CVHS Wins NorCal State Science Olympiad Tournament

CVHS defeated last year’s National runner-up last Saturday to win this year’s NorCal State Science Olympiad Tournament in Sacramento.

In a stunning upset, CVHS defeated last year’s National runner-up on Saturday, April 22, to win this year’s NorCal State Science Olympiad Tournament in Sacramento. Science Olympiad is one of the premiere science competitions in the country, where 5825 teams (87,000 middle and high school students) from across the country compete across 23 STEM events as far-flung as Anatomy, Flight, Forensics, Rocks and Minerals, and WiFi Lab.  In the middle school division, Creekside finished 7th and Canyon finished 11th amongst very strong competition. 

Becoming the sole qualifier from NorCal is particularly difficult, due to the extremely competitive nature of our state; in fact, the NorCal champion regularly places in the top 5 at Nationals. This year, CVHS had to beat last year's Nationals runner-up, Mountain View HS. It seemed very unlikely, based upon the results of earlier competitions in the season, but when the dust settled, CVHS emerged victorious. CVHS will represent Northern California at Nationals, to be held May 20 at Wichita State University in Kansas.

Nationals is a unique opportunity for CVHS to compete and mingle with top students throughout the country. There will be a celebratory Opening Ceremony with a Parade of States, in which students dress in costumes meant to represent their respective state. There is a Swap Meet, where students exchange state trinkets. There is the competition itself, where the best young scientific minds of our nation vie for medals and scholarships at the individual event level. Finally, there will be a formal awards ceremony, where our students, dressed in their best, find out who wins the right to call themselves best in the nation. 

On this journey, the state champions are asking for Castro Valley's help: this journey will cost $30,000; please consider donating to get them to Wichita. Contributions can be made @: https://bit.ly/cv4nationals