by Andrea Ruse
Building rockets, mousetrap cars and 60-lb load bearing balsa wood bridges was all in a day’s work for Mira Costa students at the March 6 Los Angeles Regional Science Olympiad Competition at California State University Los Angeles.
The 12-member Costa Science Olympiad Club placed 20th of 36 schools in an all-day event, where students competed in forensics, biology, chemistry, physics and engineering. The club was founded this year by junior Erin Weldon and sophomore Jonathan Colen, who together placed third of 36 in the ornithology event.
Weldon and Colen founded the Olympiad club after branching off from the regular Science Club to focus solely on the competition.
“Jon and I had to organize the whole club,” Weldon told La Vista, Costa’s school newspaper. “The first year is always the hardest because you don’t have the experience of past years to help you.”
The club is now focused on fundraising for next year’s competition and is preparing events at Mama D’s and Jamba Juice to raise money. ER
