Science Olympiad, the most prominent competition Science Alliance participates in, has quite an intimidating history. Involving 7,400 teams from every state in the U.S., Science Olympiad is known to be both highly competitive and enjoyable for it’s participants at the regional, state, and national level.

The exact date for this year’s regional tournament is not yet known, but according to Science Alliance co-president Navodhya Samarakoon,  it will occur in the third week of January.

Although Science Alliance was fairly successful last year in this tournament, they’ve started out this year with a very specific goal when it comes to Science Olympiad: to prepare extensively, and in a more effective fashion.

“Last year it was more independent and people just individually prepared [for Science Olympiad]. We still made it to state, but this year we would like to be prepared earlier on,” Samarakoon said.

Samarakoon especially wants club members to have a better idea on what specific areas they should focus the most on, considering the events at Science Olympiad tend to be very broad and therefore very difficult to effectively study for (ex. “Green Generation”).

Club members receive many benefits from participating in this competition: “[students] take the knowledge they learned in the classroom…and apply it to a competition. It’s challenging,” Samarakoon said.

As for the tournament itself, Samarakoon speaks for the whole team when she says “I win. And have fun. But mostly win.”