What an amazing performance at Westlake this weekend! Hudson Middle School brought home the hardware, winning 18 sets of medals, finishing 5th overall, and placing 5th in the Super Team Rankings.
To put this performance into context, there were 32 schools and 61 total teams. Eight-time national champion Solon Middle School was edged out by Jeffery Trail (California) for first place. Two-time national champion Daniel Wright Junior High (Illinois) finished in third, current defending National Champion Kennedy Middle School (California) finished in fourth place, Hudson Middle School finished in fifth place, and Timberline Middle School (Washington State) finished in sixth place. In total there were teams from 9 different states, and 15 schools from Ohio. Beachwood (9th), Granville (15th), Kentson (18th) place, Westlake (19th), Mentor Memorial (21st), Timberstone (23rd), Rocky River (33rd), Arbor Hills (36th), West Liberty (37th), McCord (40th), Mentor Shore (42nd), Copley-Fairlawn (44th), and Seton Catholic (46th).
Our Hudson Middle School White team finished in 20th place, and our Gray team finished in 48th place. Well done!
While there were a number of outstanding performances on our team, we need to highlight our Road Scholar duo of Audra and Luke. They were the only team that earned a 1st place medal. On top of that, they crushed their competition, scoring 20 more points in their event than the second place finisher in Road Scholar, Solon – A!
Congratulations to our Build Team, which averaged 10th place in all five building events, including a 2nd place finish in Ping Pong Parachute.
Thank you to all of our event mentors that continue to pour hours of time and effort into providing our students with an opportunity to learn and love science. Thank you to the NEOHSTEM Alliance and Hudson Middle School Administration for their continued support!
GO HUDSON!
Medals
1st Road Scholar: Audra/Luke
2nd Ornithology: Gemma/Evan
2nd Machines Device: Erica/Keven
2nd Ping Pong Parachute: Noah/Luke
3rd Machines Device: Ian/Ben
4th Machines Test: Erica/Keven
4th Crime Busters: Sherry/Sherry
4th Experimental Design: Audra, Ethan, Daniel
4th Road Scholar: Ian/Jack
5th Botany: Gemma/Evan
5th Codebusters: Ethan/Daniel
5th Density Lab: Sherry/Jenny
6th Meteorology: Ethan/Noah
6th Density Lab: Hannah/Jerry
7th Disease Detectives: Alex/Sherry
7th Machines Device: Selina
8th Game On: Daniel/Jenny
8th Solar Power: Keven/Jenny