HOUGHTON, MI-- Michigan Technological University is holding its 30th Annual Bioathlon Competition Wednesday.
More than 50 students from 13 high schools in the U.P. and Wisconsin will compete in the event, which aims to stimulate interest and problem solving in biology among high school students.
Four-person teams will compete in four different biological areas: dissection, medical laboratory science, field ecology and forensic science. Participants have not had formal class work in biology beyond the traditional sophomore high school general biology course.
The top three teams will win cash prizes.
High schools participating are:
- A.D. Johnston (Bessemer)
- Baraga
- Calumet
- Chassell
- Dollar Bay-Tamarack City
- Hancock
- Houghton
- Luther L. Wright (Ironwood)
- Jeffers (Painesdale)
- Lake Linden-Hubbell
- Laona (Wisconsin)
- Negaunee
- West Iron Co.
