On the first of March, Calabasas’s Science Olympiad team placed seventeenth out of fifty-nine schools at a competition. The team, consisting of eleven students, competed in challenges based on helicopter building, entomology, and identifying fossils.

Science Olympiad is a STEM-based competition centered around competitions that can be about anything from engineering to life science. 

In the helicopter event, they had to build a machine, and whoever could keep theirs in the air the longest would get the highest score. 

In the entomology event, participants were tasked with determining what type of bug was presented to them, what family it came from, and whether it was a pest. Angelina Hiuriono and Jordan Lin placed third as a duo in this event.

In the fossil event, they had to figure out what type of dinosaur they were being shown and what time period it was from. 

“I loved it even though we got seventeenth place since doing the events themselves was fun and I got to hang out with my friends,” said Hiuriono.