1. Oak Valley Middle School Head Coaches Mimi Padmabandu, Michelle Bright, Jackie Trischman

2. WHAT IS SCIENCE OLYMPIAD? Team: 23 events, usually 2 students per event Awards: 1-15 in each event Top 8 schools go to state Practices: 1 hour per week per event

3. EVENTS Event list is still under construction; will be finalized mid-late September Anatomy Balloon Launched Glider Disease Detective Ecology Food Chemistry Everyday Weather Metric Mastery Oceanography Road Scholar Rocks and Minerals Science Crime Busters Science Word The Solar System Tower Building Write It/Do It

4. ELIMINATED EVENTS Some 2007 events that have been eliminated are: Awesome Aquifer Balloon Race Don’t Bug Me Heredity Mission Possible Simple Machines Storm the Castle Wheeled Vehicle

5. PROPOSED NEW EVENTS (*events that have existed in the past and might have information on the net) *Amphibians/Reptiles *Bio-Process Lab Crave the Wave Magnify Your Strength *Mystery Architecture *Robots *Scrambler (Div. C last year) *Trajectory

6. COMPETITION DAY FEBRUARY 2, 2008 Breakfast/meeting Check in at Rancho Bernardo High School/Camp Compete Awards Ceremony

7. MISC. Fundraising: Dues donations Supplies/Equipment Practice Times/Locations, Schedule Team Names T-Shirt Design

8. RESOURCES National website: http://www.soinc.org/http://www.soinc.org/ Regional website: http://sandiegoso.org/index.html http://sandiegoso.org/index.html Oak Valley site (under construction): http://oakvalleyscience.50webs.org/ http://oakvalleyscience.50webs.org/ Old Oak Valley site: http://ovmsscioly.org/http://ovmsscioly.org/ Newsgroup: science-olympiad-coaches at Yahoo! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/science- olympiad-coaches/http://groups.yahoo.com/group/science- olympiad-coaches/

9. VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES Coaches Competition Day School: breakfast RB High: camp T-Shirt Design Party/Food Clearance: TB/Fingerprinting Karen Peterson: VolunteerOV@aol.com

10. EXPECTATIONS/POLICIES Teams/Scheduling All teams go to Regionals Attendance State Team: Only one team