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Welcome to the 28th year of the largest team science and technology competition in North America. The Science Olympiad has been recognized as a model program in the National Science Standards by the National Research Council. |  |
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Important DatesNov. 18, 2011 Membership Due
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2012 Wisconsin State Div C Event Schedule National Science Olympiad Rules Clarifications |
Life/Personal/Social
Earth/Space
Physical/Chemistry
Technology
Inquiry/Nature
Disease Detectives
Anatomy & Physiology
Forestry
Important Rules Update and Tree List
Remote Sensing
Astronomy
Chemistry Lab
Forensics
Tower
Gravity Vehicle
Helicopter
ExperimentalDesign
Fermi Questions
Technical Problem Solving
*Wisconsin Events-click to download the event rules. These are the official rules for these 2012 WSO events. Do not confuse these with Trial Event rules posted at the National site or rules posted at other state science olympiad sites. The Mag-Lev event rules have been updated by New York State Science Olympiad and are the official rules for Wisconsin.
Rules for the 19 NSO events are found in the Official Rules Manual available only through joining Science Olympiad, Wisconsin Event rules will be linked from this page
NEW for 2012: The 2012 Div C State Competition in Wisconsin offers 25 events. These include 20 of the NSO events plus 5 additional events. However, a Team may only enter only 20 of those events for Team score; Team score determines a State Champion. Additional events beyond the 20 may be audited for no team score.
Important............ Each Team must balance their chosen 20 events from the 5 Science Standard categories. Each Team will choose 4 events from each category to reach a total of 20 events. This event format has several advantages. It enables a wider variety of events to be offered in hopes of catching the interest of more students. It gives the coaches a better chance of matching their individual strengths and talents with those events. It helps to assure that one or two Teams will not dominate all events. It encourages Teams to become more diversified in their preparations. It opens the possibility for Teams to audit events and therefore involve more students. And, certainly, it definitely adds a tremendous amount of coaching strategy. By requiring Teams to balance their choices within the categories they will more adequately satisfy the National Science Standards.
Wisconsin Science Olympiad Div C State Competition does have a system where events beyond the chosen 20 can be audited. The Audit Events do permit additional students beyond the 15 to participate ( including seniors ) and compete at the State Competition. Auditing an event gives a Team a chance to not only involve more students, it gives them a chance to gain knowledge about the 5 events they have not chosen for Team score. This experience is invaluable as the Teams prepare to advance to National Tournament.
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