North Pocono High School

North Pocono High School
Location	97 Bochicchio Blvd Covington Township, PA 18444
State	Pennsylvania
Region	Northeast Pennsylvania
Map	North Pocono High School
Information
Member of SO since	2000
Teams	3
Colors	Red,      White,      Black
Feeds from	North Pocono Middle School
Tournament Host	North Pocono Invitational
Results History
Best regional	1st, 2014-2016, 2019
Best state	7th, 2022
Best nationals	Never qualified

North Pocono High School is a Division C team located in Covington Twp, Pennsylvania. They compete in the Northeast Pennsylvania region. North Pocono has an active science Olympiad Team comprised of between 30 and 40 students, which is large for a school of only 1000 students.

About

North Pocono uses an open system for its team. Anyone can join the team and each tournament's competing team is determined by the 15 people on the team who are present who will serve the team best given the scheduling, their ability, and their strengths.

The North Pocono Middle School had a Science Olympiad team in 2012 and in 2013. The Junior High Team the team returned in 2019.

Invitational

North Pocono started its own invitational for 2017 which is simply referred to as the North Pocono Invitational.

Results

Results History

Year	Regionals	Top 5s	Team Score	States	Top 10s	Team Score
2010	23rd	3rd: Egg-O-Naut, Picture This	502	-	-	-
2011	9th	1st: Experimental Design 4th: Forensics; Sounds of Music 5th: Microbe Mission; Sumo Bots	264	-	-	-
2012	4th	1st: Gravity Car; Helicopters 2nd: Robot Arm; Write it Do it 3rd: Disease Detectives 4th:Astronomy; Rocks and Minerals 5th: Protein Modeling; Optics; Towers	160	19th	4th: Helicopters 5th: Sounds of Music 7th: Robot Arm 9th: Gravity Vehicle	454
2013	3rd	1st: Water Quality 2nd: Circuit Lab; Dynamic Planet; Forensics; Gravity Vehicle; MagLev; Materials Science; Rocks and Minerals 3rd: Elastic Launched Glider; Experimental design; 4th:Astronomy; Fermi Questions	141	11th	4th: Water Quality 6th: Forensics, Mag Lev 7th: Circuit Lab, Gravity Vehicle, Material Science 8th: Fermi Questions, Write It, Do It 9th: Elastic Launch Glider	374
2014	1st	1st: Designer Genes, Entomology, Experimental Design, Forensics, MagLev, Mission Possible, Rocks and Minerals, Write It - Do It 2nd: Circuit Lab, Dynamic Planet, Elastic Launched Glider, Scrambler 3rd: Technical Problem Solving 4th:Chemistry Lab, Disease Detectives, Geologic Mapping 5th: Materials Science	76	10th	1st: MagLev, 2nd: Write It/Do It, 5th: Materials Science, Scrambler 6th: Entomology, Mission Possible 7th: Chemistry Lab 9th: Geologic Mapping	319
2015	1st	1st: Air Trajectory, Entomology, Forensics, It's About Time, Scrabler, Write It / Do It 2nd: Anatomy and Physiology, Disease Detectives, Dynamic Planet, Compound Machine, Protein Modeling, and Wright Stuff 3rd: Geologic Mapping, Mission Possible 5th: Cell Biology, Technical Problem Solving	85	11th	1st: Bungee Drop 3rd: Mission Possible, Write It/Do It 5th: Scrambler 9th: Air Trajectory 10th: Anatomy and Physiology, Disease Detectives, Protein Modeling	348
2016	1st	1st: Write It Do It 2nd: Bridge Building, Chem Lab, Experimental Design, Game On, Wind Power 3rd: Air Trajectory, Astronomy, Disease Detectives, Electric Vehicle, Protein Modeling, Wright Stuff 4th: Anatomy & Physiology, Dynamic Planet, Forensics, Green Generation, Hydrogeology, Invasive Species, Robot Arm 5th: Cell Biology, Geologic Mapping, It's About Time	80	10th	3rd: Write It / Do It 5th: Forensics 6th: Wind Power 7th: Air Trajectory 9th: Game On 10th: Anatomy and Physiology	342
2017	3rd	1st: Hydrogeology 2nd: Astronomy, Remote Sensing 3rd: Microbe Mission. Hovercraft, Ecology 4th: Experimental Design, Disease detectives, Anatomy and Physiology, Write It Do It, Rocks and Minerals, Ecology, Wind Power, Helicopters 5th: Electric Vehicle	127	9th	4th: Hovercraft, Hydrogeology 6th: Wind Power 9th: Disease Detectives, Experimental Design, Microbe Mission, Rocks and Minerals 10th: Ecology, Material Science	300
2018	2nd	1st: Astronomy, Chemistry Lab, Disease Detectives, Forensics, Hovercraft, Materials Science, Optics, Rocks and Minerals, Towers, Write It / Do It 2nd: Anatomy and Physiology 3rd: Fermi Questions, Thermodynamics 4th: Mousetrap Vehicle 5th:Dynamic Planet, Game On, Herpetology	92	9th	3rd: Rocks and Minerals 4th: Optics 5th: Experimental Design, Game On 7th Material Science 9th: Hovercraft, Thermodynamics, Write It Do It 10th: Helicopters,	313
2019	1st	1st: Circuits, Disease Detectives, Dynamic Planet, Protein Modeling 2nd: Anatomy and Physiology, Chemistry Lab, Forensics, Fossils 3rd: CodeBusters, Fermi Questions, Herpetology, Thermodynamics, Wright Stuff 4th: Experimental Design 5th: Boomilver, Designer Genes	104	14th	4th: Write It / Do It 5th: Mousetrap Car 9th: Disease Detectives 10th: Sounds of Music, Wright Stuff	372
2020	n	no tournament because of COVID	#	n	no tournament because of COVID	#
2021	2nd	1st: Anatomy and Physiology, Chemistry Lab, Codebusters, Designer Genes, Detector Building, Experimental Design, Gravity Vehicle, Machines, and Ornithology 2nd: Geologic Mapping and Sounds of Music 3rd: Circuit Lab and Fossils 4th: Boomilver	75	15th	2nd: Experimental Design 3rd: Chemistry Lab 6th Gravity Vehicle*** 8th Boomilever*** 9th Machines, Write It CAD It***	408
2022	3rd	1st: Anatomy and Physiology, Cell Biology, Gravity Vehicle, Ping Pong Parachute, and WiFi Lab 2nd: Codebusters, Disease Detectives, Experimental Design, and Write It Do It-Writer 3rd: Astronomy, Chem Lab, and Remote Sensing 4th: Detector Building, Forensics, and Wright Stuff	96	7th	1st: Experimental Design, Wi-Fi Lab 3rd: Icthyology*** 4th: Its About Time 5th: Forensics, Ping Pong Parachute 6th: Anatomy, Gravity Vehicle 8th: Bridges, Cell Biology, Codebusters, Wright Stuff 9th: Trajectory 10th: Disease Detectives	297

Trial Events - ***

Coaches

Coaching History

Years	Head Coach	Assistant Coaches	Event mentors
2000-2003	Stew Thomas	-	-
2004-2008	Madelyn Prosachik	-	-
2009-2010	Lindsay Croom	-	-
2011	Lindsay Croom	J Croom	Frank Torquato - Sounds of Music
2012	Lindsay Croom	J Croom	Frank Torquato - Sounds of Music Joe Serrenti - Sounds of Music Mike Hricko - Building Events Maria Pettinato - Water Quality & Rocks and Minerals Maria Semidei-Barett - Forensics
2013	Lindsay Croom	J Croom Mike Hricko	Maria Pettinato - Water Quality & Rocks and Minerals Madelyn Prosachik - Technical Problem Solving & Disease Detectives
2014	Lindsay Croom	J Croom Mike Hricko	Maria Pettinato - Entomology, Water Quality & Rocks and Minerals Madelyn Prosachik - Designer Genes & Forensics
2015	Lindsay Croom	J Croom Mike Hricko	Megan Arvonio - Protein Modeling Dawne Scheller - Chemistry Lab Maria Pettinato - Green Generation & Cell Biology Maria Semidei Barrett- Technical Problem Solving
2016	Lindsay Croom	J Croom Mike Hricko	Doug Mallas - Anatomy & Game On Kara Stanton - Cell Bio & Invasive Species Maria Pettinato - Green Generation, Hydrogeology, & Geologic Mapping
2017	Lindsay Croom	J Croom Doug Mallas Kara Stanton	Dawne Scheller - Chemistry Lab Mike Hricko - Hovercraft Maria Pettinato - Hydrogeology
2018	Lindsay Croom	J Croom Doug Mallas Kara Stanton	Dawne Scheller - Chemistry Lab & Material Science Nathan Jones - Hovercraft
2019	Lindsay Croom	J Croom Doug Mallas Kara Stanton Ellen Raguckas (JH) Mallory Mokay (JH)	Sue Bendinsky- Chemistry Lab Trevor Pawlik - Water Quality Spencer Austin - Circuit Lab Maria Pettinato - Water Quality
2020	Lindsay Croom	J Croom Doug Mallas Kara Stanton Ellen Raguckas (JH) Mallory Mokay (JH)	Sue Bendinsky Spencer Austin Mike Hricko Nathan Jones Spencer Austin Larry Dombek Jim DeRenzis
2021	Lindsay Croom	J Croom Doug Mallas Kara Stanton Ellen Raguckas (JH) Jim Derenzis (JH) Spencer Austin (JH)	Sue Bendinsky Mike Hricko Tevor Pawlik Matt Todaro John Slater
2022	Lindsay Croom	J Croom Tevor Pawlik Larry Dombek Ellen Raguckas (JH) Jim Derenzis (JH) Spencer Austin (JH)	Sue Bendinsky Dawne Scheller Doug Mallas Rachel Galassi John Slater Kara Stanton

All Dates including awards and coaching are for the competition year, not the school year. That is the year is based on March of the school year, not September.