Mounds View High School
| Mounds View High School | |
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| Location | 1900 Lake Valentine Rd Arden Hills, MN 55112 |
| State |  Minnesota
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| Member of SO since | 2002 |
| Results History | |
| Best regional | 1st, 2025 (Most Recent Time) |
| Best state | 1st, 2024 (Most Recent Time) |
| Best nationals | 2nd, 2014 |
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| Website | Team Website |
Mounds View High School, located in Arden Hills, Minnesota, first competed in Science Olympiad during the 2001-2002 school year. It competed in the Bethel University Regional from 2002-2013 and began hosting a Regional Tournament in 2014.
Mounds View has won the Minnesota State Tournament 15 times, most recently in 2024, the most of any high school in Minnesota Science Olympiad history. The school reigned for nine years straight, from 2011-2019, before it was temporarily dethroned by Wayzata High School. At the 2014 National Tournament in Orlando, Florida, Mounds View finished 2nd, its highest national ranking ever. Mounds View has made the national podium two other times, reaching 5th in both 2015 and 2018.
Mounds View's feeder middle schools are Chippewa Middle School, the reigning champion of Division B in Minnesota, and Highview Middle School, which no longer has an active Science Olympiad team.
History
A dash (--) indicates that the team did not qualify.
| Year | Place at States | Place at Nationals | National Medals |
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| 2002 | 16th | -- | -- |
| 2003 | 2nd | -- | -- |
| 2004 | 1st | 42nd | Designer Genes (5th), Dynamic Planet (4th), Physics Lab (3rd) |
| 2005 | 1st | 29th | Fermi Questions (3rd) |
| 2006 | 1st | 38th | Practical Data Solving (3rd) |
| 2007 | 8th | -- | -- |
| 2008 | 1st | 28th | Ecology (2nd), Robot Ramble (6th), Flying Bird [trial] (6th), Junkyard Challenge [trial] (5th) |
| 2009 | 4th | -- | -- |
| 2010 | 7th | -- | -- |
| 2011 | 1st | 15th | Fossils (1st), Remote Sensing (6th) |
| 2012 | 1st | 22nd | Disease Detectives (6th) |
| 2013 | 1st | 7th | Designer Genes (3rd), Elastic Launched Glider (6th), Rocks & Minerals (1st) |
| 2014 | 1st | 2nd | Anatomy & Physiology (2nd), Boomilever (6th), Dynamic Planet (5th), Experimental Design (4th), Technical Problem Solving (3rd) |
| 2015 | 1st | 5th | Air Trajectory (2nd), Anatomy & Physiology (3rd), Chemistry Lab (5th), Compound Machines (2nd), Experimental Design (4th), Forensics (3rd), Scrambler (4th) |
| 2016 | 1st | 10th | Cell Biology (2nd), Chemistry Lab (6th), Disease Detectives (3rd), Electric Vehicle (1st), Wind Power (1st) |
| 2017 | 1st | 7th | Anatomy and Physiology (2nd), Dynamic Planet (2nd), Astronomy (3rd), Wind Power (3rd), Electric Vehicle (5th), Optics (5th), Robot Arm (6th), Indoor Bottle Rocket [trial] (1st) |
| 2018 | 1st | 5th | Forensics (1st), Hovercraft (1st), Disease Detectives (2nd), Fermi Questions (5th), Herpetology (5th), Materials Science (5th), Rocks and Minerals (5th), WiFi Lab [trial] (3rd) |
| 2019 | 1st | 17th | Fermi Questions (2nd), Forensics (2nd), Write It Do It (1st) |
| 2020 | 2nd | -- | -- |
| 2021 | 3rd | -- | -- |
| 2022 | 2nd | -- | -- |
| 2023 | 1st | 32nd | -- |
| 2024 | 1st | 33rd | -- |