Oakdale High Science Olympians Rocked the Regionals!

Regional medals:

Gold team:  1st place at Regionals again, earning a place at the NorCal state event. 

Every gold team member got at least one medal.<br> 
Dynamic Planet 1st; Madison Lane, Paul Perrone
Ecology 2nd; Fernando Cruz, JT Vizenor
Helicopters 2nd; Ryan Gilpin, Pablo Rodriguez
Ornithology 3rd; Chris Ng, Trevor White
Sumo bots 3rd; Andrew Gilpin, Madison Lane
Write-it Do-it 3rd; Paul Perrone, JT Vizenor
Mousetrap vehicle 3rd; Ryan Gilpin, Paul Perrone
Astronomy 3rd place; Fernando Cruz, Pablo Rodriguez
Experimental Design 3rd; Ryan Gilpin, JT Vizenor
Protein Modeling 3rd; Erika Villa, Trevor White, Danny Wong
Mission Possible 4th; Andrew Gilpin, Madison Lane, Paul Perrone
Forensics 5th; Chris Ng, Pablo Rodriguez
Fossils 5th; Julie Bolme, Madison Lane
Sounds of Music 5th; Julie Bolme, Rakel Mendoza

Red team medals:

Experimental Design 1st; Emily Bradley, Mason Schmidt
Helicopters 3rd; Thomas Dempsey, Ryan Tanis,
Sound of Music 4th; Sabrina Bell, Ryan Tanis

State medals were:

1st place medal Write-it Do it: JT and Paul. 
5th place medal in Sumobot; Andrew  
5th place medal in Helicopters:  Pablo and Ryan.  

For the NorCal state competition, Erika Villa could not attend, so was replaced by Mason Schmidt
Including a total of 8 top ten finishes, we managed to place 15th overall out of the 24 best teams that Northern California had to offer.  We continued to beat Modesto High, Modesto Christian, and Downey, the other teams in our Region. 

Mr. Cameron Nickerson