MHMS SciOly
What is our highest ever placement at the State level?
Ninth Place
Which Divison B & C event interprets imagery, data, and maps related to Earth observation?
Remote Sensing
What is the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything?
42
In physics, this optical effect occurs when light bends as it passes from one medium to another with a different density.
What is refraction?
This English physicist and mathematician formulated the three fundamental laws of motion and universal gravitation.
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
What year was Merrol Hyde Science Olympiad founded?
2022-2023
This dedicated space—often a classroom, serves as the team’s central meeting spot between events on competition day.
What is Homeroom?
Which TV Series follows a group of physicists and engineering at the California Institute of Technology?
The Big Bang Theory
This layer of Earth’s atmosphere, located directly above the troposphere, contains the ozone layer that absorbs harmful ultraviolet radiation.
What is the stratosphere?
This Polish-born physicist and chemist was the first person to win two Nobel Prizes, recognized for their pioneering research on radioactivity.
Who is Marie Curie?
At which school did we have our first competition in?
Friendship Christian School
Where is the 2027 National Science Olympiad competition taking place?
Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio
In The Dark Knight, Batman shatters a heavy steel door lock by spraying it with liquid nitrogen before hitting it. This works because extreme cooling drops the steel below its ductile-to-brittle transition temperature, destroying its ability to absorb this mechanical property before fracturing.
What is toughness (or plasticity)?
This fundamental principle of geology states that in undeformed sedimentary rock layers, the oldest layers are on the bottom and the youngest are on top.
What is the Law of Superposition?
This Serbian-American engineer invented the alternating current (AC) induction motor and pioneered high-voltage electricity transmission.
Who is Nikola Tesla?
How many Science Olympiad members did we have during our first year of competition?
18
For Division C teams, this is the maximum number of 12th-grade students (seniors) allowed on the official 15-person roster.
What is 7?
In Marvel Comics, Magneto can manipulate magnetic fields to rip iron out of the ground or deflect bullets. This ability relies on this fundamental force of nature, which is unified with electricity in physics equations.
What is electromagnetism (or the electromagnetic force)?
Named after an Italian scientist, this constant (6.022×10236.022×1023) represents the number of particles in one mole of a substance.
What is Avogadro's number?
This Russian chemist formulated the Periodic Law and published the first widely recognized Periodic Table of elements in 1869.
Who is Dmitri Mendeleev?
What place did our Divison B team get during our first Regional tournament?
2nd Place
What is the retired Science Olympiad event in which teams must construct and tune one device prior to the tournament based on a one-octave 12-tone equal tempered scale and complete a written test on the physics of sound and music concepts?
Sounds of Music
In Spider-Man 2, Peter Parker shoots multiple webs to slow down a runaway subway train. To stop the train without the webbing snapping, the material must stretch significantly while under a load, showcasing a high capacity for this specific mechanical property defined as force per unit area.
What is tensile stress?
Expressed in meters per second squared, this acceleration value represents the standard pull of Earth's gravity at sea level.
What is 9.8 m/s29.8 m/s2 (or 9.81 m/s29.81 m/s2)?
Using X-ray crystallography, this chemist captured "Photo 51," which provided crucial data used to determine the double-helix structure of DNA.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?