Student science Olympiads from Plainfield East and North high schools earned top spots at a regional tournament.
PEHS juniors Kyleah Edison and Beatrice Ordeneza won first place in Write It Do It in the Waubonsie Valley Science Olympiad Regional Tournament held on Saturday, March 1, 2025.
PEHS sophomore Ira Chakraborty and Aleena Yousuf, junior, won first place in Optics.
PNHS senior Omer Mescioglu and Patricia Botnari, junior, won first place in Anatomy & Physiology.
Mescioglu and Sakina Rizvi, senior, won first place in Microbe Mission.
Other state qualifiers include:
Plainfield East High School 
• Kyleah Edison, junior, and Ira Chakraborty, sophomore, Astronomy, second place
• Zoe Lee, junior, and Aleena Yousuf, junior, Materials Science, third place
• Kyleah Edison, junior, and Beatrice Ordeneza, junior, Robot Tour, third place
• Charlie Hidalgo, junior, and Aleena Yousuf, junior, Chemistry Lab, fourth place
• Zoe Lee, junior, and Beatrice Ordeneza, junior, Disease Detectives, fourth place
• Zoe Lee, junior, Kyleah Edison, junior, and Beatrice Ordeneza, junior, Experimental Design, fourth place
Plainfield North High School 
• Makayla Oberg, junior, and Nyla Rizvi, junior, Write It Do It, second place
• Prakul Madaan, senior, and Sakina Rizvi, senior, Helicopter, second place
• Patricia Botnari, junior, and Kaitlyn Gaszak, junior, Entomology, third place
• Patricia Botnari, junior, and Kaitlyn Gaszak, junior, Fossils, fourth place
• Makayla Oberg, junior, and Nyla Rizvi, junior, Optics, fourth place
• Carson Payne, junior, Robot Tour, fourth place
• Carson Payne, junior, Wind Power, fourth place
These students will now compete at the Illinois Individual Science Olympiad State Tournament on April 26, 2025, at McHenry County College.