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TOPIC: SCIENCE OLYMPIAD

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JEENA MAM(LECTURER IN PHYSICAL SCIENCE, MMTC, VILAKUDY)

SUBMITTED BY,(PHYSICAL SCIENCE,MMTC ,VILAKUDY)

JESNA.A

REGISTER NO: 18214354010

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INTRODUCTION

Science Olympiad is an American elementary, middle and high school team competition in which students compete in ‘events’ pertaining to various scientific disciplines, including earth science, biology chemistry, physics and engineering. Over 6700 teams from 50 U.S states compete each year. There are three levels of competition : Regional, State and National. In addition some states or privates groups offer ‘invitational’ tournaments which excel at the regional and state competitions. Teams which excel at the regional competitions advance to the state and then to the national level.

Winners later receive several kinds of awards from ribbons to trophies. Science Olympiad is not associated with the international science Olympiads which follow a completely different formal and set of rules.

CONTENT

The first recorded science Olympiad was held on Saturday, November 23, 1974 at St. Andrews. Preshyterian College in Laurinburg, North Carolina. Dr. Donalb Burner and Dr. David Wetmore were the originators of this event. Fifteen schools from north and South Carolina participated in this event. It was a day-long affair, with competition and demonstrations for high school students in the areas of biology, chemistry and physics. There were four event periods during this day and each event period had one fun event (like beaker race or paper air plane), one demonstration (like glass blowing and holography), and one serious event (like periodic table quiz or science bowl).

An article by David Wetmore was published in the journal of Chemical Education in January 1978 documenting the success of recruting students through science Olympiad. St. Andrews Preshyterian College continues to host a science Olympiad tournament to this day.

Mr. ’’John Jack’’ Cairns was a teacher at Dover high school in delaware when he learned about the science Olympiad tournament in North Carolina. He shared this information with Dr.Dougess R .Macbeth, the Deleware state science supervisor.Mr.Cairns was appointed to a steering committee to organize the first science Olympiad in deleware which took place at deleware state university in the spring of 1977. A write up in the science Teacher of December 1977 caught the attention of Dr. Gerard putz,who proposed that the programme be expanded throughout the united states. After competition tests in Michigan at the Lawrence institute of technology and oakland university in 1983

and 1984, Putz and Deleware director John Cairns took their plan for a national competition to the National Science Teacher Conference in Boston.

The first National Tournament of 17 states, held at Michigan State University in 1985. Since then the program has expanded greatly with 60 teams present in each division at the National Tournament.

DIVSIONS

There are four divisions in the hierarchy of science olympiad.

Division A1for elementary school (grades k-3).

Division A2 for elementary school (grades 3-6).

Division B for middle school (grades 6-8).

Division C for high school (grades 9-12).

The national tournament and generally state and regional tournaments are only for divisions B and C. Division A teams usually have separate interscholastic tournaments, apart from the more common intra- school competitions. Note that

6th and 9th grades have the option of competing in either of the two divisions in which they meet the grade requirements and are part of the competing school. A middle school may only use up to 5 members who have graduated to the next school.If they are in 9th grade or lower. Students in grades lower than the division in which the school competes in may also be on the team. Teams are restricted to

five 9th grade or lower. Students in grades lower than the division in which the school competes in may also be on the team. Teams are restricted to five 9th graders for division B and seven 12th graders for division students may not

participate on multiple teams, eg. A 9th grader on both a high school and middle school team would not be allowed

SCORING

The winner of the competition is determined by each team’s overall score is then calculated by adding together the rank of the school in all events (eg. 1st place recieves 1 point, 2nd place 2 points etc.) and having the team with lowest overall score is declared the winner. However, it should be noted that some state competitions choose to score the competition by awarding more points per place (eg. 13 points for 1st place, 12 points for 2nd place etc.) and having the team with the most points being declared the winner.

Science Olympiad competitions occur at the regional state and national level. Normally the top few teams advance from the regional level to state competition, the exact number depending on how many region there are and how many teams compete.

CONCLUSION

Science olympiad is an American elementary, middle, and high school team competition in which students compete in events pertaining to various scientific disciplines, including earth science, biology, chemistry, physics, and engineering. IT helps the students to get more information about the science subjects. So these programmes can develop a positive scientific attitude among childrens and helps to recognize and nuture their talents.

REFERENCE

Nurturing Sciences Young Elite – Haler, Scott

Journal of Chemical Education- Student Recruitment Through Science Olympiad- Wetmore, David. E

Science Talent Search Through The Years – Ramirez, Eddy