Borough Science Olympiad teams to defend title

PALMER — The Mat-Su Borough School District’s reigning champion Science Olympiad team is heading into battle again this weekend.

Timothy Lundt, the district’s Science Olympiad coordinator and a teacher at Mat-Su Career and Tech High School, said that some heavy-hitters are back from last year’s team. But the competition — especially a team out of Eagle River — is going to be fierce.

“Hopefully things will work out in our favor, but you never know,” he said.

He invited the public out to watch events.

“Over 300 students from 19 middle school teams and 10 high school teams will be trying to knock off the defending state champions — Teeland Middle School and Mat-Su Career and Technical High School — and earn a spot at the National Science Olympiad Competition held May 16-17 at University of Central Florida in Orlando as they compete in 23 different events,” Lundt wrote in a press release.

The event is scheduled from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday at the University of Alaska Anchorage.

Events open to the public in the campus’ ConocoPhillips Science Building are: Boomilever, Roto-Cross, Wheeled Vehicle, Scrambler, Mission Possible, Rotor Egg Drop, Bungee Drop and MagLev. Two events open to the public are also going on in the university’s administration building: helicopters and elastic launch glider.

For more information, visit alaskascienceolympiad.org.