Students Compete in Science Olympiad at Atkins

Katie Waugh of East Forsyth High School

On Saturday, 179 students - including ones from Piney Grove Middle, East Forsyth High and Atkins Academic & Technology High - competed in the Science Olympiad at Atkins.


They showed their knowledge of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) through such events as a bottle rocket launch, flying gliders that they designed and built and solving a crime scenario based on available evidence. Wake Forest University so-sponsored the event, and more than 40 volunteers from Wake Forest helped organize and supervise it. 


In the Sunday March 3 issue of the Winston-Salem Journal, reporter Richard Craver wrote about the event.


"It's really important for us to encourage students and young adults to be interested in science," Carole Brown, the director of the Olympiad and a biology professor at Wake Forest, told Craver.

For the full story, go to Winston-Salem Journal