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This website will migrate to a new host after Oct., 2024. Check scilympiad.com/wa site for latest update for 2025 season.
> Announcements/Registration Info
> WSO Schedule
> Trial Events
> Teams Advancing to State Tournament
> Meeting and Coaching Workshops
> Coaching Tips / Information
Registration for the 2024-25 season began 9/3/24. General registration information. with actual team registration at Scilympiad. Registration deadline is 1/15/24 (with 1/1/24 last day to signup on Scilympiad).
2024-25 Fees and Discounts:
- $300 per returning team registration fee.
- $100 discount available for new schools now thru 1/15/25 registration deadline; One team only.
- $100 discount for new school starting with a small team (doing only half of the offered regular events), at SW/Eastern region only;
- $75 discount available for non-Washington teams.
Contact State Director with fee/discount questions and tournament space availability.
Link to electronic rules manuals: on national Science Olympiad web site national Science Olympiad.
No more than 6 teams from one school may register prior to December 2. If there is need to register more than 6 teams, contact State Director for regional specific decisions. After Dec 2, we may approve additional teams if space available.
When registering on https://scilympiad.com/wa, be sure to finalize registration by completing the payment screen. With applied discount (as appropriate), amount due is what must be paid. IF any amt is showing due, your team registration is not finalized. Teams with finalized registration will be assigned a team number - when showing on coach dashboard, only then is your registration official.
2024 Rule Clarifications - Check NSO site
WSO Unified Schedule - All tournaments (invitational, regional, state) in Washington follow the WSO Unified Schedule (to be finalized by end of September). DRAFT schedule
Notes:
(1) Coaches/teams: Updated schedule info will also be posted to https://scilympiad.com/wa - be sure to keep abreast of any changes.
(2) WSO events and schedule ARE different than national schedule. Coaches, PLEASE do not fully engage your team into events until the FINAL WSO Unified Schedule is posted ... e.g., do NOT use the national schedule included at the back of the 2024-25 rules manuals.
This season two events - different from the national rules manual - will be scored as regular events in all regional and state tournaments: Sustainable Energy-B/C (replaces Wind Power) and Quantum Quandary-C (additional event). Rules are at:
Sustainable Energy: Link to be updated
Quantum Quandaries:
Events differing from the national slate of events and trial events are identified in the WSO Unified Schedule. Pilot and trial events are selected by the WSO Board of Directors based on coach feedback/request and/or trial events that are scheduled to become regular events in later years on the national SO lineup. Normally, pilot/trial events are only conducted at the state tournament; HOWEVER, this year, some of the trial events will be run at Invitationals as well.
Number of Teams Advancing from Regional Tournament to State Tournament:
#s for 2024-2025 will be posted ASAP after last regional tournament is run. See formula below for determination of advancing teams per regional tournament.
**B Division: Eastern - ; NW - ; SW -
**C Division: Eastern - ; NW - ; SW -
The WSO policy of no more than 2 teams from one school advancing to the state tournament still applies. This year WSO will carry forward a new policy introduced last season:
For teams that do not qualify for the state tournament AND had members who ranked 1st in any event at the regional tournament, those members will be invited to attend the state tournament to compete in that/those event/s ONLY. More details to follow!
___________________________**Formula for in-person tournament advancement from regional to state:
Numbers are determined after the registration deadline (Jan 15).
To determine the number of teams advancing from regional tournaments to the state tournament in each division, the following formula shall be applied:
Resulting fractional numbers will be rounded down (.1 to .4) or rounded up (.5 to .9).
Example:
If there are 79 B teams registered statewide and 20 B teams can be accommodated at the state tournament. There are four regions:
Region 1 has 18 teams
Region 2 has 24 teams
Region 3 has 23 teams
Region 4 has 14 teams
Based on the formula above and 20 teams/division at the state tournament, the following number of teams should* advance to the state tournament:
Region 1 will send 5 teams (
Region 2 will send 6 teams
Region 3 will send 6 teams
Region 4 will send 4 teams
*In years when rounding up results in more teams being eligible for State than the tournament is able to accommodate (as identified in the above example, where 21 teams should advance), the region/s with the greater number of teams will be given priority. In the example above, this would be the actual number of teams that advance to the state tournament based on only 20 teams being accommodated:
Region 1 – 5 teams
Region 2 – 6 teams
Region 3 – 6 teams
Region 4 – 3 teams (even though the formula allowed for rounding up to 4 teams, with only 14 teams, this region has the fewest number of registered teams; therefore, the other regions are given priority in advancing to the state tournament).**EXCEPTION based on tournament composition: If any tournament has non-geographic teams registered, above formula will be changed as follows:
Within the tournament, local and non-geographic teams will be considered separately in determining # of teams advancing to state with any rounding-up issues resulting in a higher overall # of teams advancing going in the local region's favor.
For example, based on overall tournament registration, 6 teams would advance to the state tournament. Based on local vs non-geographical team #s (and accounting for rounding up), 2.5 local teams and 3.75 non-geographical teams would advance, then local teams would have 3 teams advance and non-geographical teams would have 3 teams advance.
MEETINGS & COACHING WORKSHOPS:
Meetings and Coaching Workshops - Click on link for information about the NSO Summer Insitiute and other clinics.
2024-25 WSO Coaches Clinics (Camas HS, Oct 12th)
For a list of invitational tournaments (opportunities to practice prior to regional tournaments), check out the Tournaments page.
Southwest Region is hosting an A Division - Elementary - tournament - November 9, 2024, 9 AM-12 noon, Clark College (Vancouver, WA). REGISTRATION LIMITED TO SOUTHWEST WA SCHOOLS. There will be a coaches clinic on September 28, 2024, for teams participating in the tournament. For info/registration contact swwascioly@gmail.com.
COACHING TIPS:
Probes and other measurement devices are used in a variety of Science Olympiad events like Bio-Process (B) and Technical Problem Solving (C). Texas Instruments has many products that meet event requirements. See their web site for product and education details: http://education.ti.com/educationportal/sites/US/homePage/index.html
Information on funding and grants for TI products: http://education.ti.com/educationportal/sites/US/sectionHome/grantandfunding.html
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