{"id":8347,"date":"2017-02-28T16:00:36","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T00:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=8347"},"modified":"2017-03-01T14:57:19","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T22:57:19","slug":"four-pylusd-schools-participate-in-orange-county-regional-science-olympiad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=8347","title":{"rendered":"Four PYLUSD schools participate in Orange County Regional Science Olympiad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four PYLUSD schools \u2013 Kraemer Middle School, El Dorado High School, Valencia High School and Yorba Linda High School \u2013 participated in the Orange County Regional Science Olympiad on Saturday, Feb. 11, at the University of California, Irvine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kraemer<\/strong><br \/>\nCongratulations to the Kraemer Science Olympiad team, which took second place in the Orange County Regional competition in Division B. Kraemer was only 15 points away from capturing the crown. Their runner-up finish qualifies them for the state finals at Caltech next month, where they will battle it out with rival Jeffrey Trail Middle School for a trip to the national championship! The Kraemer Science Olympiad team is coached by Mr. Shaun Evola, who teaches seventh grade science.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/kraemer-science-olympiad-team-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8353\" src=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/kraemer-science-olympiad-team-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/kraemer-science-olympiad-team-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/kraemer-science-olympiad-team-1.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>El Dorado<\/strong><br \/>\nThis was El Dorado&#8217;s first time participated in this event, and they took home 17th place! The Golden Hawks competed in Division C, and the team leader was advanced placement (AP) physics and chemistry teacher Mrs. Jessica Dutton.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/el-dorado-science-olympiad-team-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8349\" src=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/el-dorado-science-olympiad-team-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/el-dorado-science-olympiad-team-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/el-dorado-science-olympiad-team-2.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/el-dorado-science-olympiad-team-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8350\" src=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/el-dorado-science-olympiad-team-3-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/el-dorado-science-olympiad-team-3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/el-dorado-science-olympiad-team-3.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/el-dorado-science-olympiad-team-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8351\" src=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/el-dorado-science-olympiad-team-4-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/el-dorado-science-olympiad-team-4-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/el-dorado-science-olympiad-team-4.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/el-dorado-science-olympiad-team-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8352\" src=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/el-dorado-science-olympiad-team-5-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/el-dorado-science-olympiad-team-5-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/el-dorado-science-olympiad-team-5.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Valencia<\/strong><br \/>\nValencia placed eighth at Regionals this year. The students who received medals are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ben Nguyen and Michael Huang \u2013 third place in Chemistry Lab<\/li>\n<li>Jiwon Jeong and Verna Chang \u2013 fourth place in Dynamic Planet<\/li>\n<li>Meghan Wang, Michael Huang and Ben Nguyen \u2013 sixth place in Experimental Design<\/li>\n<li>Michael Huang and Ben Nguyen \u2013 sixth place in Materials Science<\/li>\n<li>Erika and Erin Kim \u2013 third place in Write It Do It<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Great work Tigers!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/valencia-science-olympiad-team-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8354\" src=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/valencia-science-olympiad-team-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/valencia-science-olympiad-team-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/valencia-science-olympiad-team-1.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yorba Linda<\/strong><br \/>\nYorba Linda sophomore Blake Han earned a fifth place medal in the Helicopters event. The team finished 22nd out of 31 teams.<\/p>\n<p>To view all of the results, click <a href=\"http:\/\/stem.ocde.us\/team-information.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four PYLUSD schools \u2013 Kraemer Middle School, El Dorado High School, Valencia High School and Yorba Linda High School \u2013 participated in the Orange County&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1177,1178],"tags":[17,120,13,144],"class_list":["post-8347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-high-school","category-middle-school","tag-el-dorado-high-school","tag-kraemer-middle-school","tag-valencia-high-school","tag-yorba-linda-high-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}