St. Johns High School

St. Johns is a small town in mid Michigan with two high school Science Olympiad teams. They are known for their prowess in vehicle based events and T-shirt design.

Teams
Founded many years ago by a number of students who were tired with the Science Olympiad empty lives in which they lived. The team has had its peaks, contractions, troughs, and expansions. It is filled with stories of long known success and last minute victories, as well as rebuilding years. There are two teams based out of the same classroom; Mr. Lund's room 401. The varsity team is colloquially "Pure" and the junior varsity team is colloquially "Applied"--for pure and applied science respectively. However, the team names have nothing to do with which events they compete in competition. The team takes on up to four middle school students from SJMS as "apprentices". Practices are from 3:00 to 4:30~5:00 on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Optional practices on Fridays exist in higher and higher frequency as an invitational, regionals, or states approaches. When people mention nationals it's a joke btw.

-Typically, Applied team members will not compete in certain events (chemistry lab, technical problem solving, protein modeling) either because of the difficulty of the event or because of expensive needs required for the event to be competitive with surrounding schools. -Get togethers are held at assistent coaches house or at a current member's parents' house every weekend.

Trivia
St. Johns is also known for bringing a George Foreman grill. They really bring the heat!