Teeland students win bronze at national Science Olympiad

Tyler Olson and Shannon Guinn took the bronze medal in Wright Stuff, an aviation category named from the Wright Brothers. Competitors had to build and fly a rubber-band powered plane.

Fred Keller of Wasilla was their coach. Students from Teeland also won medals in 2008 and 2007.

The Valley students competed against the teams from 46 other states made up of 120 teams that got to the national tournament by excelling at state or regional contests.

This year’s contests included launching trajectory devices, building towers, electric vehicles and robo-cross devices, matching wits in food science, chemistry and ecology, and solving world health pandemics as disease detectives. In 2010,

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will award four-year, full-ride scholarships for all high school (Division C) gold medal winners, valued at more than $90,000.