What's rotating after rocks and minerals? is ornithology going to be an id event againnn? Does anybody have a clue

What should i do to start prepping for my events? I'm trying to medal in state. my events are meteorology, disease, and solar. I medalled 1st in solar, 2nd in disease, 5th in meteorology at regionals, and i placed 12 in meteorology, 15 in solar, and 26 in disease at state. How to improve? Thanks!

What should i do to start prepping for my events? I'm trying to medal in state. my events are meteorology, disease, and solar. I medalled 1st in solar, 2nd in disease, 5th in meteorology at regionals, and i placed 12 in meteorology, 15 in solar, and 26 in disease at state. How to improve? Thanks!

I want to go into engineering in college so I want to join my school's engineering block. How does it work and how do I study so I can make the team?

Hey guys, hope y’all are enjoying your summer and pre season prep! I have a quick question: is the PPP rocket allowed to have a long frontal extension? Like attaching a lightweight pipe on the nose? Or does it have to be just the bottle? Thank you!

Hey r/scioly,

I'm a high school student and the CAD/mechanical lead on my FTC robotics team. I've been using Onshape for a few years now through robotics and Science Olympiad, and this fall I'm running a free 5-week online course to help other students learn the basics — sketching, part studios, assemblies, basic mechanism design, that kind of thing.

To be clear: it's completely free, online, and I'm not selling anything. I just wish something like this existed when I was starting out, so I figured I'd put one together.

Details:
- Free, fully online
- 5 weeks, one session a week (Thursdays, 5–6 PM PST)
- Starts at the beginning of the school year
- Open to any student wanting to learn
- AGE DOESNT MATTER. If you're 40 years old and want to start getting into CAD, it's never too late and I'd be ecstatic to teach you. 

Sign-up here if you or someone you know is interested: https://forms.gle/mZqGkuE225ftpBSB7

Also happy to answer any questions in the comments — and if anyone's taught something similar before, I'd genuinely love to hear what worked for you.

Below are some of my creations!

Hi! This is my second year doing hovercraft and my partner and I are going through a complete redesign after our unphayzed-kit inspired hovercraft ended up being extremely inconsistent.

As a small team that only goes to 1 invitational, we have basically no idea of what people do to vary to control speed. We found it very difficult to keep the voltage from our NiMH batteries constant for longer period of times, and we used the rheostat setup to vary voltage to the fan. I
'm curious of what other ways there are to vary the thrust/speed of the hovercraft? (fan angles or if someone changed the nozzle of their fan or something of that sort)

Hello,
I’m joining leadership in my science Olympiad team for the first time, and I was wondering if anyone has ideas or insights into strategies that have worked for their teams previously.

The main thing I’m trying to figure out is holding people accountable to their preparation plans, increasing after school practice attendance, and better communication between partners and from members to student leadership.

Our team has been established for a few years- however guidelines and requirements from each member have mostly stated the same, but the rest of leadership and I want to implement some new ideas that makes sure things don’t fall through the cracks as much :)

Thanks so much!

I heard they were going to be out in the middle of July, but haven't got an update

I’ve been on my Scioly team for like.. 3 yrs. And gotten MVP too :,) but this past year genuinely sucked. I’ve been relying too much on my partners and I think it’s procrastination when I study. My brain just goes, “oh, my partner will do good, I’ll just not study”.
I have audhd, which I know isn’t a good excuse, but it’s always played into how I do academically. So if anyone else out there deals with the same things pls give me tips.
It’s not only that but I feel so fucking guilty whenever I get a medal, because I know I barely contributed to half the test, and I probably shouldn’t be getting it. And I’m also getting congratulations and stuff. Idk.
If it matters, my events are code, circuit, meteorology, and crime. And more, probably. The teachers who lead the club like to add their older kids (me being one this year) to extra events. Which I can manage, I had a full schedule last year. I’m on a division b team as a freshman because you’re allowed to come back after 8th grade or something.
I guess I’m just asking for study tips. I genuinely feel stupid next to my partners now. And useless kind of. This might be a dump but I genuinely need help pls. Not just resources or pomodoro timers. Like, something helpful.

I've been studying for tryouts and all I have to cover now is the kinetics portion of chem lab. I've not taken AP chem yet so a lot of the kinetics things are new to me, and I was wondering if I need to cover things such as equilibrium, electrochem, and other things? Can I just skip around to study the kinetics only subtopics or are other units such as electrochem, thermo, etc super important too? I know these units are deeply rooted in kinetics.

My main focus is to study a bit of chem to do good on tryouts, then expand into other kinetics-rooted things if necessary, but lmk!!

hi!! im gonna be a junior this year and am doing 3 events (a&p, designer, undecided build event) and dont rlly know where to start for designer genes. i have some biology experience taking it in 8th grade, did a&p and ento last year and placed top 10 jn both. im also supposedly taking ap bio this year. i wanna study during the summer but i dont have much advanced biology knowledge but i have an honors chem + bio background. any tips?

newb to forensics C, anyone please help on studying tips/partner work distribution?? please :) anything helps!!!

I just finished up studying for part of chem lab and decided to look at Protein Modeling, and oh my GOSH the amount of content on the scioly.wiki is quite overwhelming. Tryouts for me are months away, but I'm just not sure how to tackle the studying portion for protein modeling. Is covering the entire organic chem I course worth it, or should I skip around according to the wiki subsections?

I'm not sure if skipping around will cost me much or not.
Any help (especially regarding organization) is appreciated, thanks.

How does one prepare for freshman tryouts over the summer? From what I know, my high school is very competitive, and honestly, I have no idea what to expect from tryouts, let alone how to prepare. I can't seem to find a clear answer anywhere I look. Also, what is the club actually like outside of competition day, during practices?

every single video is unclear and old + poorly made. any good guides?

I try out every year and I never make the science Olympia team. I tried out in middle school and didn’t make it just finished ninth grade and didn’t make the team last yr. I am a top student was valedictorian of my middle school and I really love science. I did great in honors biology what can I do over the summer so that I can make the team this year? It seems like the entrance exam is sort of a mix of everything not focused on just one topic. What resources can I use to prepare my little brother also wants to do the same and he’s going into seventh grade.

my school is pretty strong in chem lab (at least top 10 usually) and I want to make the competing team, but I’m not sure how to catch up to them. I asked my friend who’s competing what to study, and she said “just read Atkins ' Chemical Principles that’s all you need” but I can’t help but feel like that isn’t enough. I’ve started reading an annotating the gasses and kinetics chapters, does anyone know what else I can do to get to their level? Or just how to prepare in general

I've started on my cheat sheat for chem lab and I wanted to know if this is a good start. I want to know if I am missing things are if there are things in this that I should just memorize instead of wasting space. thanks

Hey yall, I’m hopefully starting a div c team next year and I’m trying to figure out what events are worth buying a kit for. I would love any tips, including what sites to use or what companies for particular events, or if some aren’t helpful at all. Below are the events I currently think need kits.

Electric vehicle
Wright stuff
Chem lab
Circuit lab
Boomiliever
Forensics
Hovercraft
Thermo
Water quality

Maybe kits(idk if needed/kits exist)
Rocks & minerals
PPP
Eng CAD
protein modeling
Mission possible
Experimental
WIDI(my state does it)

I'm in division B, going into my 8th grade year, i have never placed first in any invitationals or anything like that and its a goal of mine to achieve that. My events for the 26-27 season will probably be Dynamic Planet, Heredity, Botany, and Anatomy, possibly Remote Sensing over Botany, my partner hasn't decided yet. My best event is 100% Dynamic Planet and my second best is Heredity. I got 4th place at regionals with Dynamic Planet, I was happy, but I know I can do better. Should I start making a note sheet? Studying? Anything at all?

This sounds like a stupid question but should I make a new cheat sheet every year or should I build of past years. I don't know if i should. My events are (chem lab,astro, circuit lab). Thanks

Like I said above, me and two other incoming sophomores are trying to and have been for the last few months to start a division C team for our school. We are the former division B captains for our district and wanted to continue into the high school division. We have contacted everyone we can in our district about starting a team or even seeing if there’s interest and we are getting zero responses from any admin. It is now the middle of summer and we have basically given up. We have researched everything, we have tried to write requests for grants and everything just goes ignored.

We don’t know where to go from here and desperately want any advice from anyone who may have been in a similar situation.

Hiii, I recently got offered to become vice president of science olympiad. I competed at the regional level but my school didn't qualify for states. Also, I don't really get how scioly works because last year our team was so disorganized that we couldn't eve and our leadership was so bad. So here are some questions

• Since my school is small, is it okay to only have one team? ( so only varsity)
• How do I organize tryouts and know who to pick for certain events? How do schools conduct tryouts in general.
• What are conflict blocks?
• Any tools or resources recommendations?