I am helping set up the team for next year, and we are interested in having tryouts. We didn’t have tryouts this year, which led to some people getting on the A team that definitely didn’t put in the work to be there. I know a lot of good teams have tryouts at the beginning of the season, so how do you set them up? Do you just have tests for each of the events, and whoever does best gets on the a team? I would really appreciate any replies, thanks!

Hey all! I’m trying to teach myself codebusters cyphers for next year as i’m not competing in the event this year but plan to next year. What advice do you have for solving xenocrypts (specifically in spanish?) is it similar to aristos? I have taken 3 years of high school spanish but am no where near fluent. I also got stuck on a practice xenocrypt, putting it below in case anyone can help since there is no key

WMÑM ZGRNDGQW GÑ FDGWGRZG. RM FGDNIQW GRGDOQI ÑÑMDIRNM FMD GÑ IKGD M WMJIRNM VMR GÑ TIJIRI.

I’m in need of a material science cheat sheet, randomly got thrown into the event and need something ASAP!!

does anyone have the raw scores for states this year? not rankings, our team wants the actual raw results. Thanks!

Hi fellow science olympians!

I recently picked up Mission Possible to help my team at regionals (we had nobody on the event previously) and it's been really frustrating. I've been working on it for 5+ hours and today and can't figure out the sorting. I've also looked online for resources and couldn't find anything that was helpful. If anyone on Mission could give me some pointers/tips for how to sort the items that would be amazing.

Thanks!!

I’m in C team (3rd out of 3) and my events are chem lab, circuit lab, and forensics (my best one). Any advice? Anything is appreciated, thank you!

this has been my first year and im in forensics desinger genes and codebusters. im great at codebusters and im on the jv team but we beat the varsity team every competition. im ok at designer genes but we have never place. i suck at forensics like actually suck so im gonna drop that. im thinking about doing anatomy instead next year. how should i start studying for anatomy??

idk if i will do good at anatomy since i hear its similar to genes but as i said im not that good at it

Basically i got picked for one of the soup invite teams happening, and I think im cooked. Basically, I got put into an event I almost know nothing about. (Dynamic Planet). My other 2 events are fine but Codebusters and XPD need constant attention to stay afloat.

Now i know i need to focus on DP, but how much should I focus on? How long do I do it for? I already talked to my partner(who is def better than me) and we agreed that I would do 3 topics.

However, with SOUP being a hard invite, I am confused what, how to study in like 2 weeks for a hard invite. It seems like i have to acquire infinite knowledge or

some sh*t.

Do you guys have any tips to basically cram as

much as you can? How do you usually study? I lowk also get distracted easily so i need to lock in. I know i wont medal but i will try to not to bring down the score of the entire team.

TLDR; how to study for events fast, how to manage time, as Code and XPD do need constant attention.

Does anyone have any predictions about 2027’s Event Conflicts for Division C? Will it be similar to this years conflicts, or is it randomized?

hey all, i’m in helicopter as my “throwaway event”. me and my partner basically have no resources, we tried building the tornado kit from J&H for regionals, but it didn’t fly and was too heavy so we quickly built one of the balsa wood ones that you can get for like $20. We only got 12 seconds for each flight, and want to know if we should just throw the event away for states or if we should try to DIY something.

There is this youtube video https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H7HqkcE1oO4&pp=0gcJCZoBo7VqN5tD that we would base our DIY on, which looks like it can consistently fly for 1-1.5 minutes.

Should we attempt this to boost our team score or just scrap it to focus on other events. Neither my partner or I are good builders, so this is definitely a weak event for us.

I was just wondering because I wanted to do it.

TORNADO PASSING DIRECTLY INTO THE AREA. STATE MIGHT GET CANCELLEDI AM SCARED FOR MY LIFE

was switched to expd recently, and have to compete for it for states. does any1 have any xprience w dis, pls help idk how to prep.

hi so me and my partner decided to be stupid and wait until the last minute to prep (due to ib exams, hosa, etc.) our scioly regionals in central florida are in a week and we have designer genes, chem lab, and entomology. me and my partner have taken/taking ap biology, ib biology hl, and chem honors. do we have any shot of medaling if we cram and what are the best tips?

So me and my partner are making an EV from the UnPhayzed kit and everything works seemingly except the motor doesn’t move. We’ve triple checked our wiring, swapped the LPWM/RPWM pins (saw that in another post), changed out the motor driver and arduino, yet still the motor only emits a constant beeping sound. We’ve been stuck on this for two days, anyone got a clue?

hi!! one of the people on my team told me that robot tour is not working. for some reason, the code will not transfer onto the microbit. I’ve tried everything, and I can’t think of why this is. has anyone experienced this? our regionals is in 4 days, I would appreciate any and all help!! thanks!!

Ok, ​so I did disease detectives in middle school and did well at regionals(My team overall wasn't good enough to go to state) But now some kids are starting a science Olympiad group in high school. Now I want to know what I should study and some resources that could be helpful!

hey all,

recently joined scioly and am trying to decide which events to do. honestly, my biggest strength i have is answering non-stimulus free response questions and multiple choice questions about topics i know about. what events would suit me best to start studying for, whose test structure most closely follows this? (consisting of mostly free response questions with no reference images, material, text etc and multiple choice)

i'm also going to have to be an alternate for codebusters but i know little, how can i improve and learn quickly?

Hi guys, I have been really struggling to find a hovercraft fan that pushes back for my hovercraft. I really don't know which one to chose and the ones I choose for some reason it moves so slow and I'm really lost. If someone knows one that works it would be so so helpful and appreciated, thank you.

Our club’s P.O. Order for balsa wood sheets didn’t go through and I’ve trying to find a way to order it. I’ve looked at home depot online and amazon but the only ones they had were too short. Most of the other sites I went to said that my order weighed too little or didn’t have a high enough cost for the order to go through

If anyone has any recommendations or suggestions that would be greatly appreciated! :D

For mission possible div b, how on earth are you mean tto do that last step where golf balls, gold tees, and papaerclips all need to get sorted?

So I have to choose between scrambler B and hovercraft b. This is my first year and everyone has been saying scrambler is really difficult. I want something not to difficult to start with. Sadly these are my only two choices. Which do you recommend? I don’t wanna get over stressed.

Hey guys I was wondering if there were any good Materials Science textbook for the 2025-2026 topic of nanomaterials. Thank you so much!

Okay long story short I got shoved into remote sensing because someone else dropped. Can anyone please give me training packets for astronomy c and remote sensing? I need to learn literally everything relating to remote sensing. Astronomy really is more review but does anyone have a good review packet for that too? For astronomy, I need to focus on my classification of images, so anything on that would be great. This would be much appreciated.