On Saturday, Feb. 21, the Cuba Middle School (CMS) Science Olympiad team competed at Missouri S&T in the Regional Olympiad competitions. Students participated and placed in the following categories:

• Code Busters – third place, Freshmen Anemone Hart and Pheobe McMullin; 

• Helicopter – fourth place, Kelsey McGinnis and Justice Combs;

• Metric Mastery – fourth place, Ayden Mabe and Reighley Hunter;

• Potions and Poisons – fourth place, Anemone Hart and Willow Kampschroeder;

• Remote Sensing – fifth place, Ayden Mabe and Konnor Helderle;

• Write It Do It – fifth place, Emma Baker and Pheobe McMullin; 

• Anatomy and Physiology – Emma Baker and Willow Kampschroeder.

All participants received medals due to a testing issue that prevented official scoring.

"We could not be more proud of our Middle School Science Olympiad team. They showed up, worked hard, stayed focused and represented our school so well. Competitions like this require weeks of studying, building, testing, practicing and learning how to problem solve under pressure and they absolutely delivered," CMS Science Olympiad coaches Kelli Mabe and Hailey McMullin stated.