Braden River Middle School students go for the gold
Teams participated STEAM Olympics Thursday.
By
Jessica Salmond
| 5:41 p.m. May 26, 2016
East County
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Flags were lifted and games were played...but not the typical Olympic sports.Â
Braden River Middle School students teamed up and competed at school for STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math) Olympics Thursday, May 26.Â
Seventh- and eighth-graders built structures, made foil boats and battled out mental math problems to gain points for their teams in the afternoon. In the morning, local company representatives and experts spoke to the classes. Â
Damarion Murray, Frankie Robinson, Tyanna Smith and Veronica Hernandez built a 49-inch tower and balanced a tennis ball on top.
Ashley Zeitz, Tessa Mayfair, Izzy Rines, Will King and Izzy Tracy wield the plaid team flag.
Matthew Gagnemi works with his team at mental math tic-tac-toe.
Devin Vancil carefully monitors his team's foil boat.
Noah Broneill sports spots to represent his team.
Nathan Parker, Jeremy Golsey and Jacob Jackson relay messaged to their teammates outside the wall about how to build the object.
Will McBride, Victoria Rodriguez, Daniella Tapivia, Cora Mabrey and Ina Prodo try to build the tallest newspaper tower they can.
Lucas Naylor carefully places the last of 39 nails which his team's boat successfully kept afloat.
Kolby Wade and Sam Phillips wait for instructions from their teammates to learn how to build the object.
Marco Satira, Ethan Camp, Fiorella Recchioni, LibbyAnn Ling, Christina Beaver and Maxwell Fletcher
Civics teacher Chris Brown quizzes teams on trivia.
