This year, Science Olympiad will be offering two professional development opportunities for coaches to get a start on the 2024 season – the Virtual Event Bootcamp, held online from July 17-20, 2023 and the NEW Summer Build Clinic, held in-person in Naperville, Illinois from July 26-28, 2023. 

Many Science Olympiad coaches at state and national tournaments attribute their team’s success to concepts learned at the Science Olympiad Summer Workshops. Learn more about these workshop opportunities below!

Attendees will have early access to the 2024 Rules, as well as a library of pre-session videos outlining the 33 unique events for the 2024 season. In the live programming, participants have the ability to hear from and engage with Science Olympiad experts on the events! This mix of prerecord and live, concurrent breakout sessions is designed to allow you to target the events, topics, and experiences that are most important to you while giving you the flexibility to learn on your own schedule. In addition, each day of Live programming will offer time to network with and learn from the Event Supervisors as well as other attendees.

• Tentative Live Session Schedule for the Bootcamp

Your registration fee of $399 covers the workshop, all course materials, platform fees, and a Summer Institute Surprise Pack. Register for the Virtual Bootcamp today!

Plan now to join to us in-person at our NEW learning experience the Science Olympiad Summer Build Clinic. Held at the Northern Illinois Conference Center in Naperville, Illinois July 26-28, 2023 this 2 1/2 day workshop will allow you to learn from and build with expert Event Supervisors Brian Turnbull, David Lindley, Jeremy Gerber, Brian Hoffman, and CeAnn Chalker as well as Dan Nichols and John Loehr from the National Office.

The Summer Build Clinic is a hands-on, deep dive into continuing events Flight and Wheeled Vehicle along with Air Trajectory, Robot Tour, and Towers, which are new events for the 2024 season. In addition, there will be breakout sessions that tackle preparing your team, organizing practices, preparing for tournaments, coaching, and the future direction of Science Olympiad. This event is not for students.

Summer Build Clinic attendees will experience 2 1/2 days of sessions designed to improve any school’s Science Olympiad program and help meet state core curriculum science benchmarks and standards. Each evening there will also be optional networking opportunities. Registration includes course fee, building materials, access to all Virtual Bootcamp prerecorded and live sessions, daily beverage service, three breakfasts and two lunches, a welcome gift, and a preview copy of the Rules for Middle School (Division B) and High School (Division C) Events for the 2024 season.

You will want to register early as prior in-person Summer workshops have sold out!

• Online Build Clinic Registration Form
• Tentative Build Clinic Schedule

The headquarters hotel for this event will be the Embassy Suites hotel across the street from the Northern Illinois University Conference Center but attendees can choose from any of the hotels in Naperville to book their accommodations.

Educators are eligible to apply for Title 2 Teacher Quality program funds by contacting their school district science curriculum administrator.

The University of Central Oklahoma College of Mathematics and Science played host to the Oklahoma Science Olympiad State Tournament on April 1st.

The competition, which is comprise of 46 STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) events, is part of the national Science Olympiad program, the premier team STEM competition in the nation, providing standards-based challenges to 6,000 teams at 425 tournaments in all 50 states.

“The College of Mathematics and Science is pleased to be the program sponsor of the Oklahoma Science Olympiad and the host of the State Tournament for the last 10 years.” said Bob Melton, State Director of the Oklahoma Science Olympiad.

“If a young person wants to be an engineer, a chemist, a biology teacher, an astronaut, an astrophysicist, a math professor, or all of the above, Science Olympiad lets them try it on for size. Science Olympiad events touch every letter in STEM so they can explore any pathway. Science Olympiad helps students find their what, how, and maybe most importantly, their why.”

Casady Upper School in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma placed first among high school teams at the tournament and Oakdale School in Edmond, Oklahoma placed first among Middle School teams. Both teams will now represent Oklahoma at the National Science Olympiad Tournament to be held May 19-20 at Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas.

The Science Olympiad National Tournament is the pinnacle of achievement for 120 of the country’s best Science Olympiad teams and the Science Olympiad Global Ambassador Team from Japan, representing more than 2,000 students.

Other teams in the State Tournament included Norman North High School, Norman, Oklahoma which placed second in the High School Division and Jenks High School, Jenks, Oklahoma which placed third. Casady Middle School, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, placed second in the Middle School division of the tournament with Taloga Middle/Elementary School, Taloga, Oklahoma, earning third place.