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.
- If you have 2 teams at your school, EACH TEAM MUST HAVE A SEPARATE COACH. You may not be the coach of 2 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 teams.
- 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. Thanks for your willingess to run an event.
- If you combine two teams for state, you CAN NOT bring an apparatus built by a student who was cut from your state team. Example: A student on your "B" team builds an exceptional elevated bridge at regions and wins first place at regions. Your "B" 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.

2010-2011 Division C Event List (Draft):

Regions:

Anatomy & Physiology (Respiratory, Muscular, Endocrine)
**Astronomy
Chemistry Lab
Dynamic Planet (Earth's fresh water)
Forensics
Mousetrap Vehicle
Ornithology
**Remote Sensing (Human Impact on Earth)
Sounds of Music
Technical Problem Solving
Tower Building
Wind Power
Write It, Do It
**note: either Astronomy OR Remote Sensing at regions. Both will be run at state. Look for the final list Fall 2010.

State (all regions events plus the following):

Disease Detectives (food-borne illness)
Ecology (Tundra, Taiga)
Experimental Design
Fossils
Helicopters
Microbe Mission
Mission Possible
Optics
Protein Modeling
Sumo Bots

Rule Books will be mailed out in after September 15th when your Registration Letter is received.

State Tournament Schedule and Team Number Assignment (will be updated as they are developed):

Click to download PDF file:

Click to download EXCEL/WORD file so you can modify them to your needs:

To help coaches set up their teams, download the CONFLICT CHART (click the link). This chart will show you which events conflict on the schedule at regions and state. There is a key at the bottom of the chart which will tell you if two events definitely conflict or potentially conflict (depending on your team number, odd or even). Use this chart to help set up your team so you don't run the risk of having a student working hard on two events only to find out they conflict on the schedule.