2. 2016-17 OLMCA SCIENCE OLYMPIAD WE CAN DO IT AGAIN!!!

3. TEAMS INFO OLMCA HAS A VARSITY AND A JUNIOR VARSITY. 15 TEAM MEMBERS FOR VARSITY. MORE FOR JV. WE COMPETE IN DIVISION B. WE COMPETE IN TWO INVITATIONALS (PRACTICE) AND ONE REGIONAL COMPETITION. IF WE WIN A STATE BID, THE VARSITY COMPETES AND JV MEMBERS MAY ENTER TRIAL EVENTS.

4. TEAMS INFO TEAMS ARE CREATED BASED ON THE EVENT CONFLICT SCHEDULE, EACH STUDENT’S EVENT PREFERENCES, PARTNER PREFERENCES AND RETURNING COACH PREFERENCES. MOST STUDENTS ARE PROVIDED WITH AT LEAST ONE OF THEIR PREFERENCES. EACH TWO PERSON TEAM HANDLES 1-4 EVENTS, INCLUDING ONE BUILD BOTH V AND JV TWO PERSON TEAMS TRAIN TOGETHER AND COMPETE TOGETHER AT ALL EVENTS. TEAMS CAN BE CROSS GRADE, OR BOY/GIRL DEPENDING UPON REQUESTS TEAM MEMBERS SHOULD MAKE EVERY EFFORT TO BE AVAILABLE FOR COACHING.

5. 2016-17 SCIENCE OLYMPIAD INVITATIONALS: Registration Online Monday – TENTATIVE 1/21/17 - Lisle Middle School, Lisle 2/4/17 – Grayslake Middle School REGIONAL: 3/4/17 - Harper College, Palatine STATE: 4/29/15 – Univ. of Illinois, Champaign These competitions are all day events. Some events or impounds begin as early as 7am. In order to participate, students must be available for all dates from approx. 8am – 5pm. During the competitions, parents are expected to accompany their student to their individual events. Coaches, students and parents should work together to transport and impound the builds.

6. 2017 ACADEMIC Events (16) Anatomy & Physiology Crime Busters Disease Detectives Dynamic Planet Ecology Experimental Design Fast Facts Food Science Invasive Species Meteorology Microbe Mission Optics Reach for the Stars Road Scholar Rocks & Minerals Write It Do It

7. 2016 Build Events (7) Bottle Rocket Hovercraft Mission Possible Scrambler Towers Wright Stuff Wind Power

8. COSTS THE TEAM FEE IS $150. THIS FEE INCLUDES ALL REGISTRATION FEES FOR THE 4 COMPETITIONS, THE COACHES CLINIC FEES; RULES; REQUIRED MATERIALS FOR COACHING, TEAM T-SHIRT. LABCOAT FOR NEW MEMBER IS $25

9. WE NEED COACHES!!!

10. GUIDELINES FOR COACHES All coaches must be approved chaperones i.e. complete the Safe Environment requirements and Virtus Training. No coaching can take place before this happens. Attending the Coaches Clinic in November will better prepare you to coach your team. It will take place at Naperville North High School on October 28 & 29 th. OLMCA covers the cost for you and registers you Most of us attend the Saturday workshops. Lunch is provided. Please let JB know ASAP if you would like to attend the Coaches Clinic. Joanne Blake, Ed Villasenor and Shane Staszcuk, would be pleased to mentor or provide more information and advice to any new coaches. We encourage new coaches. Call or email any time. For your convenience, Varsity and JV teams should be coached for their events at the same time. Based on your time and convenience, please do your best to provide your team with a few options for coaching times. It is expected that teams will meet with coaches at least one time per meet. If team members are unable to make your coaching times, then it becomes their parents’ responsibility to coach their student for the competitions. Coaches can provide written materials to the parent as they see fit. Once coaching has started, if a parent decides to take over their student’s coaching themselves, whether an academic event or a build event, that parent must notify Joanne Blake. Coaching can take place in the school anytime between 7AM and 6PM. Lunch/recess is also an option. Younger siblings should be placed in aftercare and not be in the halls or classrooms when coaching takes place. As competitions approach, coaching may take place at school during the Christmas holiday and on Saturdays. It is the head coach’s responsibility to determine which JV students will participate in which competitions. The Varsity team is expected to compete in all competitions. Junior Varsity team members are expected to be available to participate in all competitions. Coaches will need to buy materials, supplies, tools and/or kits and should submit receipts to Joanne Blake for reimbursement.

11. SCIENCE OLYMPIAD COACHES CLINIC All coaches are encouraged to attend. Fri or Saturday, OCTOBER 30-31 Naperville North High School Let me know asap if you are interested in attending. and I will register our group.

12. MAKING A DECISION MEET WITH YOUR STUDENT AND OTHER PARENTS – THINK ABOUT COACHING - RETURN THE HANDOUT TO ME ASAP.

13. Questions? IT’S GOING TO BE A GREAT SEASON! Thanks for coming and for your continued support of science!!!