2008-2009 Membership

• Online Team registration is closed. Contact State Director Michele Chapman for more info.
• Science Olympiad in Action here!!

Student Eligibility

• A predominately home schooled student, who is also enrolled in our High School or Middle School, desires to join our Science Olympiad team. Can he/she?. According to IHSA rules, if a student is enrolled in a minimum number of classes at their district school, they are elgible to participate in both the state and regional levels of Illinois Science Olympiad. (Most high schools allow extracurricular involvement with enrollment in just one class, with passing grades). If you qualify for Nationals, you would need to seek permission from Nationals. Both the principal and the coach sign the registration form to verify student enrollment and grade in school.
• Is there an academic eligiblity requirement for participation in Science Olympiad? As for academic elgibility, Illinois Science Olympiad does not have a specific grade point requirement or numbers of classes that the students must be passing in. We depend on both the coaches and the principal to determine if a student is eligible to compete.

2007-2008 JV Team Clarifications

• JV team members will receive separate wristbands from the varsity team. JV team members cannot be on the varsity team or another JV team from their school.
• JV teams can have up to 15 students competing in each regional.
• JV teams and varsity teams will be competing during the same time slot (except self-scheduled events).
• JV teams must have their own devices for the engineering events (no device may be shared AND MUST HAVE THE TEAM NUMBER CLEARLY DISPLAYED).
• JV teams will be SCORED against other JV teams only.
• JV teams will NOT advance to the state competition.
• JV teams members are NOT allowed to compete in an event in place of a regular team member at the regional.
• If the varsity team does NOT make it to the state tournament, the JV team members cannot participate in the state either.
• If the varsity team DOES make it to the state tournament, JV members MAY replace regular team members at the state and national competitions.

Home School Policies

• Policies for 2007-2008
• Please look at the following information for home school teams (from 2007-2008) - Word or PDF

Science Olympiad for Elementary Schools

• Midwest Living article featuring ISO in Edison Elementary School in Elmhurst, IL: PDF