Hudson Jennings (center) and Grayson Russell of Wiley Middle School place a “camera” onto a tripod made of paper, sticks and duct tape for the “Duct Tape Challenge” event ...

The middle school’s other medals included a second place in Wheeled Vehicle; thirds in Code Busters and Disease Detectives; fourths in Flight and Roller Coaster; and sixths in Write It Do It and ...

Math and science are a scream for the 12 students in the course “Roller Coasters: Theory, Design, and Properties,” at Bates College, in Lewiston, Me. The students study roller-coaster design ...

A Science Olympiad team from South Middle School ... Reach for the Stars, and Roller Coaster; sixth in Air Trajectory and Fossils; seventh in Codebusters and Disease Detectives; eighth in Flight ...

Members of Urbana High’s Science Olympiad team show off their ... “The second-place finish was unexpected. Kind of a roller-coaster. When it happened, it was bedlam. They were so happy.

“I don’t know what went wrong,” he conceded, noting he was a last-minute substitute running a vehicle designed by a schoolmate for this week’s Science Olympiad Battery Buggy event at Penn ...