March 14, 2008
Science Olympiad
Fifteen TCS students competed in the Science Olympiad Regional Competition at COD on Saturday, March 8. The TCS Science Olympiad Team included three sixth grade students: Riley DeHaan, Victoria Hart, Sam Sticha, eight seventh grade students: Kate Berens, Tim Huizinga, Kurt Munson, Bonnie VanDyk, Kyle Groters, Andrew Groenewold, Brendan Biesboer, Jason Kuiper, four eighth grade students: Emily Huizenga, Linnea Venhousen, Kelly Powers, Mike Hennel, and one alternate: 6th grade student Grace Berens.
This team of students competed in 23 events and finished overall in tenth place; impressive for a first time team! The team did incredibly well, exhibiting terrific attitudes and team spirit. To a student, they were respectful, responsible, happy representatives of Timothy Christian School. These students gave up many, many afternoons to prepare, and they were all at COD for nearly ten hours on Saturday. The team was coached by Ann Bakker and Michelle Berens with a huge amount of assistance and support from many parents and teachers.
Timothy students received medals in nine of the events:
Junkyard Challenge: 1st place – Jason Kuiper (Grace Berens)
Trajectory: 2nd place – Andrew Groenewold, Emily Huizenga
Scrambler: 2nd place – Sam Sticha, Tori Hart
Anatomy: 3rd place – Riley DeHaan, Kyle Groters
Rocks and Minerals 3rd place – Jason Kuiper, Kurt Munson
Simple Machines: 4th place – Kate Berens, Bonnie VanDyk
Road Scholar: 4th place – Andrew Groenewold, Bonnie VanDyk
Crave the Wave: 4th place – Andrew Groenewold, Tori Hart
Tower Building: 5th place – Mike Hennel, Brendan Biesboer