Participating high schools included A. D. Johnston, Baraga, Bark River-Harris, Calumet, Chassell Township, Dollar Bay, Forest Park, Gladstone Area, Hancock, Houghton, Jeffers, Lake Linden-Hubbell, L'Anse and Westwood.

Each four-student team tackled four problems involving dissection, field identification, population ecology and microbiology/mycology.

Each member of the first-place team receives a $200 U.S. Savings Bond. The second-place team receives a $100 U.S. Savings Bond; and the third-place team receives a $50 U.S. Savings Bond. Each student participating in the competition also receives a Bio-Athlon T-shirt.

During the Bio-Athlon, workshops for the students' biology teachers were also held.

Funding for Bio-Athlon is provided by the Admissions Office, the Department of Biological Sciences, the Michigan Tech Fund and MTU alumni Mark Cowan, M.D., Olive Kimball, D.Ed., Ph.D. and Robert DellAngelo, M.D.

MTU faculty and staff organizing and participating in the Bio-Athlon include Lab Supervisors Jeff Lewin and Mike LaBeau, Department Chair John Adler, Professors Janice Glime and Tom Snyder, Associate Professor Ron Gratz (Biological Sciences) and Joan Schumaker-Chadde, coordinator of the Western U.P. Center for Science, Mathematics and Environmental Education. Kevin Kruger of Westwood High School also lead a workshop.