Birmingham Science Olympiad
Important Information & Reminders
1. TEAMS
Please make sure your students know what team number they are. It will be
extremely important for schools that have two or more teams. We will ask students to put
their school name & team number on all of their event sheets so we can identify first
through sixth place award winners.
School
BCS
Beverly
Bingham Farms
Greenfield
Harlan
Pembroke
Pierce
Quarton
West Maple
Team
Number(s)
1&2
3&4
5&6
7&8
9 & 10
11 & 12
13 & 14
15 & 16
17 & 18
Coaches
Tammy Brown and Erica Maliszewski
Marni Freedman and Melissa Konen
Pamela Lucken
Nathan Wells
Dawn Leslie and Candi Gorski
Melissa Lane
Julie Laburn and Jim Lalik
Scott Sheckell
Michelle Ladd and Maria Broz
2. REGISTRATION
On Saturday, one coach from each team needs to check-in at the information desk (Please
decide who will do this before Saturday). We will have a packet with information that
you may need throughout the day. Each team will have a table in the cafeteria to use as a
home base and to leave personal belongings. Please direct your team members to meet at
their home base by 8:15 am. Students do not check in at the registration desk. They
should go straight to their home base!!! We will line each school up and parade into
the Gym at 8:30 am for the opening ceremonies.
3. WHAT TO BRING ON SATURDAY
Please copy and hand out the included packet for all students. In addition, please provide
name tags with students’ names, their team number, their events, and event times.
Make sure they bring their schedule and school map with them the day of the event.
Please ask students to also bring some pencils or pens to use throughout the day. (Ours
keep disappearing throughout the day and we tend to run short during the last few hours
of the competition.)
Remind students to bring their event supplies! Each team needs to bring the following:
Precision Ping Pong Launcher and Water Rocket.
4 events for exhibition only –Index cards for Weather or Not, Rock Hound- completed
chart to help identify specimens and answer characteristic questions. If students don’t
have these items they can still come during their designated times for even and odd
teams.
OVER
4. INFORMATION DESK
We will have an information desk in the front hallway, by the main doors, from 7:45am
to 1:00 pm. If you have any questions or need some assistance please go there.
5. FOOD
Please make sure your school provides lunch for the kids. A complementary lunch will
be available for the building representatives (you) and judges in the Art Room - Room 24
from 11:00 am – 12:45 pm.
6. OPEN EVENTS
When students are not in an event or preparing for an event they need to go to an open
event. Please ask students to only go to each open event once. Students are welcomed and
invited to watch other activities throughout the day to encourage their team members.
Please help to make sure your students are not wandering the building with nothing to
do!!
7. PRESENTATION & AWARD CEREMONY
After the last event is completed, students are to go immediately to the gym for the
awards ceremony. Schools are to be seated in their designated areas in the gym. All team
members are required to be in the gym during this time. Students will be called up to
accept the 1st through 6th place individual event awards and two trophies will be
presented to the top two scoring teams.
8. GUESTS
Parents and other guests are welcome to come and watch the activities. There are many
events open for anyone to observe quietly.
9. CLOSED EVENTS
The following events are closed: A is for Anatomy, Starry Starry Night, Weather or
Not, Zowie Estimation, Circuit Wizardry, Crime Busters, Reflection Relay,
Charges Up, Grasp a Graph, Rock Hound and Bridging the Gap. This means only
participants are allowed in the room. Events may be closed for several reasons: due to
limited space, events that have a test that must be completed and because of the
temptations that others may have to assist team members during the event.
10. RAINY DAY PLAN
Water Rockets (playground fields) will launch outside rain or shine. If there is lightning
or thunder we will be unable to complete this event.