Martinez, Scott / Mira Loma Science Olympiad Invitational

Why: Invitationals are a great way to enrich the overall Science Olympiad experience, hone skills, test devices, and in general improve your team prior to the “official” competitions. Additionally, students can meet like-minded students from distance places, which can create long-lasting friendships. In other parts of the country, some teams compete in as many as a dozen tournaments each year.

Events: We will be running all events from the 2023 national tournament (weather and event supervisor availability permitting). In the past, we have also run trail events and will always be looking for school's to step up and run a trail event (a list of possible events is on the national site under "events").

Level of Events: Some events have different requirements based off of the level of competition (regional, state, national), unless there is a specific invitational level, this invitational will be run at the state level. Additionally, we ask all event proctors to realize the varying levels of students in the competition and write their exam with a range of questions (You do not want several teams scoring 100% on your exam nor the high score to be 15%).

Registration: will open September 20 at 4:00 pm (pacific time) and we will be using an electronic registration this year (Click here for the Google Forms registration). While we plan on having 30 teams in each division, in order for more schools to participate, early registration will be limited to ONE team per school. On October 1, we will open remaining spots up to second teams from previously accepted schools; second teams will be accepted based on the order of their original registration. If you are interested in bringing two teams, please sign up for two teams on they initial registration form.

NOTE: Since this is an invitational, selected second teams have been invited from various schools prior to October 1 and potentially in excess of the limit we have imposed. If, for travel purposes, you need to know the number of competitors competing prior to October 1, contact the tournament director (we are sympathetic to traveling with Olympiad teams over great distances).

UPDATE: (10/05/22): There are spots open in the for B division, C division is on a waitlist (and likely an email list for next year).

FAIR WARNING: Due to high demand, the last few years prior to the shutdowns, effectively no school got to bring a second team besides the ones that had prearrangements with the tournament director.

Regional Registration: Prior to the invitational, all teams must be registered with their local regional director. We will verify registrations early in November so you do not need to have the teams registered at the initial sign up for our invitational.

Requested Donation: We are asking for a donation of $150.00 PER TEAM (not per school. i.e. if your school is bringing two teams, your registration would be $300) to help us run Science Olympiad. No payment is required (or desired) until the team's acceptance is verified (i.e. the team name appears below). Your receipts will be in the welcome package you will receive upon check-in. If you absolutely need your receipt earlier, please let us know and we will work something out.

Please ensure you can come before paying. Returns are a logistical nightmare.

There are two options this year:

Click here to pay with a credit card

For a check: Please send your donation to the following address:

Mira Loma High School

Attn: Scott Martinez

4000 Edison Ave.

Sacramento, CA 95821

Please make the checks out to Mira Loma Science Olympiad and put your school name in the memo section.

Registration Deadline: December 1, 2020 or when full. Last year it took only a few weeks for both divisions to fill so don't delay.

Event Proctors: Each team is expected to run an event, in fact, if we fill up, some events will be doubled up and/or some schools won’t have to run anything. If we do not have enough teams, some teams will have to run a second event. Once again, each TEAM, not each SCHOOL, if you are bringing two teams be prepared to run two events. Teams are expected to supply all equipment, personnel, and copies (of exams and all necessary paper materials) for their event(s). When registering the team, please put what events you can run and we will assign teams to the various events. The order of registration will be taken into account, but we believe having qualified people running each and every event is more important than team preferences. An electronic copy of both the exam and answer key for each event needs to be turned in by check-in so they can be disseminated to each participating school in that division (specific details to follow on how this will be done).

Test Returned: All tests taken the day of the competition will be returned to the coaches after the awards ceremony. All blank tests and answer keys will be available to coaches as well. Blank tests and answer keys will not be made available to schools until we receive the blank test and answer key for the event(s) they are running (this has been a problem in years past leading to not all events being available to all teams). Please remember, receiving copies of the tests and answer keys used the day of the invitational is a privilege for teams attending the tournament. Participating teams who withhold exam materials or show indiscretion with exam distribution may be excluded from future competitions.

Awards: Medals will be awarded for the top 5 finishers in each event for official events; for trial events (if any), only the top three places will get medals.  Trophies will be awarded for the top 5 schools (if two teams from the same school are in the top five, only the higher ranked team will take home a trophy and other lower ranked schools will move up one slot).

Sign up events: Specific time sign ups for the engineering/sign up events will be done on-line (specific details TBA).

Schedule of events: The schedule of events will be as close to the Northern California State Tournament as we can get (as of Nov 1). Warning to out of state teams, the Northern California State schedule has recently matched the national schedule but we are not 100% confident that will be the case.

Click here for the B Division Schedule

Click here for the C division schedule

Photographs: Photographing/video recording of your own team and/or their device(s) is allowed, but photographing/video recording of other teams, their team members and/or their device(s) is specifically NOT ALLOWED (this is standard for Science Olympiad).

Homerooms vs. “Campsite”: The last couple of years (we were in person) we have been able to provide homerooms for teams (usually two teams in one room-one B and one C), this year we are currently planning on requiring teams to set up camps outside. If you are traveling from out of state, we will be able to find a room for you, even if local teams have to camp (an EZup isn’t exactly carry-on size).

Questions: Contact the Tournament Director, Scott Martinez, at scmartinez@sanjuan.edu

Click here for an informational flier about the invitational

Registered teams:

Team #	Paid	Team Name*	Event(s) Running	School Name
1	N/A	Red	Tournemant	Mira Loma High School
2	N/A	Blue		Mira Loma High School
3			C Cell Biology	Clayton Valley Charter HS (CVCHS)
4	Yes			Stratford Preparatory Blackford
5	Yes	Black	C Detector Building, C WiFi, & C Remote Sensing	Camas High School
6	Yes	Red	B & C Solar Power-Trial	Camas High School
7	Yes	Blue	C Environmental Chem	Milpitas High School
8	Yes	Gold	C Fossils-Trial	Milpitas High School
9	Yes	Xenon	B Crave the Wave	Castro Valley High School
10	Yes	Argon		Castro Valley High School
11	Yes	Red	C Foresrty	Troy High School
12	Yes	Black		Troy High School
13	Yes	Red	C Fermi Questions	Lynbrook High School
14	Yes		C Dynamic Planet	Franklin-Stockton
15	Yes	Green	C Trajectory	Palo Alto Senior High School
16	Yes	White		Palo Alto Senior High School
17	Yes		C Forensics	Silver Creek High School
18	Yes		B Flight	Pleasant Grove High School
19	Yes		B Road Scholar	Saratoga High School
20	Yes	Blue	look #13	Lynbrook High School
21	Yes		C Flight	Granite Bay
22	Yes		B Bridge	Albany High School
23	Yes		B & C CodeBusters
24	Yes
25	Yes		C It's About Time	Laguna Creek High School
26	Yes		C Disease Detectives	Monta Vista High School
27	Yes		C Scrambler	Ukiah High School
28	Yes	Black		Mountain View High School
29	Yes		C Chemistry Lab	Sheldon High School
30	Yes		C Anatomy and Physiology	Mountain House High School
31	Yes		B Solar System	Cosumnes Oaks High School
32	Yes	Gold	C Astonomy	Mountain View High School
33	Yes		B Dynamic Planet	Foothill High School
34	Yes		C Green Generation	Seton Catholic College Prep
35	Yes	Red	B Green Generation	American High School
36	Yes	Blue	C Bridge	American High School

			*If only one team, school name is team name.


Team #	Division	Team Name*	Event(s) Running	School Name
41	Yes	Gold	B Anatomy and Physiology	Churchill Middle School
42	Yes	Purple		Churchill Middle School
43	Yes	White		Churchill Middle School
44	Yes	Green	B & C Write it Do it	Thomas Russell Middle School
45	Yes	Red	B Wheeled Vehicle	Sierra Vista Middle School
46	Yes	Black		Sierra Vista Middle School
47	Yes	Green	B Roller Coaster	Greene Middle School
48	Yes	Red		Greene Middle School
49	Yes	White	B & C Write it Do it	Thomas Russell Middle School
50	Yes		B Rocks and Minerals	Arden Middle School
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53	Yes			Fletch Middle School
54	Yes			Hikmah School
55	Yes		B Storm the Castle & B Fossils-Trial	Wicklund Elementary
56	Yes		B Forestry & B Botany-Trial	Rancho Milpitas Middle
57	Yes	Black	C Rocks and Minerals	Chaboya Middle School
58	Yes	White		Chaboya Middle School
59	Yes	A	B Experimental Design	Albany Middle School
60	Yes	B	B Meteorology	Albany Middle School
61	Yes	Red		Canyon Middle School
62	Yes	Gold	B Fast Facts	Canyon Middle School
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65	Yes	A	B Can't Judge a Powder	Kennedy Middle School
66	Yes	B		Kennedy Middle School
67	Yes	A	B Bio Process Lab	Orange County School of the Arts
68	Yes	B		Orange County School of the Arts
69	Yes	Blue		Jeffrey Trail Middle School
70	Yes	Gold	B Disease Detectives	Peter Hansen Elementary ( HANSEN)
71	Yes	Green		Peter Hansen Elementary ( HANSEN)
72	Yes		B Sounds of Music	Skyridge Middle School
73	Yes		B Crime Busters	Liberty Middle School
74	Yes	Orange		Jeffrey Trail Middle School
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			*If only one team, school name is team name.

Last Modified on March 16, 2023