Galvin Middle School
| Galvin Middle School | |
|---|---|
| Information | |
| Member of SO since | 2008 |
| Results History | |
| Best regional | N/A |
| Best state | 2nd place, 2012-2013 |
| Best nationals | never reached |
History and Info
Galvin Middle School is located in Wakefield, Massachusetts. Galvin holds grades 5-8 and it is the only middle school in town. There are approximately 300 students in each grade. Galvin feeds into Wakefield Memorial High School.
Galvin Middle School [GMS] started their science team in the year 2008. The team was comprised of students in grades 5,7, and 8. The team had around 20 competitors on it. In 2009 GMS will welcome students in grades 5-9 to be on the team. Meetings are held Tuesdays and Thursdays after school. Members are expected to go to one of these meetings although some choose to go to both.
The interest in science olympiad greatly increased in 2009. There were over sixty students involved in the club opposed to the twenty last year. For the 2009 season GMS had one regular team and one alternate team both composing of 15 students.
State Competition Results
In 2008, Galvin's first year of competition, they entered in 20 of the 23 events and received a score of 140 which put them in 6th place. The three events they didn't enter were Balloon-Launched Glider, Scrambler, and Robo-cross. The schools clear weakness is the building events. in 2008 they didn't enter 3 of them but the ones they did enter they scored in the top of the second tier. In 2009 GMS hopes to enter every event but that just may not be possible.
In 2009, the team finished third place overall falling just a few points shy of second place.
| Year | States | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 6th | |
| 2009 | 3rd | |
| 2010 | ||
| 2011 | ||
| 2012 | 2nd | 473 |
| 2013 | 2nd | 401 |
| 2014 | 6th | 607 |
| 2015 | 5th | 523 |
| 2016 | 3rd | 533 |
Individual Event Results
<spoiler text="2008 State Competition">
| Event | Place |
|---|---|
| Amphibians and Reptiles | 2nd |
| Anatomy | 2nd |
| BLG | 17th[NS] |
| Bio-Process Lab | 6th |
| Crave the Wave | 8th |
| Disease Detectives | 2nd |
| Ecology | 9th |
| Food Science | 5th |
| Meteorology | 3rd |
| Metric Mastery | 2nd |
| Mystery Architecture | 6th |
| Oceanography | 9th |
| Reach for the Stars | 3rd |
| Road Scholar | 2nd |
| Robo-cross | 17th[NS] |
| Rocks and Minerals | 4th |
| Science Crime Busters | 5th |
| Science Word | 5th |
| Scrambler | 17th[NS] |
| Simple Machines | 1st |
| Tower Building | 7th |
| Trajectory | 5th |
| Write it/Do it | 3rd |
| Total: 140 |
</spoiler> <spoiler text="2009 State Competition">
| Event | Place |
|---|---|
| Amphibians and Reptiles | 2nd |
| Anatomy | 2nd |
| Bio-Process Lab | 1st |
| Compute This | 1st |
| Crave the Wave | 4th |
| Disease Detectives | 1st |
| Dynamic Planet | 2nd |
| Ecology | 4th |
| Elevated Bridge | 5th |
| Environmental Chem | 4th |
| Experimental Design | 4th |
| Fossils | 3rd |
| Meteorology | 4th |
| Pentathlon | |
| Physical Science Lab | 2nd |
| Reach for the Stars | 2nd |
| Road Scholar | 4th |
| Robo-cross | 3rd |
| Science Crime Busters | |
| Scrambler | 5th |
| Trajectory | |
| Write it/Do it | |
| Total: >88 |
</spoiler> <spoiler text="2014 State Competition">
| Event | Place |
|---|---|
| Anatomy | 6th |
| Boomilever | 8th |
| Can't Judge a Powder | 5th |
| Crime Busters | 7th |
| Disease Detectives | 2nd |
| Dynamic Planet | 7th |
| Entomology | 12th |
| Experimental Design | 7th |
| Helicopters | 9th |
| Heredity | 9th |
| Meteorology | 20th |
| Metric Mastery | 3rd |
| Road Scholar | 13th |
| Robo-Cross | 5th |
| Rocks and Minerals | 3rd |
| Rotor Egg Drop | 23rd |
| Shock Value | 11th |
| Simple Machines | 6th |
| Solar System | 11th |
| Sounds of Music | 10th |
| Water Quality | 15th |
| Wheeled Vehicle | 11th |
| Write it/Do it | 18th |
| Total: 221 |
</spoiler> <spoiler text="2015 State Competition">
| Event | Place |
|---|---|
| Air Trajectory | 4th |
| Anatomy & Physiology | 10th |
| Bio-Process Lab | 8th |
| Bottle Rocket | N/A1 |
| Bridge Building | 15th |
| Can't Judge a Powder | 11th |
| Crave the Wave | 8th |
| Crime Busters | 8th |
| Disease Detectives | 3rd |
| Dynamic Planet | 5th |
| Elastic Launched Glider | 15th |
| Entomology | 7th |
| Experimental Design | 4th |
| Fossils | 6th |
| Green Generation | 11th |
| Meteorology | 7th |
| Picture This | 3rd |
| Road Scholar | 11th |
| Robo-Cross | 4th |
| Simple Machines | 14th |
| Solar System | 7th |
| Wheeled Vehicle | 10th |
| Write it/Do it | 10th |
| Total: 181 |
- 1: The event Bottle Rocket was not held and therefore did not count towards overall team score.
</spoiler>
Team Members
- Pleiades - '08,'09
- [ [ not marykate ] ] - '09
- Eathousemd - '08
- Luqavi - '08,'09
- NickDiCrusher - '08,'09
- Skyboy5