Regional Information and Locations

Regionals will take place in January and February of each year and will be hosted at various locations across the state.  For a full map regional-county assignments, can be seen at the bottom of this page.  See below for directions to prepare for the regional competition.

Information on this page includes the rules for team progression from regional to state, locations of the regionals, and details about each regional, including schedules, events, and forms.

If you are interested in becoming a regional director for the Florida Science Olympiad, contact Aaron Johnson.

Invitational Sites

A LIST OF NATIONALLY APPROVED INVITATIONALS CAN BE FOUND AT https://www.soinc.org/play/invitationals

NOTE: Teams MUST be registered (and paid) with Florida Science Olympiad to participate in Invitationals.

Format Satellite

Date: November 4 -11, 2023

Cost: $85 per team, Title 1 Schools can register for free

Registration closes October 27, 2023

Invitational website link is: https://scilympiad.com/rickards 

Rickards SO email: director@rsoi.org

Bulls Science Olympiad at the University of South Florida is proud to announce its 2nd annual invitational! We will be hosting 100 Division B and 100 Division C teams. More details will be available soon

Please only submit this form once per school (not per team). Once submitted, the person who filled out the form will receive an email that their response was collected. We will contact head coaches soon after about if their teams are in the tournament or their waitlist status. We will be guaranteeing registration for the first 20 Florida schools to register by 6 PM EST September 17th in each division.

Details on method of payment and registration through Scilympiad will be released soon.

Register here: https://forms.gle/v7un4W7DWqoTrYwz5

Olympia High School 
4301 S Apopka Vineland Rd,
Orlando, FL 32835

Registration FORM

Director: Sam Davis 

Regional Sites

University of Miami
1320 S Dixie Highway
Miami, FL  33146

Regional Director: Anurag Aka
Date:  Feb. 17, 2024

SCHEDULE- TBD (Released mid-September)

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: DECEMBER 31, 2023
*NO REFUNDS AFTER DECEMBER 31, 2023

Hillsborough Community College
10451 Nancy Watkins Drive, Tampa, FL 

Regional Director:  Andrew Magrath
Date:  February 10th, 2023

Please note that some of events will not be run and/or will be adapted for virtual at this regional- see schedule for details. 

SCHEDULE- TBD (Released mid-September)

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: DECEMBER 31, 2023
*NO REFUNDS AFTER DECEMBER 31, 2023

Buchholz High School

5510 NW 27th Avenue

Gainesville, Fl 32606

Olympia High School 
4301 S Apopka Vineland Rd, Orlando, FL 32835

Regional Director: Sam Davis 
Date:  Feb. 10, 2024

SCHEDULE- TBD (Released mid-September)

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: DECEMBER 31, 2023
*NO REFUNDS AFTER DECEMBER 31, 2023

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University 
1 Aerospace Blvd
Daytona Beach, FL  32114

Regional Directors: Dr. William MacKunis and James Clements
Date: February 24, 2024

SCHEDULE- TBD (Released mid-September)

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: DECEMBER 31, 2023
*NO REFUNDS AFTER DECEMBER 31, 2023

Florida Atlantic University
777 Glades Road
Boca Raton, FL  33431

Regional Director:  Dr. Tim Theisen
Date:  Feb. 24, 2024

REGIONAL WEBSITE INFORMATION

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: DECEMBER 31, 2023
*NO REFUNDS AFTER DECEMBER 31, 2023

Directions for All Teams

Top teams in each region are invited to the state competition with no additional fee.

 

The regional director will send you a REGIONAL team number that you will use to prepare your team and schedule the students for each competition.  The regional director will contact you about the details of preparation for the regional tournament.


How Teams Progress from Regional To State

  1. If there are more teams per division than the number of teams to be invited to state, the regionals will act as a qualifier for the state and only the top teams will be invited, up to a total of 42 teams, from across the state, in each division. 
  2. There is a limit of FIVE teams from a school that may progress to the state competition.  
  3. Each region will be able to send at least three teams from each division to the state tournament. The exact number is determined by the proportion of teams that register to a particular regional tournament in comparison to the total number of teams in the state that register.
  4. If a region has more slots than teams that showed, the remaining slots will be placed into a pool for distribution to other regions in the state based on percentage membership and this will be conducted by the state director.
  5. Invited teams must confirm expected participation in the state competition within 2-weeks of their invitation. Slots for teams who do not confirm within 2-weeks may be distributed to other teams, based on the discretion of the state director.
  6. If there is a rounding issue as a result of calculations that results in a left over slot, the state director will assign this to a team at his/her discretion.

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