Rules for making a high school (Division C) Science Olympiad
team:
- Maximum number of students on a team is 15.
- Maximum number of seniors on a team is 7.
- ONLY registered team members may build anything used in competition (that
is, you CAN NOT have "alternate" members building an elevated bridge, for
example, and having a registered team member, one of the 15 listed when you
compete, test that bridge). Only the 15 members on the competition list can
build anything brought to the competition.
- All members must be enrolled in your school. Click here for the qualifications for non-traditional schools to participate.
- If you have 2 or more teams at your school, EACH TEAM MUST HAVE A SEPARATE COACH.
You may not be the coach of 2 or more teams. This means that if you have 2 teams
at regions, you will have 2 different coaches each running different regional
events. Again, 1 coach per team, no one coach may coach 2 or more teams. Multiple Team Rules
- Each coach will be assigned an event to run at regions. This means the
coach makes the test, administers the test at regions and grades the test.
We have to do this in order to run regions. We can't find enough volunteers
to run the events for us. We all must take on an event to make the regions
work out. This is a requirement of registering multiple teams - each team must have a coach that can run an event at regions!
- Only one team (your "varsity" team) per school will advance to state. You must pre-designate a "varsity" team for the region meet. All other teams from your school will be designated as JV and will compete in a separate tournament run at the same time and will receive separate awards for each event. Your "varsity" team's rank at the region will determine if your school advances or not to the state meet.
- If you have multiple teams at region and your varsity team advances to state, you may combine two or teams for state, BUT you CAN NOT bring an apparatus built
by a student who was cut from your state team. Example: A student on your
"JV" team builds an exceptional bridge at regions and wins first
place at regions. Your "JV" team does not advance to state. After determining
your state team, this
student
is not on your state team. You can not bring that student's bridge with you
to state and have someone else compete with it. That is a violation of the
rule listed above.
2022-2023 Division C Event List:
| Anatomy & Physiology |
| Astronomy |
| Bridge |
| Cell Biology |
| Chemistry Lab |
| Codebusters |
| Detector Building |
| Disease Detectives |
| Dynamic Planet |
| Environmental Chemistry |
| Experimental Design - Click here for the 2023 Experimental Design Checklist |
| Fermi Questions |
| Flight |
| Forensics |
| Forestry - Click here for the 2023 National Tree List |
| Green Generation |
| It's About Time |
| Remote Sensing |
| Rocks & Minerals - Click here for the 2023 Rocks and Minerals List |
| Scrambler |
| Trajectory |
| WiFi Lab |
| Write It Do It |