Mount Pulaski High School Worldwide Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE) Team placed second recently in regional competition. MPHS 2015-16 WYSE Team front row: Lukas Aylesworth, Brian Batchelder, Emaleigh Berry, Max Coppinger, Dalton Dierker, Zac Drake and Josh Dyer. Back row: Lizzie Ford, Eli Griesheim, Miranda Hilliard, Kurtis Hoock, Morgan Kinniard, Eli Olson and Elizabeth Siebert

Logan County students place in Science and Engineering regional academic competition

[February 16, 2016]  LINCOLN - The Mount Pulaski High School Worldwide Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE) Team placed second recently in regional competition at Lincoln Land Community College. The team will advance to sectional competition at Illinois College in Jacksonville on March 8.

According to the LLCC website, "More than 350 students from 22 high schools in the Lincoln Land Community College District competed in the annual WYSE regional level academic challenge Tuesday, February 2 at the LLCC-Springfield campus.

Students competed as individuals and as teams testing in their choice of two to seven different subjects - biology, chemistry, computer science, engineering graphics, English, mathematics and physics. The tests are written by teams of college and university faculty and are designed to present a challenge to high school students."

Locally, Mount Pulaski and Hartsburg-Emden both competed in Division 300, which consists of schools with an enrollment of 300 students or less. Mount Pulaski finished second behind Athens. In addition to team competition, Mount Pulaski and Hartsburg-Emden students excelled in individual competition. Those rankings are listed below and are courtesy of the LLCC website. The Mount Pulaski WYSE team is coached by Denise Farnam.

Division 300 Team rankings:

1. Athens
2. Mount Pulaski
3. New Berlin
4. Nokomis
5. Pawnee
6. Routt Catholic
7. Hartsburg-Emden
8. Virginia
9. Greenview

Division 300 Individual Rankings

Biology

First - Daniel Hattemer, Athens
Second - Tyler Penrod, Athens
Third - Kira Holtsclaw, Athens

Chemistry

First - Zac Drake, Mount Pulaski
Second - Lukas Aylesworth, Mount Pulaski
Third - Josh Dyer, Mount Pulaski; Keysen Markley, New Berlin; Brandon Thorson, Athens

Computer Science

First - Austin Black, Routt Catholic; Miranda Hilliard and Eli Olson, Mount Pulaski
Second - Emaleigh Berry, Mount Pulaski
Third - Dylan Duvall, Hartsburg-Emden; Marco Lonado, Greenview; Aaron Lovelace and Alex Strissel, Nokomis

Engineering Graphics

First - Aaron Lovelace, Nokomis
Second - Max Coppinger, Mount Pulaski; Howard Kline, Athens; Dom Pointer, New Berlin
Third - Austin Black, Routt Catholic

English

First - Hannah Ruth Jackson, Routt Catholic
Second - Justin Myers, Athens
Third - Jordan Lott, Pawnee

Mathematics

First - Mallory Reiff, Athens
Second - Logan VanRavenswaay, New Berlin
Third - Reese Bourne, Pawnee; Eli Olson, Mount Pulaski

Physics

First - Cole Martin Burke, Routt Catholic; Tyler Penrod, Athens
Second - Sierra Smith, Hartsburg-Emden
Third - Kurtis Hoock, Mount Pulaski; Ben Stowell, New Berlin

[Teena Lowery]