Bay Area Science Olympiad Tournament

Announcements

12/9/24

I am excited to announce our location for the March 8, 2025 BARSO tournament is the College of San Mateo!

12/6/24

Hello BARSO!

I am excited to release our tentative schedule and team numbers. I do not foresee the schedule changing, but there is always a possibility if other issues arise. The schedule is on the first page of the attached document and the team numbers are on the second page of the document. If you need help understanding the schedule, please reach out. Tentative Schedule

Payment! Please get your payments turned in by January 15, 2025. If you are dealing with school paperwork and this date is a challenge for you, please let me know.

Signing up for the self-schedule events. I am looking at doing that process at the end of January or early February. If I have not received payment at that time, you will not be able to sign up for those events until the day of the tournament where you will not have as many options available.

I am planning to have a set of volunteers running all of the events during the competition like Peter has done in the past. If you have someone that is interested in volunteering, please have them contact me!

I am still waiting on final confirmation for our location. I will say it is on the peninsula but I want to wait to do a formal announcement until we have final confirmation.

Previous communications can be found here:

Hope you have a wonderful holiday season!


 11/1/24

I am excited to announce our Regional Tournament Date! BARSO will happen on March 8, 2025, location TBA. Please register and pay ASAP!  


9/9/24

Welcome to the 2024-2025 Science Olympiad season! Registration for the Bay Area Regional Tournament is now open. Letta Meyer (barsodirector@gmail.com) is the new regional director for the Bay Area Region in Northern California

This year the Alameda County schools has formed a new region. The Bay Area Region consists of schools from the Bay Area that are not in Alameda or Santa Clara County.  If your school is located in Santa Clara County, contact James Hill (sccscioly@gmail.com) for registration information. If your school is located in Alameda County, contact Peter Hung (peterhung@norcalscioly.org) for registration information.

For the 2024-2025 season, we will continue to lift the limit on the number of teams that a school can enter. The registration fee will be $390/team. We're working to confirm the location and date of the Regional Tournament, to be posted once confirmed. The tentative schedule for the Regional Tournament will be posted soon as well. In the meantime, the list of 2025 events can be found here and the 2024-2025 rules are available at the soinc.org.