The 10th Annual

Washtenaw Elementary Science Olympiad

was held at

Pioneer High School on

Saturday, April 21st!

Some statistics:

There were officially 1621 student participants representing 25 schools. They competed in 20 different events in what is the largest Elementary Science Olympiad in the Country. Every School earned at least one Medal.

Adult volunteers that make this happen include: 9 Board Members, 28 Event Supervisors, 43 Head or Co- Head school team coaches, event coaches at each school and volunteers for the day of the Olympiad numbering about 600.

Please check out and patronize, the local organizations that support us .

Results are now Posted for the 2012 Competition!

Special Thanks to all the Volunteers, but especially to the Event Supervisors, who prepared the events .

 WESO is a proud recipient of a grant from the Ann Arbor Public Schools Educational Foundation to help fund the Open Events at this year's Science Olympiad.

Detailed Event Descriptions and study guides are available,

follow the links on the left side menu to the pages.

All Updates to the event descriptions, and questions and answers about events are posted to the WESO Update Blog.

Or you can follow the link in the left side menu that says

"Updates and Announcements" to get to the blog from here.

Your WESO Board Members:

Susan Blackburn, President

Nirmala Rajaram, Vice President

Nancy Dean, Treasurer

Gilda Johnson, Secretary

Zali Mustapha

Jeff Micale

Jane Levy

Hedieh Briggs

Ann Nicklas

Olympiad Code of Conduct

Student participants are expected to compete in tournament events with an honest effort to follow the rules and the spirit of the competition. The goal of the competition is to give one’s best effort while displaying honesty, integrity and sportsmanship. Students, coaches, parents and guests are expected to display courtesy and respect toward Olympiad officials, other teams and guests of the Olympiad. Failure to show honesty and/or courtesy by a participant, coach, parent or guest of the team may result in the disqualification of the team from the event, the entire tournament or future tournaments.

Statement of Non-discrimination

No person shall be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination in any educational program or activity available in any school on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, creed, political belief, age, national origin, linguistic and language differences, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, height, weight, marital or familial status, or disability.

What this means is that you may include any student on your Science Olympiad team as long as they compete at her/his grade level. Each student counts as one team member.

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