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The Daily Star
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The following results were recorded:
A-Team
Anatomy: fourth, Molly O’Brien and Jennifer Blunt
Boomilever: Gold, Caroline Davis and Nick Sprague
Crime Busters: fourth, Blunt and Gabrielle Martin
Disease Detectives: Bronze, Samantha Vickery and Christine Iannello
Dynamic Planet: Bronze, Beau O’Donnell and Isabel Battista
Endangered, Extinct and Exotic: Gold, Justina Jordan and Sprague
Forestry: fifth, Sprague and Blunt
Heredity: fourth, Devin Kuhn and Iannello
Meteorology: sixth, O’Donnell and Battista
Mousetrap Vehicle: Silver, Sprague and O’Donnell
Mystery Architecture: Gold, Sprague and Martin
Reach for the Stars: fourth, Jordan and Battista
Road Scholar: sixth, O’Brien and Battista
Rocks and Minerals: Gold, O’Donnell and Battista
Shock Value: seventh, Jordan and Caroline Davis
Water Quality: Silver, Blunt and Martin
Write It/Do It: sixth, Vickery and Blunt
B-Team
Anatomy: seventh, Savannah Boyle and Skyler Fullington
Boomilever: Silver, Matt Accordino and Boyle
Crime Busters: Morgan Sullivan and Fullington
Disease Detectives: sixth, Nick Dorrance and Accordino
Dynamic Planet: Cara Suess
Endangered, Extinct and Exotic: Jessi-lyn Borfitz and Fullington
Forestry: Borfitz and Fullington
Heredity: Morgan Sullivan and Boyle
Meteorology: Suess and Sullivan
Mousetrap Vehicle: sixth, Borfitz and Dorrance
Mystery Architecture, fourth, Dorrance
Reach for the Stars: Suess
Road Scholar: Suess and Sullivan
Rocks and Minerals: Suess and Sullivan
Shock Value: Accordino
Water Quality: Dorrance
Write It /Do It: fifth, Dorrance and Sullivan
The team will work to improve the 17 events from regionals and become proficient in an eight more events for states. The new will be Experimental Design, Food Science, Helicopters, Keep the Heat, Metric Mastery, Mission Possible, Rotor Egg Drop and Sounds of Music.
The team is coached by Fred Zimmerman, Jamie Kellerhouse, Jessica Boyer, Al Vigna, Joan Kemp and Jason Stevenson. Volunteer assistant coaches are Paul Gossen, Robert Titus and Roger Hickey.
