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What is Science Olympiad?
Science Olympiad is a nation-wide competition where teams of 15 students representing their school work throughout the year to build, study, and experiment. There are invitational competitions and a regional, state, and national level competition near the end of the school year, where students show off what they've learned all year by competing with other schools. There are 23 events to compete in, and each event requires 2-3 students to represent the entire team. The team who does best overall in all 23 events wins the competition. Events can cover topics across physics, chemistry, biology, and earth science, and some may ask students to build a device. |
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Practices and Competitions
Event heads (fellow students) act as coaches and lead weekly 1-2 hour-long practices in order to prepare for competitions. During practices students learn content, build and test devices and prepare materials for competitions.
During the winter (November-February), Pioneer attends 4-5 invitational tournaments, bringing 2-3 teams to each one. Our goal is to make sure that everyone working hard in 3-5 events gets at least one opportunity to compete in those events.
In March comes our Regional Tournament, where we bring 1 primary team and 1-2 alternate teams. The goal is for the primary team to place in the top 2 at Regionals and advance to states. The top 2 teams at the State tournament advance to Nationals.
Event heads (fellow students) act as coaches and lead weekly 1-2 hour-long practices in order to prepare for competitions. During practices students learn content, build and test devices and prepare materials for competitions.
During the winter (November-February), Pioneer attends 4-5 invitational tournaments, bringing 2-3 teams to each one. Our goal is to make sure that everyone working hard in 3-5 events gets at least one opportunity to compete in those events.
In March comes our Regional Tournament, where we bring 1 primary team and 1-2 alternate teams. The goal is for the primary team to place in the top 2 at Regionals and advance to states. The top 2 teams at the State tournament advance to Nationals.
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Important Dates for the 2024-25 Season
NATIONAL TOURNAMENT: 5/23/2025-5/24/2025 - University of Nebraska-Lincoln STATE TOURNAMENT: 4/26/2024 - Michigan State University REGIONAL TOURNAMENT: 3/15/2025 - University of Michigan North Campus Southview Invitational: 2/22/2025 UMSO Invitational: 2/15/2025 Solon Invitational: 2/1/2025 OSU Invitational: 1/25/2025 Northview Invitational: 12/7/2024 |
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Our Team
We have been a Science Olympiad team since 1987. Our team is very active in helping to coach local middle school's Science Olympiad teams, helping them to perform outstandingly at the State and National levels. In 2019, we made it to Nationals for the first time since 1994 with the hard work of our team and lots of help from parents, teachers, and coaches. Surprising everyone, we placed 5th overall at Nationals! Since then, we've also made Nationals in 2021, 2023, 2024, and 2025. We're one of the most engaging, rewarding, and successful academic teams at Pioneer. We've traveled to Cornell in New York and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. We're a group of students that are passionate about STEM, and a close-knit community. Check out these articles on our team: |
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Previous Results:
2024-2025 year: 1st at Regionals, 2nd at States, 14th at Nationals 2023-2024 year: 1st at Regionals, 1st at States, 11th at Nationals 2022-2023 year: 1st at Regionals, 2nd at States, 24th at Nationals 2021-2022 year: 2nd at Regionals, 4th at States 2020-2021 year: 1st at Regionals, 2nd at States, 21st at Nationals 2019-2020 year: COVID-19 :( 2018-2019 year: 1st at Regionals, 2nd at States, 5th at Nationals 2017-2018 year: 1st at Regionals and 4th at States 2016-2017 year: 1st at Regionals and 5th at States 2015-2016 year: 3rd at Regionals 2014-2015 year: 4th at Regionals |
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To join the team, pick out 3-5 events that you are interested in and that don't conflict when the registration form comes out. Please read directions carefully.
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