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April 12, 2023 Vol. 43, No. 37
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OPRF Science Olympiad team heads to state Competition is back post-COVID By AMARIS E. RODRIGUEZ Staff Reporter
It’s crunch time for the Oak Park and River Forest High School Science Olympiad team as they finalize details on projects and take practice tests before making their way to the state tournament for the fourth consecutive year. Katie Kralik, science teacher and Science Olympiad coach at OPRF, said this year’s 15 student varsity team is composed of all grade levels. There will also be seven alternates attending the competition. The team will head to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for the state tournament on April 22, the first to be held in person since the COVID-19 pandemic. The Science Olympiad team, which began eight years ago at OPRF with only seven students and now ebbs and flows around 40 participants throughout the school year, had competed in the last three state tournaments virtually. “This year, now that the state is back in-person, they have just been beyond excited that they get to go actually in-person to this competition,” said Kralik, praising her team for the hard work that has led them to compete against almost 50 other high school teams from across Illinois.
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