JAY SOWERS | THE NATCHEZ DEMOCRAT — Parklane High School junior Jacob Shephard uses a remote control to have a robot, seen at left, drop a ping pong ball in to a target during the robot arm competition as part of the Science Olympiad at the Copiah-Lincoln Community College Natchez campus. Competitors in the robot arm event were asked to build a robot that could lift different objects then drop them in to one of several targets. Point were assessed for the number of objects placed in targets, as well as the amount of time it took to complete the tasks.

JAY SOWERS | THE NATCHEZ DEMOCRAT — Parklane eighth grade student Brett Lott keeps his eyes locked on a competitors mouse trap car during the Science Oympiad Saturday morning at the Copiah-Lincoln Community College Natchez campus. The mouse trap car challenge asked students to power a small wooden car 9 meters using only mouse traps for propulsion.