Sierra Vista Middle School



Sierra Vista Middle School is a Division B school in Irvine, California. The city of Irvine is located about 40 or so miles southeast of the city of Los Angeles, CA. We are also 14 miles southeast from Disneyland. We compete in the Orange County Regional Science Olympiad part of the Southern California State Science Olympiad.

We won 5th place at Orange County Regionals this past year (behind Kraemer 2 by 2 points!!) However, our school placement was 3rd overall.

GO CHARGERS!!  '''WE HAVE THE POWER OF AHRI ON OUR SIDE. DO NOT DEFY DARE DEFY US.''' 

Friends, Enemies, and other relations
Our school has a historical rivalry with our neighbor: Jeffery Trail Middle School.

We have somewhat friendly relations with the other Irvine teams (Rancho San Joaquin and Venado), and other OC schools such as Brea, Ladera Vista (they have Vista in their name as well!), and Fisler.

If you ever see us playing volleyball, you're always welcome to join in as long as you don't intentionally inflict bodily harm on our teammates!

Goodbye, Muscatel. You were a great competitor to compete against.

Our Program
At the 2016 Southern California State Competition, we placed 15th, with 361 points. This is an improvement from the previous year, where we placed 16th with 393 points. Jeffery got 6th.

Our program has 33 members for the 2017-18 season. We have one head coach, three other assistant coaches, and a group of amazing parents every year. We have historically been the second most successful team in IUSD, behind our longtime rival, Jeffery Trail (who is our rival in almost everything). We have an amazing support team of adults including, parents(we love you moms and dads!), head coach, and assistant coaches!

We almost always go to states, where we usually perform somewhat ok and have a lot of fun and learn a lot of new things!

Our practice schedule is everyday in class which is about an hour or so and event-scheduled tutorial meetings. We are free to make our own meetings outside of school for events that need more work.

For our leadership structure, we select one person to be team captain. This year, we have two co-captains who work together to give motivational speeches. That is their most recognized duty, but they also serve as an example for the rest of the team and report back to the coach on the team's condition and suggestions for improvement. Under the captains are the team leads, one person who is the head of each event. The team leads, captain, and coach discuss ways to improve the team at leader meetings every two weeks or so.

Our support from our school sadly plummeted two years ago, since we lost our status as an Elective class, leading to reduced funding. Fortunately, we have gained more support from our school and we have regained our Elective status.

In our team, a value we always stress is teamwork and making sure to have fun. While we all work hard and focus on succeeding in our events, we do our best to have a good time working together with our teammates. After all, we are all a bunch of science nerds clustered together in a classroom. It is inevitable that we share the same interests and fall into a state of mutual nerdiness! Competitions are always a time of team bonding, and we receive a lot of dirty looks from neighboring teams at awards ceremonies because of all the eardrums we rupture while cheering for competitors.

Members, past and present (future members will be added as soon as time travel is possible)
The following members are or were part of the dankest Scioly crew in Irvine, California, and the whole U.S. and all of North America and all of the Western Hemisphere and all of the Northern Hemisphere and the entire planet and the entire solar system and in the Milky Way and in the entire Local Group and the entire Virgo Supercluster and the entire observable universe.

Team Leaders:
 * Way2Phet -2015/16
 * Kenshi takahashi -2016/17
 * knowthewrightstuff -2017/18
 * K.tofu.scioly -2017/18

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Director of Scioly.org Relations:
 * M_mo 612 -2015/16

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