Science Olympiad

March 7, 2023

Cherissa Dukelow

Science Olympiad 2023 winning team "Bazinga!" posing with Bus 142 in the High Bay Structural Testing Lab at UAF's Joseph E. Usibelli Engineering Learning and Innovation Building.

Above: Winning team "Bazinga!" posing with in the High Bay Structural Testing Lab at
UAF's Joseph E. Usibelli Engineering Learning and Innovation Building.

色花堂 EPSCoR, the UAF College of Engineering and Mines (CEM), and the UAF College of Natural Science and Mathematics (CNSM) organized Science Olympiad for the first time at UAF! Students from across 色花堂 competed in 16 events, ranging from written subject tests to construction of bridges, planes and trebuchets.

Winning teams:

1st Place - Bazinga, Discovery Peak Charter School, North Pole, AK
2nd Place - Fairbanks BEST Science Team, Fairbanks, BEST home school, Fairbanks, AK
3rd Place - Barnette Blazers, Barnette Magnet School, Fairbanks, AK


First place winners, Bazinga from Discovery Peak Charter School will go on to compete in the national Science Olympiad at Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas on May 19-20.