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ANNOUNCEMENTS:

2010 Rule Clarifications - Check NSO site

General Information/FAQs

Seattle Central Community College Schedule - Teams attending SCCC should note minor changes to WSO Unified Schedule.

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WSO UNIFIED SCHEDULE:

All tournaments in Washington state adhere to the same schedule in order to provide continuity of competition from the regional to the state tournament. Click on the link below for the most recent schedule. Contact State Director if you are unable to open the document.

2010 WSO Unified Schedule - final

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2010 TRIAL EVENTS:

Trial events are selected by the WSO Board of Directors based on coach feedback/request and/or trial events scheduled as regular events for later years on the NSO lineup. Trial events for this year are:

B Trial Events - Geocaching, Microbe Mission

C Trial Events - Microbiology, Protein Modeling

NOTE: Inclusion of trial events at regional tournaments is at tournament director's discretion. Trial events WILL be included at the state tournament. Descriptions and rules for trial events are not in the official rules manual sent to registered teams. Go to http://soinc.org/trial_events for event parameters.

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Number of Teams Advancing from Regional Tournaments to State Tournament:

The number of teams advancing to the state tournament from regional tournaments: 20 teams per division

Numbers are determined after the registration deadline (Jan 31). The formula used is:

# teams in division at regional tournament / total # teams in that division in the state X # of total slots in that division at state tournament.

Example: 25 B teams at Everett tournament / 49 total number of B teams X 20 B slots at state = 10 teams from that regional tournament will advance to state tournament.

2010 Season:

Eastern regional (Spokane) - 6-B; 5-C

Northwest regional (Seattle) - 9-B; 8-C

Southwest regional (Longview) - 5-B; 7-C

 

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Event Alignment with Washington State GLEs:

B division alignment
B matrix
C division alignment
C matrix

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MEETINGS & COACHING WORKSHOPS:

Meetings and Coaching Workshops - Click on link for information about the NSO Summer Insitiute and other clinics.

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Fall 2009 WSO Coaches Clinics

Eastern and Southwest regions are planning coaching clinics in October. Click here for more info.

For a list of invitational tournaments (opportunities to practice prior to regional tournaments), check out the Tournaments page.

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Science Olympiad video clips

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COACHING TIPS:

Check out the latest brochure from the Puget Sound Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology - brochure

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Check out the latest brochure from the Puget Sound Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology - brochure

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Awesome Aquifers Website - brought to you by the Ground Water Foundation. Check out the Competition Tips for Students. While this event is not currently on the Science Olympiad schedule, most events rotate through every few years. Teachers may want to use this as a classroom activity.

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Probes and other measurement devices are used in a variety of Science Olympiad events like Bio-Process (B) and Technical Problem Solving (C). Texas Instruments has many products that meet event requirements. See their web site for product and education details: http://education.ti.com/educationportal/sites/US/homePage/index.html

Information on funding and grants for TI products: http://education.ti.com/educationportal/sites/US/sectionHome/grantandfunding.html

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WRIGHT CENTER FOR SCIENCE EDUCATION
A great place for coaches to find practice tests.

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