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2011 Houston Regional Science OlympiadHosted byRobert M. Beren Academy
March 6, 201111333 Cliffwood Dr.Houston, Texas 77030
To registrar or to find out more information about the Science Olympiad and the events, please visit http://outreach.science.tamu.edu/scienceolympiad.aspr
For more informationplease contact:Nicole [email protected]
713-723-7120
What is Science Olympiad?The Science Olympiad (http://soinc.org/) is a nonprofit organization developed to improve the quality of science education, increase student interest in science, and provide recognition of outstanding achievement in science education by both students and teachers. All of this is done through interscholastic competitions where students in grades K-12 (Texas State only offers programs for grades 6-12) can participate at invitational, local, regional, state, and national level competitionsagainst teams from all 50 states.
Tentative EventsDivision B (Middle School) Division C (High School)
Solar System Astronomy
Road Scholar Remote Sensing
Optics Optics
Disease Detectives Disease Detectives
Crime Busters Chem Lab
Bottle Rocket Forensics
Towers Towers
Comp This Helicopters
Write It Do It Write It Do It
Anatomy Anatomy
All teams are expected to compete at a regional qualifying tournaments to advance to State competition.
Guidelines for the regional competitions are as follows:
• Each regional will host both a B and C division competition.
• These will be ‘open boundary’ regionals, so a team may select any of the regionals that are offered.
• Each team must attend one regional to be considered for advancement to the State competition -- they may only attend one regional.
• Practice tournaments (Invitationals) will be encouraged at high school and
• Registration fee is $180 PER TEAM. This pays the State and National affiliation fees andprovides each team with the coach’s manual and entry of one 15 member team into one regional competition. Qualifying teams advance to State, with the State winners advancing to Nationals.
• Multiple teams from a school are encouraged to compete at regional competitions. The registration fee for EACH TEAM is $180.
• All teams from the same school must compete at the same regional. All teams from the same school will also compete at the same time period for each event (all have odd or all have even team numbers if teams assigned to odd/ even time periods).
• 30 schools per division will advance from regionals to State competition. Two (2) international slots will also be available on a non-competitive basis.
• The top 2 schools at each regional will automatically advance to state level competition.
• No more than 1 team from the same school may advance to State competition.
• For more information about the Science Olympiad events and rules please visit http://outreach.science.tamu.edu/scienceolympiad.aspr
For more informationplease contact:Nicole [email protected]
713-723-7120
