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Cy-Fair
College
Cy-Fair College, part of NHMCCD district will host the Gulf Coast
Regional Science Olympiad on Saturday, February 9th, 2008
at its campus.
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here for directions to Cy-fair college.
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North/North-West Houston,
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Science Olympiad is an international
non-profit organization working to improve the quality of science education,
increase student interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics
and provide recognition of outstanding achievement for students and teachers.
Science Olympiad tournaments are rigorous
academic competitions balanced between the various science and engineering
disciplines of biology, earth science, chemistry, physics, computers and technology.
There is also a balance between events requiring knowledge of facts,
concepts, processes, skills and science applications. But beyond the
technical knowledge needed to participate in Science Olympiad, participants
works on teams and must learn important life skills such as team work,
cooperation and creative problem solving.
The Texas Science Olympiad (the state level
competition) will be held at Texas A&M University
in College Station, Texas, on April 27-28,
2007. The website for the Texas Science Olympiad is http://outreach.science.tamu.edu/scienceolympiad.asp." State Tournament Educational Outreach and
Women's Programs is proud to host the 2008 Texas Science Olympiad (TSO) for
Divisions B & C (grades 6-12). This 2-day event (April 25-26, 2008) will
be held on the campus of Texas
A&M University
with the awards ceremony at the Bryan Civic Auditorium. “
Updated Events list coming soon.
Regional Tournaments in Texas, including the Gulf Coast Regional
Science Olympiad, are qualifying tournaments for teams to advance to State
competition. Guidelines for the regional competitions are as follows (from
the Texas Science Olympiad)
- Each regional will host both a B and C division
competition.
- These will be 'open boundary' regional's, so a
team may select any of the regional's 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 (Invitational's) will be
encouraged at high school and middle school sites. Invitational's can be
at any time, but some Fall competitions will be encouraged. Each
team MUST be a paid member of the Texas
Science Olympiad to compete at a practice/invitational tournament.
- Registration fee is $180 PER TEAM. This pays the State and National affiliation
fees and provides 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.
- Remaining slots for state will be filled on a
basis of percentage of teams registered (say, 1/5 of teams from each
regional will advance to state, with a minimum of the top 2 advancing).
- No more than 1 team from the same school may
advance to State competition
Student participants competing in
tournament events are expected to put forth an honest effort to follow the
rules and the spirit of the competitions. Students, coaches, parents and
guests of a team are expected to act with honesty, integrity, good sportsmanship,
courtesy, and respect the competitions, and towards fellow competitors,
officials and guests of the Olympiad. Failure to show these core ethics may
result in the disqualification of a team from that event, the entire
tournament or future tournaments.
Questions or comments? Contact us
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Site hosted by Cy-Fair college
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