2011

Houston
Regional
Science
Olympiad
Hosted by
Robert M.
Beren
Academy
What is Science Olympiad?
The Science Olympiad (http://soinc.org/) is a nonprofit organization
developed to improve the quality of science education, increase student
interest in science, and provide recognition of outstanding achievement
in science education by both students and teachers. All of this is done
through interscholastic competitions where students in grades K-12 March 6,
(Texas State only offers programs for grades 6-12) can participate at
invitational, local, regional, state, and national level competitions 2011
against teams from all 50 states. 11333
Cliffwood Dr.
Tentative Events Houston, Texas
Division B (Middle School) Division C (High School) 77030
Solar System Astronomy
To registrar or to find out
Road Scholar Remote Sensing more information about the
Optics Optics Science Olympiad and the
Disease Detectives Disease Detectives events, please visit http://
outreach.science.tamu.edu/
Crime Busters Chem Lab scienceolympiad.aspr
Bottle Rocket Forensics
Towers Towers
For more information
Comp This Helicopters please contact:
Write It Do It Write It Do It Nicole Andrews
Anatomy Anatomy nandrews@berenacademy.org
713-723-7120
All teams are expected to compete at a regional qualifying tournaments to advance to
State competition.

Guidelines for the regional competitions are as follows:

• Each regional will host both a B and C division competition.

• These will be ‘open boundary’ regionals, so a team may select any of the regionals
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 (Invitationals) will be encouraged at high school and

• 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.

• No more than 1 team from the same school may advance to State competition.
For more information
please contact:
• For more information about the Science Olympiad events and rules please visit http:// Nicole Andrews
outreach.science.tamu.edu/scienceolympiad.aspr nandrews@berenacademy.org
713-723-7120