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 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 and troughs, expansions and contractions. 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 114. 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 for 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.

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 assistant 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!