Gulf Coast Regional Science Olympiad
Lone Star College Cy-Fair : 9191 Barker Cypress Rd., Cypress, TX 77433
Cy-Fair College, part of Lone Star college System district will host the Gulf Coast Regional Science Olympiad on Saturday, March 26th, 2011 at its campus.
For general information about the Texas Science Olympiad visit their website at http://outreach.science.tamu.edu/scienceolympiad.asp . Please check this website often for the latest information on Event Descriptions and Clarifications, Travel and Accommodations, Schedules and any changes to the tournament.
Click here for directions to Lone Star College Cy-Fair.
For directions to the helipad for one of the B events- Bottle rockets: “West on West Road, past Barker-Cypress, and past the college entrances. You will see the new administration building to your right. Keep going until you see the Emergency Services Education Center on the right. Take the first turn right into the parking lot. You will see the Helipad directly ahead of you. Please park on the south-east part of the lot.” Google map: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=77095&aq=&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=30.544155,81.386719&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Houston,+Texas+77095&ll=29.908408,-95.695521&spn=0.002037,0.004967&t=h&z=18
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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.
Texas Science Olympiad
State Tournament Educational Outreach and Women’s Programs is proud to host the 2011 Texas Science Olympiad (TSO) for Divisions B & C (grades 6-12). This 2-day event (May 6-7, 2011) will be held on the campus of Texas A&M University with the awards ceremony at the Bryan Civic Auditorium.
Events
Updated Events list coming soon.
Regional Science Olympiad Guidelines:
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 first place team at each regional will automatically advance to state level competition.
- Remaining slots for state will be filled on a basis of percentage of schools registered (say, 1/5 of schools from each regional will advance to state, with a minimum of the first place team advancing).
- No more than 1 team from the same school may advance to State competition.
Code of Ethics
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.
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