Minnesota Science Olympiad

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 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.

2011-2012 Division C Event List:

Regions:

Anatomy & Physiology
Astronomy
Chemistry Lab
Fermi Questions
Forensics
Forestry (click here to download the 2012 MN Tree List)
Gravity Vehicle
Thermodynamics
Remote Sensing
Sounds of Music
Towers
Write It/Do It

State (all regions events plus the following):

Disease Detectives
Dynamic Planet
Experimental Design
Helicopters
Microbe Mission
Optics
Protein Modeling
Robot Arm
Rocks and Minerals
Technical Problem Solving
Water Quality

Rule Books will be mailed out when your Registration Letter is received (unless we receive your registration before we receive the rule books, in which case it will be sent when they come in).

Region and State Tournament Schedules:

Click to download PDF file: 2012 MSO Region Schedule / 2012 MSO State Schedule

Click to download EXCEL file so you can modify them to your needs: 2012 MSO Region Schedule / 2012 MSO State Schedule (all in one workbook - see tabs at the bottom of the page after you open it)

Click to go to a Google Docs version of the State Schedule for Divison C, March 3rd, 2012.