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BEST IN CLASS STUDENTS WIN SCIENCE HONORS.


Byline: Daily News

QUARTZ HILL - Students from Joe Walker Middle School took first place in three events and placed fifth overall during last month's state Science Olympiad Science olympiad may refer to:
  • The international science olympiads, a collection of secondary school competitions for some of the most talented pupils in the world
  • Science Olympiad, a high school and middle school competition held in the United States
.

Seventh-graders Clark Crane, Trent Hood and Louis Lucero II took first place in experimental design for solving a problem using proper scientific method techniques. Seventh-graders Michelle Rudney, Jamie Simmons and Emily Thompson won the Wright Stuff event for their rubber band-powered airplane that flew for two minutes, 29 seconds.

And first place in Mystery Architecture went to eighth-graders Amanda Stuart and Ian Legaspi, who had to build a structure from drinking straws that was the tallest and supported the most mass.

Crane and eighth-grader Joey Burleson won second place in the Can't Judge a Powder event, and eighth-graders Kyle Saylor and Ken Kelly Ken W. Kelly (born 1946)[1] is a fantasy artist.[2] Over his 30-year career, he has focused in particular on paintings in the sword and sorcery and heroic fantasy subgenres. Early in his career he trained under the famous Frank Frazetta.  won second place in Reach for the Stars, answering questions about the universe, solar system solar system, the sun and the surrounding planets, natural satellites, dwarf planets, asteroids, meteoroids, and comets that are bound by its gravity. The sun is by far the most massive part of the solar system, containing almost 99.9% of the system's total mass.  and stars.

Fourth-place awards were also earned by Simmons and eighth-grader David Vernor in Road Scholar; and Hood and Vernor in Robo Billiards billiards, any one of a number of games played with a tapered, leather-tipped stick called a cue and various numbers of balls on a rectangular, cloth-covered slate table with raised and cushioned edges. .

The Joe Walker students competed against 27 other teams in the competition, held at California State University Enrollment
, Long Beach.
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Publication:Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Date:Apr 8, 2003
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