Interlake High School

Interlake High School is a Division C school from Washington State that has qualified for the State Tournament four consecutive times. The team was founded in 2010 and is currently in its fifth year. The school initially had only one team, but has grown to three teams that compete in the Northwest Regional. In the 2014 season, it sent two teams to the state tournament on April 12th at Eastern Washington University and is sending two teams to the 2015 state tournament on April 18th at Highline College.

Invitational Tournament
Interlake High School will host its inaugural Invitational Tournament on December 06, 2014. All events will be run and 28 teams will be competing.

Leadership
Interlake High School has 1 coach and 5 officers. Each Interlake team also has a build captain, who oversees that team's build events. While all the officers perform various tasks in order to make sure the club is run effectively, each officer position also has a specific job, a system that has been in place since the end of the 2014 season. The officers are elected at the end of the season, usually during the last meeting of the school year. Build captains are delegated by the officers.

Officer Positions

 * President: Oversees all general club affairs.
 * Vice President: Helps the president in overseeing all general club affairs.
 * Secretary: Manages logistics, like forms, transportation, ordering materials, etc.
 * Treasurer: Manages money, including fundraising and reimbursements to members that buy materials on behalf of the club.
 * Freshman Liaison: Focuses on getting new members to join the club, especially freshmen. This officer also communicates more with new members throughout the year in order to help them succeed during their first year. This position is filled by a student that will be a sophomore in the upcoming season in order to give underclassmen a less intimidating way to talk to the officers.

Team Structure
Interlake High School has 3 teams. The teams follow an A team, B team, C team structure, with A team being the top team, followed by B, and C team.

Tryouts
The 2015 season is the first season that tryouts will be held. Students will try out for specific sets of events that are predetermined by the officers. Each student will choose which event set he or she wants, and must take one test to tryout for a 2-event set and two tests to tryout for a 3-event set. Most build events are not included in these sets and are assigned after tryouts on a more subjective basis. The tryout test scores are not the only factor that may be considered in team placement; other factors also come into play, such as experience in Science Olympiad as well as willingness to study or build ahead of time. However, the student with the best scores for an event set will generally be placed on the top team, the student with the second best scores will be placed on second team, and so on. If a student does not make it onto any team, he or she may still help with build events or may be an alternate for any of the teams.

Day Camps
During the summer of 2014, members from Interlake High School started a summer day camp for students entering grades 5-9 in order to fundraise for the following seasons. The camps was organized and led entirely by several of the high school students in the club. Two sessions were held, each two weeks long. Each day was focused on one or two Science Olympiad events, with more involved build events like Mission Possible, which took up two days. The event-focused lessons were also interspersed with general science lectures covering topics like chemistry, kinematics, circuits, and biology.

The day camps will continue in 2015 with a one week session over Bellevue School District's Spring Break, as well as additional sessions in the summer. The summer program is expected to grow in 2015, perhaps doubling in size due to increased organization and experience of the volunteers planning the day camps.

Trivia

 * Interlake's rival school for Science Olympiad is Bothell High School

Members of the Team
watermydoing14 (2013-2016)

bernard (2012-2015)

goldiny (2014-2016)