Bala Cynwyd Middle School

Bala Cynwyd Middle School
Location	510 Bryn Mawr Ave Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004
State	Pennsylvania
Region	Southeast Pennsylvania
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Information
Member of SO since	1993
Teams	2
Colors	Maroon,      Gray
Feeds to	Harriton High School, Lower Merion High School
School District	Lower Merion School District
Results History
Best regional	1st (16 times)
Best state	1st (2010)
Best nationals	4th (2002)
Nationals Awards	DuPont Team Enterprise Award (2016)

Bala Cynwyd Middle School, located in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, is among the most competitive schools of Pennsylvania's Division B teams. Located in the southeastern region of Pennsylvania, it currently competes in the Eagle Invitational, in addition to Regionals and States, every year. Bala Cynwyd has won first place at the Southeast regional 16 times, the most of any Division B team in region history, and has advanced to Nationals five times, most recently in 2016.

Team Info

Bala Cynwyd students can choose to enter either Harriton High School or Lower Merion High School after graduating from Bala Cynwyd - students from Bala Cynwyd usually choose to go to Lower Merion, but many members of Science Olympiad choose to go to Harriton due to their constant success at the national tournament.

The current coaches include, but are not limited to, Jason Cook, Anne Brletich, and Carolyn McKinney. Past coaches also include Dave Granger, Scott Leggett, Go Ozeni, Kim Rycyzyn, Mr. Bachman, Ms. Gelman, Mrs. Nestor, and others.

History

Bala Cynwyd first qualified for the National Tournament in 2001, placing 32nd. The next year, Bala Cynwyd returned to nationals, placing 4th at the National tournament, their highest rank earned at the Nationals level ever.

In 2008, Bala Cynwyd made their return to the national tournament, placing 11th.

In 2010, despite losing the regional title to Strath Haven Middle School, Bala Cynwyd earned their first and only state championship. They then finished in 14th place at the national tournament.

Bala Cynwyd has advanced to Nationals most recently in 2016, where they placed 17th and won the DuPont Team Enterprise Award.

Results Table

For any invitational, only the best places of the two or three teams that competed are shown in the below table.

Year	Solon	Rustin		Garnet		Eagle		Regionals		States		Nationals
2001		-	-	-	-	-	-	2nd		2nd		32nd	651
2002		-	-	-	-	-	-	1st	121	2nd	190	4th	406
2003		-	-	-	-	-	-	1st	147	3rd	172	-	-
2004		-	-	-	-	-	-	1st	199	7th	333	-	-
2005		-	-	-	-	-	-	1st	116	3rd	261	-	-
2006		-	-	-	-	-	-	3rd	174	3rd	206	-	-
2007		-	-	-	-	-	-	1st	103	4th		-	-
2008	11th	-	-	-	-	-	-	1st	117	2nd	142	11th	442
2009	11th	-	-	-	-	-	-	1st	80	3rd	177	-	-
2010	7th	-	-	-	-	-	-	2nd	113	1st	137	14th	465
2011				-	-	-	-	2nd	131	3rd	214	-	-
2012				-	-	-	-	2nd	167	3rd	212	-	-
2013		13th	361	-	-	-	-	3rd	166	4th	244	-	-
2014		5th	316	-	-	-	-	1st	112	3rd	185	-	-
2015	-	11th	416	-	-	-	-	1st	120	3rd	201	-	-
2016	-	5th	286	-	-	-	-	1st	54	2nd	103	17th	470
2017	-	11th	347	-	-	-	-	2nd	104	6th	259	-	-
2018	-	23rd	631	5th	219	-	-	1st	96	3rd	153	-	-
2019	-	16th	530	4th	173	-	-	1st	50	3rd	108	-	-
2020	-	8th	311	4th	164	-	-	1st	76	^		^
2021	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3rd	102	6th	157	-	-
2022	-	-	-	-	-	4th	223	1st	75	4th	185	-	-
2023	-	-	-	-	-	7th	232	2nd	114	5th	243	-	-
2024	-	-	-	-	-	6th	255	1st	65	7th	230	-	-
2025	-	-	-	-	-	9th	266	1st	68	6th	201	-	-

^ State and National tournaments were not run in 2020 due to COVID-19

Event Placements

2012 Event Places 2012 Event Places Event Regionals States Anatomy 1st 3rd Awesome Aquifers 3rd 5th Bottle Rocket 6th 7th Compute This 2nd 4th Crime Busters 3rd 3rd Disease Detectives 4th 17th Dynamic Planet 6th 17th Experimental Design 14th 10th Food Science 5th 16th Forestry 1st 4th Keep the Heat 5th 3rd Meteorology 19th 16th Microbe Mission 4th 8th Mission Possible 1st 1st Mousetrap Vehicle 4th 7th Optics 9th 9th Reach for the Stars 22nd 5th Road Scholar 2nd 6th Rocks and Minerals 9th 16th Storm the Castle 26th 7th Towers 5th 28th Water Quality 8th 10th Write It Do It 8th 10th

2013 Event Places 2013 Event Places Event Rustin Regionals States Anatomy 13th 9th 18th Boomilever 12th 6th 8th Crime Busters 20th 4th 19th Disease Detectives 5th 4th 2nd Dynamic Planet 12th 6th 16th Experimental Design 7th 19th 2nd Food Science 3rd 5th 2nd Forestry 11th 7th 5th Helicopters 32nd 3rd 3rd Heredity 14th 2nd 8th Keep the Heat 4th 9th 3rd Meteorology 16th 20th 12th Metric Mastery 3rd 3rd 20th Mission Possible 8th 2nd 2nd Mousetrap Vehicle 8th 3rd 9th Reach for the Stars 9th 6th 2nd Road Scholar 3rd 1st 7th Rocks & Minerals 12th 6th 18th Rotor Egg Drop 12th 13th 16th Shock Value 5th 22nd 10th Sounds of Music 16th 2nd 10th Water Quality 14th 9th 20th Write It Do It 5th 5th 32nd

2014 Event Places 2014 Event Places Event Rustin Regionals States Anatomy 10th 8th N/A Boomilever 4th 5th 28th Can't Judge A Powder 11th 2nd 20th Crime Busters 1st 2nd 3rd Disease Detectives 3rd 2nd 2nd Dynamic Planet 6th 6th 9th Entomology 13th 3rd 1st Experimental Design 10th 6th 5th Helicopters 6th 4th 16th Heredity 11th 5th 10th Meteorology 11th 2nd 7th Metric Mastery 3rd 2nd 1st Road Scholar 7th 3rd 2nd Robo-Cross 14th 1st 5th Rocks and Minerals 5th 1st 3rd Rotor Egg Drop 3rd 23rd 2nd Shock Value 8th 2nd 17th Simple Machines 2nd 3rd 2nd Solar System 1st 9th 13th Sounds of Music 4th 1st 6th Water Quality 14th 1st 9th Wheeled Vehicle 10th 3rd 5th Write It Do It 15th 18th 19th

2015 Event Places 2015 Event Places Event Rustin Regionals States Air Trajectory 5th 8th 11th Anatomy & Physiology 34th 1st 1st Bio-Process Lab 10th 5th 12th Bridge Building 11th 7th 17th Bottle Rocket N/A 2nd 6th Can't Judge A Powder 30th 2nd 10th Crave the Wave 2nd 2nd 1st Crime Busters 31st 15th 13th Disease Detectives 18th 6th 13th Dynamic Planet 7th 4th 2nd Elastic Launched Glider 5th 3rd 19th Entomology 7th 1st 4th Experimental Design 21st 3rd 9th Fossils 3rd 2nd 3rd Green Generation 8th 5th 4th Meteorology 7th 6th 19th Picture This 7th 2nd 8th Road Scholar 4th 3rd 14th Robo-Cross 24th 16th 5th Simple Machines 5th 1st 2nd Solar System 23rd 8th 13th Wheeled Vehicle 15th 1st 1st Write It Do It 23rd 17th 14th

2016 Event Places 2016 Event Places Event Regionals States Nationals Air Trajectory 1st 11th 48th Anatomy & Physiology 1st 3rd 5th Bio-Process Lab 1st 2nd 15th Bottle Rocket 2nd 5th 24th Bridge Building 2nd 3rd 28th Crave the Wave 2nd 1st 4th Crime Busters 3rd 5th 25th Disease Detectives 2nd 1st 1st Dynamic Planet 2nd 7th 20th Elastic Launched Glider 2nd 13th 35th Experimental Design 1st 3rd 17th Food Science 1st 7th 10th Fossils 1st 4th 4th Green Generation 2nd 3rd 15th Invasive Species 1st 1st 3rd Meteorology 1st 3rd 11th Mission Possible 2nd 3rd 35th Picture This 9th 7th 51st Reach for the Stars 1st 2nd 21st Road Scholar 1st 2nd 11th Scrambler 2nd 2nd 22nd Wind Power 4th 5th 23rd Write It Do It 10th 10th 42nd

2017 Event Places 2017 Event Places Event Rustin Regionals States Anatomy 16th 7th 11th Bottle Rocket 23rd 2nd 8th Crime Busters 5th 3rd 1st Disease Detectives 7th 3rd 9th Dynamic Planet 24th 4th 14th Ecology 14th 2nd 10th Experimental Design 9th 4th 4th Fast Facts 26th 10th 18th Food Science 19th 4th 10th Hovercraft 13th 16th 16th Invasive Species 1st 1st 5th Meteorology 2nd 1st 3rd Microbe Mission 7th 8th 10th Mission Possible 13th 2nd 4th Optics 17th 1st 20th Reach for the Stars 1st 1st 1st Road Scholar 13th 5th 19th Rocks and Minerals 10th 5th 5th Scrambler 19th 2nd 26th Towers 7th 5th 15th Wind Power 13th 7th 9th Wright Stuff 42nd (trialed) 7th 21st Write It Do It 11th 4th 20th

2018 Event Places 2018 Event Places Event Rustin Garnet Valley Regionals States Anatomy 16th 10th 4th 9th Battery Buggy 60th 13th 3rd 13th Crime Busters 31st 1st 1st 1st Disease Detectives 9th 5th 4th 1st Dynamic Planet 8th 6th 5th 5th Ecology 32nd 11th 13th 10th Experimental Design 17th 5th 1st 5th Fast Facts 13th 8th 4th 8th Herpetology 14th 3rd 4th 3rd Hovercraft 18th 10th 4th 7th Meteorology 9th 5th 3rd 9th Microbe Mission 5th 9th 1st 10th Mystery Architecture 3rd 3rd 15th 2nd Optics 28th 11th 1st 2nd Potions and Poisons 5th 9th 2nd 4th Road Scholar 26th 15th 4th 9th Rocks and Minerals 25th 14th 6th 14th Roller Coaster 60th 13th 3rd 8th Solar System 4th 4th 1st 3rd Thermodynamics 13th 17th 4th 6th Towers 21st 8th 3rd 8th Wright Stuff 20th 11th 2nd 7th Write It Do It 16th 10th 8th 2nd

2019 Event Places 2019 Event Places Event Rustin Garnet Valley Regionals States Anatomy 9th 2nd 1st 2nd Battery Buggy 21st 5th 1st 3rd Boomilever 26th 14th 4th 12th Circuit Lab 8th 17th 5th 6th Crime Busters 12th 8th 8th 3rd Density Lab 6th 5th 1st 5th Disease Detectives 4th 3rd 1st 1st Dynamic Planet 11th 7th 4th 3rd Elastic Launched Glider 25th 3rd 3rd 8th Experimental Design 6th 4th 1st 7th Fossils 19th 5th 3rd 3rd Game On 5th 4th 1st 3rd Heredity 5th 7th 1st 5th Herpetology 3rd 3rd 1st 2nd Meteorology 5th 12th 1st 2nd Mystery Architecture 6th 6th 1st 5th Potions and Poisons 6th 2nd 3rd 1st Road Scholar 26th 8th 2nd 3rd Roller Coaster 15th 3rd 3rd 8th Solar System 7th 2nd 1st 1st Thermodynamics 27th 7th 2nd 5th Water Quality 10th 10th 1st 6th Write It Do It 44th 8th 1st 14th

2020 Event Places 2020 Event Places Event Rustin Garnet Valley Regionals Anatomy 4th 3rd 4th Boomilever 5th 3rd 1st Circuit Lab 14th 7th 7th Crime Busters 14th 3rd 3rd Density Lab 7th 5th 3rd Disease Detectives 11th 13th 4th Dynamic Planet 1st 2nd 1st Elastic Launched Glider 21st 10th 4th Experimental Design 1st 4th 1st Food Science 39th 6th 2nd Fossils 4th 4th 1st Game On 18th 15th 13th Heredity 20th 3rd 3rd Machines 21st 3rd 1st Meteorology 1st 1st 1st Mission Possible 31st 22nd 1st Mouse Trap Vehicle 29th 12th 8th Ornithology 14th 7th 1st Ping-Pong Parachute 5th 6th 2nd Reach for the Stars 5th 2nd 1st Road Scholar 22nd 9th 6th Water Quality 9th 3rd 1st Write It Do It 15th 3rd 7th

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