The regionals will take place in January and will be hosted at various locations across the state.  Organization of the regionals is taking place now and based on current interest, there will be a regional in the following locations:

Regional Areas:

To compete you will need the following forms.  Bring these with you on the day of the competition, with all signatures completed.REQUIRED FORMS to be turned in at Registration:

• Tournament Roster Registration Form
• Web Page/Press Release Form
• Code of Student Conduct
• Checklist for Coaches

• Southeast Regional at Florida Atlantic University 

  Boca Raton
  777 Glades Road
  Boca Raton, FL  33431
  Regional Director:  Dr. Ingrid Johanson
  Date:  Saturday, February 2, 2008
   

  • Events to be hosted:

    • Division C

• Astronomy

• Disease detectives

• Ecology

• Food Science

• Health Science

• Herpetology

• Oceanography

• Sounds of Music

• Fermi questions

• Boomilever

 

• Division B:

• Reach for the Stars

• Disease detectives

• Ecology

• Food Science

• Anatomy

• Oceanography

• Reptiles and amphibians

• Simple machines

• Metric mastery

• Tower building

FAU Regional Schedule and Team Numbers.

• Central Regional at Wekiva High School

7401 N. Hiawassee Road
Apopka, FL 32703
Regional Director:  Christine Edwards
Date:  January 26, 2008

• Schedule of Events UPDATED 1/22/08

• Map of Wekiva High School

• Team Numbers

• Events to be hosted:  (See Schedule for Specifics)

  • A for Anatomy

  • Balloon launched glider

  • Boomilever

  • Cell biology

  • Electric buggy

  • Health science

  • Metric mastery

  • Robot ramble

  • Robo Cross

  • Rocks and minerals

  • Scrambler

  • Sounds of music

  • Tower building

  • Trajectory

  • Wright stuff

  • Write it/Do it

If you would like to set up a regional competition, contact Mike McKee at mmckee@creol.ucf.edu  

If you are interested in becoming a regional director for the Florida Science Olympiad, contact Mike McKee.

Selection and Progression of schools from Regionals to State Competition:

1.  If there are fewer than 54 registered teams per division across the state, all teams that compete in a regional competition will be invited to the state competition.  If there are more than 54 teams per division across the state, the regionals will act as a filter and only the top teams will be invited, up to a total of 54 teams, from across the state, in each division.

2.  All teams that are in counties without a prescribed regional will automatically come to the state competition. 

For those who are in a prescribed regional competition and if there are more than 54 teams per division:

3.  The top three teams from each division will automatically be invited to state.  Only one team from a single school will be permitted.  The remaining slots will be assigned based on the percentage of the total state membership per division that the regional has and the number of slots still available after teams from counties without regionals have been assigned a slot at the state.  The additional slots will be filled based on competition ranking.  For example, if a region is given 4 slots, then places 1-4 will compete at the state competition.

4.  There will be a Wild Card position available in each region.  It is suggested that whichever team wins the spirit award be allowed to progress to the state competition.  The regional director must submit rationale for the selection of the Wild Card team.

5.  The state director will invite the hosting regional team to send one team of their own. 

6.  State must be notified by February 1 of each year with the final list of attending schools, otherwise, the slots will be distributed to other regions, based on the discretion of the state director.

Example:

70 teams register in Division B, with 50 going to two regionals.  Regional A receives 30 teams, Regional B receives 20 teams.  20 Additional teams are in counties without a prescribed regional.  Therefore, 60% of the teams are in Region A, and 40% of the teams are in Region B. Three teams from each region automatically progress to the state.  Since all of the Non-Region teams progress, 17 teams from Region A are invited, and 11 teams from Region B are invited. Note that out of those invited teams, one from each region can be the host site team, and one can be a Wild Card Spirit Winner.  The rest should be the remaining top ranked teams from 4th place on.

As we organize and prepare for the regionals, more information will be posted here.  Updated 01/26/2008.