By Maeve Rourke – Sports Editor

Jonathan Law’s Science Club is excited for a big year of competition.

The Science Club meets every Tuesday at 2 p.m. in Room 212B. The club is run by science teachers Ms. Turcotte and Mr. Stanton.

“Our goal is always to try to improve, especially returning members who have competed before,” club advisor Ms. Turcotte said. “We also strive to generate interest in new members so they can run the club in the future.”

The Science Club gives students the opportunity to work with other passionate about science and compete with other scholars  from the around the United States.

“People should join science club because it introduces them to many different fields of science, some that are not taught about in school,” junior club president Meghana Jaladanki said. “The club is also a great way to meet new people and forge friendships.”

Every year, the Science Club participates in several competitions in the Science Olympiad for Division C. This will be the club’s 5th year competing.

This year, every member gets the opportunity to attend the Yale and UConn science olympiads.

“A goal for our team is to do even better than we did last year, at both Yale and UConn,” junior club treasurer Colleen Hugo said. “Each year our club seems to place higher and higher, so we want to keep that going.”

Last year the club placed 11th out of 43 teams at the UConn Science Olympiad, which is the best that they have ever placed. The team also won medals in the events: Game On (3rd place), Experimental Design (3rd place), and Write it Do it (2nd place).

Everyone  in Science Club is excited for this year’s competitions, and is heart set on making improvement.

“We can improve this year by making sure that we are more organized, because we have a lot more students joining this year than the past few years,” Jaladanki said. “Everyone, including me, can improve by spending more time on working on their events, because it will help us place higher at Yale and UConn.”

In the Olympiads, members get to build different mechanisms, study a range of scientific studies, and conduct interesting labs with friends.

The members of the science club are assigned to different events to compete in. Each year there is a new rotation of events.

“My favorite event is experimental design, in which you’re given a bunch of seemingly random supplies and you have to create and perform an experiment pertinent to a specific topic,” senior club vice president Trisha Brady said. “It’s fun because it encourages creativity and you have to work insanely fast.”

This year’s Olympiad include events such as Disease Detectives, Ecology, Invasive Species, Forensics, Helicopters, and many more.

“I hope to compete in Anatomy and Physiology this year,” new member Nisali Fernando said. “I would like to go into medicine and this event encompasses that field.”