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General Information
Member of SO since 1985
Total teams 286 (Decrease 58.49% 2020 to 2021)
Division B Champion Piedmont IB Middle School
Division C Champion William G. Enloe High School
State Tournament Location North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Date April 24, 2021
Website ncscienceolympiad.ncsu.edu


North Carolina is one of the largest state organizations in the nation, with approximately 600 teams between divisions B and C (before 2020), and approximately 200-300 division A teams. It ran a version of Science Olympiad in the 1970s, which partially inspired the modern incarnation originating in Michigan. Historically, teams from North Carolina that compete at nationals have done well.


History

North Carolina has been running a version of Science Olympiad before the variant many of us know today, starting in 1974. It is a consistent competitor and often sends fairly strong schools to nationals.

Past State Champions

This is a record of the past state champions and runners-up, and their respective places at the national competition, if applicable. Scores at the state competition may be shown in parentheses.

Season Division B Division C
Champion Runner-Up Third Place Champion Runner-Up Third Place
Team Nats Place Team Nats Place Team Team Nats Place Team Nats Place Team
1985 - - - - Page High School 5th - -
1986 - - - - North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics 12th Northeast Guilford High School 26th
1987 Drexel Junior High School 11th West Rowan Junior High School 26th Chapel Hill High School 19th (tied) North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics [1] n/a
1988 Drexel Junior High School 12th Chapel Hill High School 21st North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics 39th
1989 Drexel Junior High School 14th Chapel Hill High School 28th
1990 Nash Central Middle School 34th - Page High School 27th Chapel Hill High School 48th
1991 Drexel Junior High School 17th Liberty Junior High School 35th North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics 19th
1992 Liberty Junior High School 7th Our Lady of Lourdes Middle School 31st North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics 18th Chapel Hill High School 21st
1993 Hillcrest Junior High School 33rd Our Lady of Lourdes Middle School 36th North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics 18th Garner Senior High School 25th
1994 Our Lady of Lourdes Middle School 21st Greene County Middle School 26th North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics 3rd Garner Senior High School 29th
1995 Arendell Parrott Academy 13th Our Lady of Lourdes Middle School 42nd Chapel Hill High School 19th North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics 12th
1996 Arendell Parrott Academy 27th Our Lady of Lourdes Middle School 47th North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics [2] 7th Chapel Hill High School 28th
1997 Arendell Parrott Academy 14th Mendenhall Middle School 29th Chapel Hill High School John T. Hoggard High School
1998 Arendell Parrott Academy 10th Our Lady of Lourdes Middle School 38th Chapel Hill High School 25th John T. Hoggard High School 40th
1999 Arendell Parrott Academy 5th Toisnot Middle School 31st William G. Enloe High School 26th John T. Hoggard High School 39th
2000 Arendell Parrott Academy 3rd R. Max Abbott Academy 29th William G. Enloe High School 25th John T. Hoggard High School 37th
2001 Arendell Parrott Academy 2nd Davidson IB Middle School 44th Grimsley High School 23rd Southeast Raleigh High School 40th
2002 Arendell Parrott Academy 5th Seventy-First Middle School 32nd Grimsley High School 34th Durham Academy 35th
2003 Arendell Parrott Academy 14th Seventy-First Middle School 37th Washington High School 30th Durham Academy 32nd
2004 Arendell Parrott Academy 16th Davidson IB Middle School 9th Raleigh Charter High School 30th Durham Academy 31st
2005 Davidson IB Middle School 11th Jay M. Robinson Middle School 38th Washington High School 34th Raleigh Charter High School 26th
2006 Davidson IB Middle School 13th Arendell Parrott Academy 26th Washington High School 36th East Chapel Hill High School 24th
2007 Jay M. Robinson Middle School 2nd Arendell Parrott Academy 26th Raleigh Charter High School 26th Washington High School 23rd
2008 Jay M. Robinson Middle School 16th Davidson IB Middle School 13th North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics 23rd Raleigh Charter High School 12th
2009 Jay M. Robinson Middle School (136.5) 21st Davidson IB Middle School (215.5) 24th North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics (189) 18th Raleigh Charter High School (244) 11th
2010 Jay M. Robinson Middle School 29th Arendell Parrott Academy 17th Raleigh Charter High School 15th North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics 19th
2011 Arendell Parrott Academy 28th Piedmont IB Middle School 31st North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics 17th Raleigh Charter High School 20th
2012 Piedmont IB Middle School (204) 20th Jay M. Robinson Middle School (216) 35th North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics (100) 21st William G. Enloe High School (111) 15th
2013 Fred J. Carnage Middle School (141) 28th Piedmont IB Middle School (146) 23rd Raleigh Charter High School (147) 21st William G. Enloe High School (170) 23rd
2014 Piedmont IB Middle School (96) 9th Jay M. Robinson Middle School (225) 23rd William G. Enloe High School (131) 18th Raleigh Charter High School (132) 30th
2015 Piedmont IB Middle School (57) 4th J.M. Alexander Middle School (145) 28th William G. Enloe High School (202) 20th North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics (206) 28th
2016 Piedmont IB Middle School (138) 13th Fred J. Carnage Middle School (226) 22nd William G. Enloe High School (224) 31st Raleigh Charter High School (263) 38th
2017 Piedmont IB Middle School (106) 7th Fred J. Carnage Middle School (195) 27th North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics (186) 32nd William G. Enloe High School (196) 26th
2018 Piedmont IB Middle School (146) 6th Fred J. Carnage Middle School (194) 27th William G. Enloe High School (86) 10th Raleigh Charter High School (222) 38th
2019 Piedmont IB Middle School (102) 26th Wilmington Academy of Arts & Sciences (168) 25th North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics (143) 26th William G. Enloe High School (144) 13th
2020 Cancelled due to the 2019-20 Coronavirus outbreak
2021 Piedmont IB Middle School (95) 8th Fred J. Carnage Middle School (125) 24th William G. Enloe High School (62) 8th North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics (119) 17th
2022 North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics (133) William G. Enloe High School (143) Green Hope High School (158)


Competitions

There are 14 regions in North Carolina. All regions except for Laurinburg and Cullowhee host competitions for divisions B and C. Laurinburg and Cullowhee only host Division B. Over 14,000 students participated in NCSO activities in 2014, and 18,000 in 2018.

NameTypeDateDivisionFormat
NCSO MockvitationalInvitational2020-12-05B/CMini SO
Duke InvitationalInvitational2021-01-30CMini SO
North Carolina Regional Tournaments (All Regions)Regional2021-02-20 & 2021-03-06B/CTBD
2021 North Carolina State TournamentState2021-04-23B/CTBD
Previous Invitational Tournaments and Dates

O'Neal Invitational- Division B

2016 - December 12th, 2015
2017 - December 10th, 2016
2018 - December 9th, 2017
2019 - December 8th, 2018
2020 - December 14th, 2019

Science Olympiad Showcase at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences - Division B/C

2018 - January 20th, 2018
2019 - January 12th, 2019
2020 - January 11th, 2020

Duke Invitational - Division C

2019 - January 19th, 2019
2020 - January 18th, 2020

Piedmont IB Middle School Invitational - Division B

2019 - January 26th, 2019
2020 - January 11th, 2020

CPCC Invitational - Division B

2014 - January 11th, 2014
2015 - January 10th, 2015
2016 - January 9th, 2016
2017 - January 14th, 2017
2018 - January 6th, 2018


Regional Competitions

See also: Regions of North Carolina

All regional tournaments in the 2020-21 season will be held simultaneously online across two days, February 20 and March 6. Approximately half of events will occur on February 20, and another half will occur on March 6. There will be six reorganized regional tournaments (Charlotte, Northeast, Raleigh, Southeast, Triad, and West) run through the Mini SO format and one statewide Satellite tournament that teams may opt to participate in instead of their regular regional tournament.

Pre-2021 Regions:

Region Counties Served Division Location Date
Asheville Avery, Buncombe, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Macon,
Madison, McDowell, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Swain, Transylvania, Yancey
B & C UNC Asheville
Charlotte Cabarrus, Mecklenburg, Union, Rowan B & C UNC Charlotte
Cullowhee Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Macon, Swain B Western Carolina University
Durham Durham B & C Riverside High School
Fayetteville Anson, Cumberland, Hoke, Montgomery, Richmond, Robeson, Scotland, Stanley B & C Fayetteville Tech Community College
Greensboro Alamance, Caswell, Guilford, Orange, Person, Randolph, Rockingham B & C UNC Greensboro
Greenville Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Hertford, Hyde,
Martin, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Pitt, Tyrell, Washington, Edgecombe, Halifax, Nash, Northampton
B & C East Carolina University
Hickory Alexander, Ashe, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba, Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln, Watauga B & C Catawba Valley Community College
Kinston Carteret, Craven, Duplin, Green, Jones, Lenoir, Onslow, Pamlico, Sampson, Wayne, Wilson B & C Lenoir Community College
Laurinburg Anson, Hoke, Montgomery, Richmond, Robeson, Scotland, Stanley B St. Andrews University
Raleigh Granville, Vance, Wake, Franklin, Warren B & C Southeast Raleigh High School
Southern Wake Chatham, Harnett, Johnston, Lee, Wake (south), Northern Cumberland B & C South Garner High School
Wilmington Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, Pender B & C UNC Wilmington
Winston-Salem Alleghany, Davidson, Davie, Forsyth, Iredell, Stokes, Surry, Wilkes, Yadkin B & C Wake Forest University

National Ready

North Carolina offers an invitation to compete in their National Ready Regional tournament for the top 10 teams at the previous year's state tournament. Teams that chose to compete in the National Ready Regional forego their regional tournament and automatically receive a bid to the current season's state tournament.

State Competition

North Carolina State University- April 24, 2021
Previous State Tournament Dates

April 5-6, 2003
April 23-24, 2004
April 15-16, 2005
April 7-8, 2006
April 20-21, 2007
April 4-5, 2008
April 24-25, 2009
April 23-24, 2010
April 29-30, 2011
April 27-28, 2012
April 26-27, 2013
April 25-26, 2014
April 24-25, 2015
April 22-23, 2016
April 21-22, 2017
April 20-21, 2018
April 26-27, 2019
April 24-25, 2020 (cancelled)
April 24, 2021

Past State Competition Results

Note: During the 2006 season, the state office implemented the First Place Overall Winner (FPOW) policy, which allows individuals to advance to the state tournament if they receive first place overall in an event at the regional level AND their team does not advance to the state tournament.
Division B
2002
2003
2004
2006 - No FPOWs
2006 - With FPOWs
2008 - No FPOWs
2011 - No FPOWs
2011 - With FPOWs
2013 - No FPOWs
2014 - No FPOWs
2014 - With FPOWs
2015 - No FPOWs
2015 - With FPOWs
2016 - No FPOWs
2016 - With FPOWs
2017 - No FPOWs
2017 - With FPOWs
2018 - No FPOWs
2019 - No FPOWs
Division C
2002
2003
2004
2006 - No FPOWs
2006 - With FPOWs
2008 - No FPOWs
2011 - No FPOWs
2011 - With FPOWs
2014 - No FPOWs
2014 - With FPOWs
2015 - No FPOWs
2015 - With FPOWs
2016 - No FPOWs
2016 - With FPOWs
2017 - No FPOWs
2017 - With FPOWs
2018 - No FPOWs
2019 - No FPOWs
2019 - With FPOWs

Events

North Carolina frequently runs an altered event slate at its tournaments. Below is the updated information for the 2020-2021 season.

Division B

Digital Structures replaced Boomilever.
Codebusters and Picture This were official events.
Elastic Launched Glider and Ping Pong Parachute were not run.
Fast Facts and Mystery Architecture were run as trial events.
Mission Possible was designated a trial event.

Division C

Digital Structures replaced Boomilever.
Picture This was an official event.
Detector Building, Wright Stuff, and Ping Pong Parachute were not run.
Bottle Rocket, Fast Facts, and Mystery Architecture were run as trial events.

Previous Event Changes

2011-2012

Division B

Awesome Aquifers was replaced with Heredity.
Crime Busters received altered NC rules.
Compute This replaced with Metric Mastery.
Experimental Design was replaced with altered NC rules.
Keep the Heat replaced with Shock Value.
Optics replaced with Helicopters.

Division C

Experimental Design received altered NC rules.
Forensics received altered NC rules.
Optics received Storm the Castle.
Protein Modeling was replaced with Food Science.
Robot Arm was replaced with Bottle Rocket.
Technical Problem Solving was replaced with Designer Genes.
Thermodynamics was replaced with Shock Value.
2014-2015

Division B

Can't Judge a Powder was replaced with It Matters!.
Robo Cross was replaced with Duct Tape Challenge.
Crime Busters received altered NC rules.
Experimental Design received altered NC rules.

Division C

Bungee Drop was replaced with Egg-O-Naut.
It's About Time was replaced with Crave the Wave.
Protein Modeling was replaced with It Matters!.
Technical Problem Solving was replaced with Duct Tape Challenge.
2015-2016

Division B

Experimental Design was replaced with Duct Tape Challenge.

Division C

Experimental Design was replaced with Duct Tape Challenge.
Game On was replaced with Bottle Rocket.
Protein Modeling was replaced with Food Science.
Robot Arm was replaced with Amazing Mechatronics.
2016-2017

Division B

Duct Tape Challenge was added as an NC-only event.

Division C

Duct Tape Challenge was added as an NC-only event.
Game On was replaced with Bottle Rocket.
Hydrogeology was replaced with Codebusters.
Robot Arm was replaced with Amazing Mechatronics.
2017-2018

Division B

Experimental Design was not being run at regionals, only at states.
As of the 2018 season, Duct Tape Challenge was an official event for Division B, but was run as a trial event for Division C at select tournaments. This event replaced Mystery Architecture.
Amazing Mechatronics was a trial event.
Ping Pong Parachute was an official North Carolina event.

Division C

Duct Tape Challenge was formerly a NC-only event, but this year it is a trial event.
Game On replaced with Amazing Mechatronics.
Fermi Questions replaced with Code Busters.
Experimental Design will only run at the state tournament.
Ping Pong Parachute will run at regionals and state.


2018-2019

Division B

Duct Tape Challenge and Amazing Mechatronics were run as Division B events.
Game On and Mystery Architecture were not run at the regional level.
Experimental Design was only run at the state tournament.
Ping Pong Parachute was an official event.

Division C

Experimental Design was only run at the state tournament.
Ping Pong Parachute was an official event.
2019-2020

Division B

Codebusters ran as a Division B trial event.

Division C

Division C did not receive any changes specific to North Carolina.

Teams

This list includes teams that were active in the 2018 season as well as teams that previously participated in those regions. Inactive teams are still listed in the case that a school returns to Science Olympiad and to preserve their memory. For lists of active participants only, see each regional page.

Division B

Asheville Region

Buies Creek Region

Charlotte Region

Cullowhee Region

Durham Region

Fayetteville Region

Greensboro Region

Greenville Region

Hickory Region

Kinston Region

Laurinburg Region

Raleigh Region

Wilmington Region

Winston-Salem Region

Division C

Asheville Region

Buies Creek Region

Charlotte Region

Durham Region

Fayetteville Region

Greensboro Region

Greenville Region

Hickory Region

Kinston Region

Raleigh Region

Wilmington Region

Winston-Salem Region

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