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Senior football star Martin Strenk shines on the field and continues to excel in the classroom as well.

The standout student-athlete came back from a serious injury and recently posted three touchdowns in a win over Scranton in the District 2 Class AAAA championship game.

"He is a very tough player who is an excellent student and just an overall great kid," football coach Keith Olsommer said."

Strenk is a four-year member of the football team, of which he is a captain, and the wrestling and lacrosse teams. He also is a member of student council and Teens Against Tobacco Use. He volunteers for Relay for Life, the canned food drive, CROP walk and local highway clean-ups.

"I would love to be remembered as a person who worked hard to get what I got," Strenk said.

He hopes to attend the University of Pennsylvania, Roger Williams University or North Carolina State in the fall.

"We are really going to miss him," Olsommer said.

Source: Scranton Times-Tribune

Area schools gather on campus for Science Olympiad Regional Tournament on Feb. 11

GOSHEN, Ind. – Science Olympiad teams from 10 area schools will gather on the Goshen College campus on Saturday, Feb. 11 to compete in over 30 events, ranging from astronomy to food science to rocks, for the annual Science Olympiad Regional Tournament.

Modeled after the Olympic games, participating schools field teams of 15 students, who prepare to compete in a variety of science events at the regional and state competitions. Nearly all of the events are hands-on, making them more meaningful and fun for the students. Volunteers, many of which are Goshen College science students and faculty/staff, will oversee and judge the events.

With approximately 180 students participating, two middle school teams and one high school team will advance to the state tournament. A wild card tournament for teams who almost qualified for the state tournament will be held on Saturday, March 10 at Ivy Tech Community College in Lafayette to fill any remaining spots at the state tournament. This year's state competition will be held at Indiana University Bloomington on Saturday, March 24. The national tournament will be held May 18-19 at the University of Central Florida, in Orlando, Fla....

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by North Shore Country Day School

North Shore Country Day will host over 300 students from 13 schools for the Middle School Science Olympiad Invitational on February 4 from 8 – 4:45 p.m. Science Olympiad is a national organization that holds competitions for 23 science events at the regional, state and national level. The event incorporates all areas of science into one competition: biology, chemistry, earth science and physics combined with engineering and technology applications.

Schools competing at the Invitational include: Attea Middle, Daniel Wright Middle, Francis W. Parker, Grayslake Middle, Haven Middle, Latin School of Chicago, Marie Murphy Middle, North Park Elementary, North Shore Country Day, Old Orchard Junior High, Park View Junior High, South Middle and Springman Junior High.

This year the competition includes the following 23 events: Anatomy,Awesome Aquifers, Bottle Rockets, Compute This, Disease Detectives, Dynamic Planet, Experimental Design, Food Science, Forestry, Keep the Heat (thermodynamics), Meteorology, Microbe Mission, Mission Possible (Rube Goldberg like device), Mousetrap, Vehicle, Optics, Reach for the Stars (astronomy), Road Scholars (map reading), Rocks and Minerals, Science Crimebusters, Storm the Castle (trebuchet), Towers, Water Quality and Write It Do it (technical writing).

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