Outreach – The University of Chicago Science Olympiad

7 Sep 20187 Sep 2018 uchicagoscio Outreach, Workshops

SO-ED Fall 2018 Announced!

We are excited to announce our upcoming FREE workshop event, the 2018 Fall Science Olympiad Enrichment Day (SO-ED) at the Gordon Center for Integrative Sciences at the University of Chicago on Saturday, October 13th. This workshop will mostly focus on NEW EVENTS for the 2018-2019 season! The purpose of this event is to provide resources for Science Olympiad teams in the Chicago area to succeed and host enrichment activities in a low-stress, non-competitive setting.

We are inviting your school to register students for spots in workshops on the following events and activities: (subject to change until registration opens)

Astronomy (Galaxies)
Anatomy (Excretory System)
Codebusters
Designer Genes
Fossils
Protein Modeling
Boomilever

This workshop will run from 9 am to 3 pm on October 13th with an hour-long break for lunch, which will be provided.

More information about registration and logistics to follow.

Volunteering at Nationals!

This past weekend, we traveled to Wright State University to volunteer at the National Tournament! We learned a lot about running events at this scale and helped out with Hovercraft, Helicopters, and Crimebusters. Congrats and well done to all the teams who competed!

4 Mar 201714 Jul 2017 uchicagoscio Outreach, Workshops

“Build It” Workshop!

We had a great time teaching Chicago Public School students how to build Wind Power, Helicopters, and Towers devices + Game On! Check out this cool video of a student testing out his wind turbine!

4 Feb 20174 Feb 2017 uchicagoscio Outreach

Volunteering @ CPS Invite

We had a great time volunteering at the CPS Invitational today at Westinghouse College Prep! It was nice to meet all of the coaches as well. We ran Astronomy C, Chem Lab C, Ecology C, Wright Stuff B, and Write It Do It B.

27 Jan 201730 Jan 2017 uchicagoscio Outreach, Workshops

First “Build It” Workshop Announced!

We are happy to announce that registration is now open for UChicago Science Olympiad’s first “Build It” workshop, to be held Saturday, March 4th from 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM at the University of Chicago campus.

The registration form is accessible here: https://goo.gl/forms/P16oyzjE2fTAbEQk1

We will be offering workshops for 4 events: Game On, Helicopters, Towers, and Wind Power. We will be providing materials for Helicopters, Towers, and Wind Power so that students can learn how to build their own device. Students can choose to take their device home or test it on our rigs. We are limited to 10 builds per event, but more than one student can work on each build. Participants in Game On will need to bring their own laptops and chargers.

Registration is free and lunch will be provided. This workshop has been generously sponsored by the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center at UChicago.

Registration will close on Friday, February 10th.

More details about the workshop schedule and logistics will follow.