This past Saturday morning November 19, 2011, over 300 grade school students swarmed upon the St. Ignatius campus to compete in our Annual St. Ignatius Science Olympiad competition sponsored by the science department. Over 15 teams competed in 12 events including the newly added competition called Spaghetti Bridge Building. Although every grade school took away ribbons and medals, the following teams were the big winners:
1st place: Notre Dame elementary school
2nd place: St Raphael
3rd Place: Seton Catholic
Our own student Science Olypiad team members were responsible for running each event and did a wonderful job. Bob Ward, Jerry DeCarlo, and Marilyn Gunsch added their time and effort to another successful science endeavor. A large “shout out” goes to the Science Olympiad guru, Tom Bogen. Tom spent months publicizing, organizing, prepping our students, communicating with grade school coaches and all of the other tasks that involve effort, and most importantly……TIME. If you see Tom Bogen today or tomorrow, give him the traditional Ignatius “one clap”…except this time “clap” him on the back for another job well-done.
