Olympians - Members of the "B" team of Junior High Academic Olympians pose above with their silver medals for second place from the event in Miles City. Pictured left to right: Kayleigh Opstedahl, Gracie Gali, Kassie Hagedorn, Reuben Kinzer, Eli Jurica, and Logan Capp. (Photo courtesy Jacy Collins)
More Olympians - Members of the "A" team of Junior High Academic Olympians are pictured above with some of their individual ribbons. Pictured left to right: Maggie Mader, Kensi Emmons, Justin Aye, Ashton Madsen, and Darren VerWolf. (Photo courtesy Jacy Collins)
By Jacy Collins
Junior High Report
On March 8, 2022 the Junior High Academic Olympics team competed in Miles City at Miles Community College. The Junior High competed against 11 other schools from our area. Academic Olympics is supported by the Southeast Montana Association of School Superintendents (SEMASS) and run by educators in Southeastern Montana.
Our 11 Broadus students competed against a total of 120 students. The students take a 100 question written test, which seeds them as a team and then compete in oral rounds in the afternoon. Broadus B placed 4th and Broadus A placed 13 in the written rounds against a total of 21 teams.
Individual placers in the written test competing against 51 seventh graders: 31st - Ashton Madsen, 12th place - Logan Capp, 11th place - Kassie Hagedorn, 9th place - Justin Aye, 6th place - Eli Jurica.
Individual placers in the written test competing against 54 eighth graders: 30th - Kensi Emmons, 18th - Kayleigh Opstedahl, 16th - Gracie Gali, 13th - Maggie Mader, 9th - Reuben Kinzer, 8th - Darren VerWolf.
Oral Rounds are 10 question rounds in which students are required to ring in and provide an answer. Team A was eliminated after 2 rounds. Team B won every round until the Championship where they played Jordan. They fell to Jordan and received silver medals for their 2nd place finish.
High School Report
On March 9, 2022, the High School students also participated at Miles Community College. There were 138 students in attendance for the competition. Numbers were down this year due to tournaments. We were set to take 22 students and fielded a team of 7.
The team of Shannon Knapp, Abigail Martin, Rheanna Schroeder, Mercy Brost, Lauryn Billing, Ciara McDowell, and Shyla Madsen placed 12th in the oral round.
The team played two rounds in the Oral competition before being beat out.
Individual places:
Seniors out of 36: Shannon Knapp - 20th , Abigail Martin - 15th.
Juniors out of 32: Lauryn Billing - 27th, Rheanna Schroeder - 15, Mercy Brost - 14th.
Sophomores out of 27: Ciara McDowell - 10th.
Freshman out of 43: Shyla Madsen 5th.
These students gave up their lunch period for almost 6 weeks to attend this event. They did a great job of representing our school. It is great to see our students learn, grow and show off their education. Thank you to Eric Myers and Rebecca Boman for training the teams for competition.
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