By Mrs. Sally Cohorst
2/18/2011
Neoga High School received third place out of fourteen teams in the annual Worldwide Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE) Academic Challenge on February 10th. Lake Land College hosted the regional competition. Neoga competed in Division 300.
St. Anthony won the event with a perfect 500 points, followed by Cumberland with 392.5 points, Neoga with 379.6, and Dieterich with 364.5 points. In Division 700, Teutopolis won and Sullivan received second place. Charleston won Division 1500 and Mattoon got second.
Kelton Nichols received second place in Engineering Graphics. Other members who competed were Amanda Baker, Michael Baker, Kamryn Boarman, Daniel Brown, Courtney Cornell, Bailey Dow, Anna Frailey, Kristie Kastl, Seth Kline, Ethan Lawrence, Kyle Ludwig, Dalton McFarland, Kelton Nichols, Ryan Ott, Chris Peters, Tyler Pikowski, Lauren Schumacher, Sierra Struthers, Becky Walk, Natalie Walk, Becca Warfel, and Jessica Warner. The team is coached by Sally Cohorst.
Subjects tested are biology, chemistry, computer fundamentals, English, engineering graphics, math, and physics. Each student is required to take two tests. The team score is a normalized score using the top two scores from chemistry, English, and math and their best two from the remaining four subjects.
The top four teams from Division 300 will advance to sectionals which will be held at Eastern Illinois University in March. At the sectional level, only a team of fourteen members will compete. These fourteen will be selected based on their scores at the regional and the required subjects needing to be included for the team score.
