42 | Horicon | 782 |
43 | Pittsville | 816 |
44 | Neenah | 840 |
45 | Evansville | 854 |
46 | Madison Edgewood | 858 |
47 | Eleva-Strum | 953 |
Middle School Results - Varsity Teams Only
Rank | School | Score |
1 | Madison Hamilton | 28 |
2 | Boyceville | 103 |
3 | Menomonie | 125 |
4 | Eau Claire South | 154 |
5 | Platteville | 156 |
6 | Madison Eagle | 174 |
7 | Brookfield Pilgrim Park | 177 |
8 | Evansville JC McKenna | 193 |
9 | Sparta STEM | 195 |
10 | Hudson | 197 |
11 | Waunakee | 201 |
12 | Unity | 218 |
13 | Monona Grove Glacial Drumlin | 223 |
14 | Madison Country Day | 235 |
15 | Beloit Turner | 289 |
16 | Cambridge Nikolay | 332 |
17 | Elmwood | 333 |
18 | Westfield Area | 349 |
19 | Campbellsport | 352 |
20 | Mount Horeb | 372 |
21 | Hartford University | 388 |
22 | Cadott | 420 |
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