If your team is participating in the Illinois Science Olympiad State Tournament, your coach has received an email with a bid to compete and information regarding the tournament.

In order to participate, your team’s coach will need to report to the tournament headquarters (Huff room 114) on the Friday 4/17/26 or Saturday 4/18/2026 during the times indicated below to submit all required paperwork fully completed and signed by the team coach and school principal to attest that all information is correct.  Your coach will receive wristbands for student competitors and additional information at this time.

• Regular:

  Friday, April 17th, 2026 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm and 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm.

• Late

  Saturday, April 18th, 2026 at 6:30 am.

• Registration form (must be signed by the principal)
• Alternate Registration form (can bring a maximum of 10 alternates)
• Participant Release form
• Medical form (you can use the same form that you used for the regional tournament; this must be shown but will not be collected)
• Volunteers – More information will be coming in a separate email regarding team volunteers. All teams are required to have an adult volunteer for one 4 hour time slot in a NON BUILDING event. All volunteers will sign up through our volunteer website (coming soon) and that information will come to you in a separate email.
• Don’t forget to complete your demographic survey on or before March 24th, 2026 

The Armory will be available for test your helicopters on FRIDAY April 17, 2026 from 5:30 PM until 9:00 PM.  Per National Science Olympiad rules, no other event testing is available outside of this window.

• Registration and Headquarters Huff Room 114

• Arbitration and scoring Huff 209

• Bus parking for teams will be at the State Farm Center (Assembly Hall)
• This is the official list of free parking on weekends, but most lots are free on weekends excluding a few meter lots and housing lots. Weekday and Overnight | Parking Services (illinois.edu).
• The free lots closest to the quad are be D5, D1, C9, and C5.
• Parking is available from 5:00 pm Friday through Saturday evening in most University of Illinois parking lots labeled “Monday through Friday.” Parking is NOT permitted in any University lot or specific parking spaces marked “rented 24 hours, 7 days a week.” NOTE: Street parking meters supplied by the cities of Champaign and Urbana are not considered University parking and will be strictly enforced on Saturday.

• Hospitality rooms around campus for coaches, event supervisors and our volunteers only. It is not for competitors or parents who are not volunteering.
• Locations
  • Noyes Lab Room 162
  • Huff 114
  • Armory 134
• These will have a continental breakfast in the morning, a cooler with pop and water during the day, lunch starting around 11 AM and some snacks after lunch.

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