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Antonio became a bandit.
Chesterton High School senior Logan Snyder, the wily robot’s handler, announced the unnerving yet hilarious turn of events to his Science Olympiad teammates immediately after the event. In a perfect world, Antonio would have completed the obstacle-filled maze on his way from point A to point B in the time allowed for the Robot Tour event, Logan said Feb. 17 during the Indiana University Northwest Regional Science Olympiad.
But apparently he had other plans.
“He didn’t want to listen to anything,” Logan said with a chuckle. “He definitely didn’t like the surface it was on, but it could also have been a line of code that wasn’t right. “I need to do a lot more testing for things I didn’t take into account.”
Tournament Director Harold Olivey said between the counting of points, 16 schools participated in the IUN Region, featuring 19 teams of 15 students. This year, 34 events and three trial events were organized for children to test their courage.
Trial events do not count towards a team’s overall score, and usually a team’s reserves are the people competing in those events, Olivey said. But their role is equally important, as they are the ones who show tournament organizers whether it is appropriate to add trial events (this year they were Botany, Engineer CAB and Solar Energy) as categories.
“We need to make sure activities work with different age groups,” said Ken Schoon, professor emeritus at IUN.
Schoon said he remembers the Science Fairs he competed in as a child, and at least at the individual school level, students competed against each other. But in events leading up to Science Olympiads and Nationals, he said, students work together and, just as importantly, cheer each other on.
Science Olympiad Board member Jamie Lies, who also teaches at Crown Point, took this idea one step further and said schools now recognize academic teams more, too. He said this is very important because these are the children who carry the world into the future.
“Science Olympiad and other academic teams need to be supported at least as much as athletics teams; Why can’t we raise these kids instead of making them feel excluded?” He lied. “We have Fall and Spring pep rallies at Crown Point, and now they’ve started to include those teams in the rallies and tout their accomplishments in the morning announcements, but most schools don’t do that.”
Snyder, who will attend Purdue University Polytechnic Institute in the fall, said participating in the Science Olympiad for five years has shown him that he enjoys designing things through computers. But it also taught him a broader lesson about science itself.
“(Science) is never a completed process; “There is always room for improvement,” he said.
Kahler Middle School teammates Pari Patel, 13, and Krupa Patel, 12, had some more fun with their activities. Called the Air Orbiter, the two girls built an air chamber guided by weights and were then tasked with launching a ball a predetermined distance.
Their first target did not work, but with the second, longer distance, they got closer to where they needed to be. But they both agreed that they weren’t that interested in all that.
“We chose Air Orbit because it involved filming something at school,” Krupa said.
For IUN Science Olympiad Regional team results, log on to Northwest.iu.edu/science-olympiad.
Michelle L. Quinn is a freelance reporter for the Post-Tribune.
