Posted on 04/27/2025 8:35:27 AM PDT by Morgana
CV NEWS FEED // A Colorado homeschool group won the state title of a Science Olympiad tournament April 5, with both middle and high school divisions taking first place in the competition at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS).
According to an April 22 article from local affiliate FOX21, the Science Olympiad is a national STEM competition. Nearly 7,000 teams total compete across the 50 states. The Homeschool Science Colorado team competed against 30 other teams from various schools around the state. This is the third time since 2021 that the team has won the high school division and the first time that it has won the middle school division.
“I feel ecstatic about it,” winner Lydia Wickerham told FOX21. “None of us were really expecting it this year.”
Cindy Puhek, the Homeschool Science Colorado team’s head coach, said collaboration was key to its success, given the competition’s multiple events.
“It really is teamwork,” Puhek told FOX21. “You have to do well across all 23 events to win, so you have to have everybody committed.”
Homeschool Science Colorado team is focused on engaging future scientists and engineers through fun, competitive teamwork, according to its Facebook page.
FOX21 reported that Homeschool Science Colorado will represent its state at the National Science Olympiad Tournament May 23 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Right-O!
Home school marms follow a lesson plan and aren’t diverted by drag queens, queers and lesbians.
It really helps the team when the teachers don’t lecture the young white men about how they are colonialist oppressors and need to check their privilege.
Would have been nice if the article explained what they did to win.
I am assuming it wasn’t a baking soda volcano.
Sigh, even journalists on our side can drop the ball.
“HSC’s winning performance included first-place finishes in seven events: Air Trajectory, Chem Lab, Disease Detectives, Electric Vehicle, Experimental Design, Forensics, and Optics. Their consistent performance across nearly all events helped them secure the overall victory by a substantial margin.”
https://www.csupueblo.edu/news/2025/03-13-homeschool-takes-top-honors.html
I’ve said this before. It’s worth repeating.
Homeschooling is about many things. Ultimately, it’s about the plenary rights of parents.
The corollary, is that right is NOT dependent upon the outcome.
Mrs DoodleBob and I found in our HSing co-op that there are some HS’d kids that are…well…average. They’re not STEM grads in training. And that’s ok.
It’s always pleasing to see HS’d kids Win, and Win Bigly. But even if they go on to work in a convenience store, work retail or other “lesser” jobs, that should NEVER ding the reason for HSing.
TO WIT: if violence and murder was high in America because of our right to KABA, we STILL won’t remove the right to KABA. Same with HSing…if these kids turned out to be substandard, the right to HS remains untouched.
We are friends with a homeschool family. Their son attended an advanced math class at a local state university, while in high school, and presently is at MIT studying electrical engineering.
I learned a lot about homeschooling from the mother. Her main concern was not leftist indoctrination, which isn’t bad in our school district (although a concern) - it was rather the incredible waste of time public schools inflicted on her children. The 6-7 hours they spend in school each day, after subtracting everything from announcements to gym to “health” to lunch to assembly, to teachers keeping discipline - kids probably only spend 1-2 hours actually “learning” anything.
Btt
So true.
We were done by 1130 up to 6th grade.
Agree
Nonsense of my kids were rock and roll but all did well in school and do well in life because they had a broad a d in depth education.
And because the public school competition was Harrison Bergeroned into submission.
Easy to get high grades when you are the only one who knows your math facts.
But of course.
Congrats, kids.
Agreed—and good points.
For me the public schools put extreme limits on kids who may be talented in any of a wide variety of areas—while home schooling by parents (who have real skin in the game) allows kids to excel in any area where they have talents.
That is better for all of us—who benefit from kids being the best they can be.
Thanks.
Parenting is tough. Notwithstanding my desire for the separation of school and state, I bet some kids THRIVE in public school. As such, I would NEVER tell a parent that they MUST homeschool.
Now, I object to taxation to fund public school. That’s a related but separate issue.
Parents have the right to choose public, private, religious, secular, or homeschool. If the Jones’s want Timmy and Mary to attend the Greta Thunberg School of Climate Education, while I think they’re stupid I’ll fight for their right to do so.
I suspect, however, the Jones’s would call out the military if I wanted to homeschool.
My grandkids are homeschooled with social activities being provided by the church. The oldest one, at the age of 5, was reading books titled Thermodynamics instead of Heather Has Two Mommies. The kids are WAAAAAY ahead of their peers.
EC
“ It really helps the team when the teachers don’t lecture the young white men about how they are colonialist oppressors”
I wonder how many teachers think that the USA were colonialists. We were the Colony. I’m not sure Obama understood this either.
Three of my grandchildren were homeschooled.
The results are evident.
They’re intelligent.
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