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Heredity B / Designer Genes C Congrats to everyone for competing this past weekend! We assembled a pretty large team of experienced ESes to contribute questions and all in all, I think things turned out pretty good. Huge thanks to the UT Austin team for doing all the Scilympiad interfacing of the e...

We just had the first invite of the season and got our first look at some Florida teams this year, so here they are! Boca Raton: 1567, 44th place Orlando Science A: 2182, 87th place Buchholz: 2383, 98th place James S. Rickards A: 2405, 101st place River City: 2634, 120th place Orlando Science C: 27...

What do you think about giving a bonus for crossing a photogate that is past the vehicle target point, forcing elite teams to build advanced vehicles that can change direction (with a rubber band for example) but not penalizing more novice teams that only have the resources to build one directional...

I recognize Science Olympiad is not a democracy but it would make sense to me to have each State Director send an email (or survey monkey) to every coach in their state asking if they want new events or repeat events. The results could then be tallied and the true sentiment of the competitors recog...

or other options like postponing Nats to June Reposting again for visibility: While I completely agree that we need to keep health and safety over anything. We need to look at all the hard work and time students, coaches, mentors and volunteers has spent this year. Think about 11'th graders who hav...

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As many teams have extra time (no winding mousetraps, no setting up a launcher, no batteries) it would be interesting to have more than 1 target points - perhaps three. Teams would be given the same time (8 minutes) to complete 3 runs. The distances can be chosen between 9m-12m vertically, but in a...

This was my final year participating in Florida Science Olympiad as a competitor, as well as a Div B event coach. Although I am quite sad and disheartened about the news, at the same time, this was one of the greatest seasons I've ever had. Not only was I able to compete with my team, the RaTs, one...

Thank you for the feedback on the event - this will be useful as we continue to work on event development. If others have any input on the event, please share it here and I assure you it will be taken into consideration.

Florida State Tournament Update Currently still progressing with the tournament, however, this is subject to change at any moment. We are hoping to reach a stronger decision by the end of the week after speaking to UF administration. IF the tournament is held, the following provisions have been asc...