PA Science Olympiad
Saturday, April 30, 2022
Biology Scavenger Hunt using iNaturalist App
Virtual Event Around Campus—Available all day.
Admissions Table
10:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m. | Slep Student Center
Lion Ambassadors Campus Tours
11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. | Leaving from Slep Student Center
Table Presentation
4:00–5:15 p.m.
Slep Student Center
- AREMA – demonstration by student organization
Hawthorn Building Lobby
- Business – Deb Hommer
- Fossils –Taylor McCoy
- Engineering – Jennilyn Vallejera
- IST –David Barnes
Health Professions Student Panel
4:00–5:00 p.m. | 100 Misciagna Family Center for Performing Arts
Moderator: Prof. Mary Kananen – Health Professions Committee
- Arch Ackley – Nursing
- Angel Barnett – Biobehavioral Health
- Ben Tilmes – Biology, LECOM
- Sally Ghannam – Biology, LECOM Dental school
- Kate Kearse – Biology, Thomas Jefferson University for Cytology
Engineering Professions Student Panel
4:00–5:00 p.m. | Edith Davis Eve Chapel
Moderator: Prof. Jennilyn Vallejera - Electro-Mechanical Engineering Technology
- Whitney Wallace, Computer Science and Biology looking at Health Engineering
- Mohamed Alkaabi, Mechanical Engineering
- Jonathan Tedrow, Electro-Mechanical Engineering Technology
Lions Learning Lab
4:00-5:30 p.m. | Laurel Pavilion
Solving Difficult Math Problems for Fun and Prizes
4:00-5:30 p.m. | 148 Hawthorn Building
Biology Faculty Research Presentations
4:00–5:00 p.m. | 150 Hawthorn Building
- Allison Cornell, Ph.D. - “How do songbirds make parenting decisions? Tradeoffs between self-maintenance and reproduction”
- Lara Ladage, Ph.D. - “Cold-blooded cognition – is a bigger brain always better?”
- Ed Levri, Ph.D. - “Zombie Ants and Pulsating Snails: Parasites that manipulate their hosts.”
Information Sciences and Technology Majors discussion and Malware demonstration
4:00-5:30 p.m. | 132 Hawthorn Building
Engineering Department and Lab Tours
4:00-5:30 p.m. | Engineering Lab, Force Advanced Technology Center
Chemistry Tour of Instrumentation
4:00–5:30 p.m. | 121 Science Building
Building a Simple DC motor and Superconduction Levitation Demo conducted by Penn State Altoona Physics
4:00–5:30 p.m. | 210 Holt Building
Altoona Motorsports
4:00–5:30 p.m. | Force engineering Lab. Car will be present