What is Science Olympiad? The Science Olympiad is a national nonprofit organization established in 1983, devoted to improving the quality of science education, increasing the student interest in science, and providing recognition of outstanding achievement in science education by students. These goals were accomplished through classroom activities, research, training workshops, and the encouragement of intramural, district, regional, state and national tournaments. The Science Olympiad Tournaments are academic competitions, which consist of 23 events that students prepare for during the year. These challenging and motivational events are well balanced among the various science disciplines: Biology, earth science, chemistry, physics, physical science, astronomy, engineering, medicine, computers, and technology. There is also a mixture of events requiring knowledge of science facts, concepts, processes, skills, and applications. Science Olympiad is a team competition requiring teamwork, group planning, and cooperation. The emphasis is on learning, participation, interaction, having fun, and developing team spirit. Competing teams consist of 15 students. On competition day, each event test is administered during a specific one-hour period to 2-3 team members working jointly for a team score. Throughout the year, each student may be building, preparing, or studying for as many as 4 or 5 events; each event normally has 3 or 4 students mastering the skills necessary to be tested. From the combined schools, (the three middle schools and the high school) we have around 180 to 200 students participate in Science Olympiad. Your contributions would go to help students with building supplies, buying books and travel expenses to the various invitationals,regional, state and national competitions.