North Pocono Middle School

North Pocono Middle School
Location	701 Church Street Moscow, PA 18444
State	Pennsylvania
Region	Northeast Pennsylvania
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Information
Member of SO since	1990
Teams	2
Colors	Red,      White,      Black
Feeds to	North Pocono High School
School District	North Pocono School District
Results History
Best regional	2nd, 2023-2025
Best state	4th, 2024
Best nationals	Never qualified
Social Media
Website	npscioly.org

The North Pocono Junior High Science Olympiad team is a Division B team affiliated with the North Pocono Middle School located in Moscow, Pennsylvania. They compete in the Northeast Pennsylvania Regional.

About

North Pocono has an active Science Olympiad Team comprised of between 25 and 40 students.

North Pocono uses an open system for its team. Anyone can join the team and each tournament's competing team is determined by the 15 people on the team who are present who will serve the team best given the scheduling, their ability, and their strengths.

The team is feeds into the North Pocono High School, which has a competitive team that has consistently been among the top competitors at the State Tournament in recent years.

History

North Pocono's Junior High team first competed in 1990. In the late 1990s, the team would stop competing, and would not return until 2012. After competing for two years, the team would go on hiatus once again.

The team was revived in 2019 after North Pocono High School had established itself as a regional power. Since being revived, North Pocono has never failed to qualify for the state tournament, and has consistently medaled in most events and had a top 10 overall ranking since 2022. The team’s best States included a 4th-place finish at the 2024 Pennsylvania State Tournament.

Results

Results History

Year	Regionals	Top 5s	Team Score	States	Top 10s	Team Score
2012	22nd	-	464	-	-	-
2013	17th	4th: Rocks and Minerals	406	-	-	-
2019	6th	2nd: Boomilever, Experimental Design, Heredity, Roller Coaster 3rd: Thermodynamics 4th: Circuit Lab, Fossils 5th: Water Quality	168	34th	7th: Heredity	600
2020	no tournament because of COVID
2021	5th	1st: Disease Detectives 2nd: Anatomy & Physiology 3rd: Game On, Reach for the Stars 4th: Machines, Crime Busters.	129	12th	4th: Boomilever***, Mission Possible***, 5th: Home Horticulture Science***, Science Quiz Bowl*** 6th: Codebusters*** 7th: Machines, Reach for the Stars, Write It / CAD It*** 8th: Disease Detectives 9th: Crime Busters, Dynamic Planet 10th Food Science, Heredity	214 AAA Bracket 20 Teams
2022	3rd	1st: Anatomy, Electric Wright Stuff 2nd: Codebusters, Crime Busters, Disease Detectives 3rd: Bridges, Green Generation, Mission Possible, Mousetrap Vehicle, Ping Pong Parachute, Road Scholar, Rocks and Minerals, Solar System 4th: Dynamic Plant, Experimental Design, Food Science, Ornithology 5th: Crave the Wave, Sounds of Music, Write It / Do It	85	7th	1st: Home Horticulture***, Write It Do It 3rd: Food Science, Ping Pong Parachute, Ichthyology*** 5th: Crime Busters, Ornithology, Storm the Castle 6th: Bridges, Electric Wright Stuff, Experimental Design, Road Scholar, Rocks and Minerals, Solar System 7th: Disease Detectives 9th: Solar System*** 10th: Anatomy, Science Quiz Bowl***	248
2023	2nd	1st: Bridge, Can't Judge a Powder 2nd: Anatomy, Codebusters, Crave the Wave, Crime Busters, Dynamic Planet, Flight, Forestry, Green Generation, Meteorology, Road Scholar, Rocks and Minerals 3rd: Bio Process Lab, Experimental Design, Roller Coaster, Wheeled Vehicle, Write it Do it 4th: Sounds of Music	68	6th	2nd: Microbe Mission*** 4th: Can't Judge a Powder, Storm the Castle 5th: Anatomy, Crime Busters, Dynamic Planet, Road Scholar, Fossils*** 6th: Forestry, Ichthyology***, Wind Power*** 7th: Rocks and Minerals 8th: Bio Processing, Bridges, Codebusters, Roller Coaster 9th: Meteorology	252
2024	2nd	1st: Can't Judge a Powder, Codebusters, Experimental Design, Flight, Forestry, Meteorology, Road Scholar 2nd: Air Trajectory, Anatomy, Disease Detectives, Dynamic Planet, Microbe Mission, Optics, Towers, Wheeled Vehicle 3rd: Ecology, Reach for the Stars, Roller Coaster, Wind Power 4th: Fossils	64	4th	2nd: Codebusters, Wind Power, Write It Do It 3rd: Crime Busters, Meteorology 4th: Anatomy and Physiology 5th: Flight, Forestry 6th: Towers 7th: Can't Judge a Powder, Fossils, Microbe Mission, Optics, Road Scholar, Wheeled Vechile 8th: Botany*** 10th: Air Trajectory, Dynamic Planet, Ecology, Botany***, Solar Power***	188
2025	2nd	1st: Codebusters, Potions & Poisons, Reach for the Stars, Write it Do it 2nd: Air Trajectory, Anatomy & Physiology, Crimebusters, Disease Detectives, Entomology, Experimental Design, Fossils, Helicopter, Meteorology, Microbe Mission, Road Scholar, Scrambler, Tower, Wind Power. 3rd: Ecology, Mission Possible. 4th: Optics	54	7th	2nd: Potions & Poisons, Wind Power, Write it Do it 3rd: Entomology, Experimental Design 4th: Meteorology, Mission Possible 5th: Air Trajectory, Crimebusters 6th: Tower 7th: Codebusters, Fossils 8th: Helicopter, Microbe Mission 9th: Reach for the Stars 10th: Road Scholar, Scrambler	205

TRIAL EVENTS - ***

Coaches

Coaching History

Years	Head Coach	Assistant Coaches	Event mentors
2012	Maura Farr Mike Vilello
2013	Maura Farr Mike Vilello
2019	Lindsay Croom	Ellen Raguckas (JH) Mallory Mokay (JH) J Croom Doug Mallas Kara Donovan	Trevor Pawlik - Road Scholar, Thermodynamics, & Potions and Poisons Spencer Austin - Circuit Lab & Battery Buggy
2020	Lindsay Croom	Ellen Raguckas (JH) Mallory Mokay (JH) J Croom Doug Mallas Kara Donovan	Sue Bendinsky Spencer Austin Mike Hricko Spencer Austin Larry Dombek Jim DeRenzis
2021	Lindsay Croom	Ellen Raguckas (JH) Jim Derenzis (JH) Spencer Austin (JH) J Croom Doug Mallas Kara Donovan	Sue Bendinsky Mike Hricko Tevor Pawlik Matt Todaro John Slater
2022	Lindsay Croom	Ellen Raguckas (JH) Jim Derenzis (JH) Spencer Austin (JH) J Croom Larry Dombek Trevor Pawlik	Sue Bendinsky Dawne Scheller Doug Mallas Rachel Galassi John Slater Kara Donovan
2023	Lindsay Croom	Ellen Raguckas (JH) Jim Derenzis (JH) Spencer Austin (JH) J Croom Cas Czachor Trevor Pawlik	Sue Bendinsky Dawne Scheller Doug Mallas Rachel Galassi John Slater Kara Donovan Doug Smith Ricky White Kelsey Kline
2024	Lindsay Croom	Cas Czachor (JH) Jim Derenzis (JH) Spencer Austin (JH) J Croom Tevor Pawlik Stephen Czachor	Doug Mallas John Slater Doug Smith Kelsey Kline
2025	Lindsay Croom	Cas Czachor Jim DeRenzis Stephen Czachor J Croom	Kelsey Kline John Slater William Havenstrite Trevor Pawlik James Bianchi Elizabeth Nemitz Doug Mallas

All Dates including awards and coaching are for the competition year, not the school year. That is the year is based on March of the school year, not September.