<p>My school doesn't have an Olympiad team, so yeah.</p>
<p>But even if my school did get a team, would I have to join it in order to take the exam and compete?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Which olympiad? There’s a few</p>
<p>USABO and USNCO, specifically.</p>
<p>Yes. Form your own team or join one (maybe at another school if they allow it?). Forming a team isn’t that hard- just recruit some of your friends who are good at science, and get them to help you spread the word. Make sure you cover all aspects of science (I don’t actually do Science Olympiad, but it should follow the same process as Quizbowl). You can’t compete by yourself, per say.</p>
<p>For USABO you can certainly be a team with only one person, though. My D did this. Technically you have to register through your school, so you need a teacher to help you register and to proctor your tests. My D asked her Bio teacher and he was happy to do it. We paid the fee for the school – it wasn’t a ton ($50 or less, can’t remember exactly). If more kids had wanted to take the test, they then could have. She did this for two years.</p>
<p>^ science Olympiad is nothing like quizbowl…or USABO, or USNCO.
Cause science Olympiad deals with 23 events that range from building, lab work, and tests. You generally don’t need to be strong at science, just willing to learn. But you’ll need at a team of 15 for it.</p>
<p>But I guess he was asking about Biology Olympiad, and Chemistry Olympiad. Which I know nothing about, and is nothing like Science Olympiad.</p>
<p>I looked it up and browsed some other forums, and it turns out that there are people who competed in the USABO just by themselves. No team is necessary, and I’m assuming the same is true for the USNCO.</p>
<p>Sorry if I wasn’t clear, I didn’t mean the SciOlympiad. I just refer to the USABO/USNCO/USAPHO as Science Olympiads in general :P</p>
<p>As I said above, you can be a one person team for USABO, but unless it has changed in the last two years you still have to register through your school. I would have registered my D myself if we could have, but it required a teacher (I think because of the proctoring of the test). I would think most science teachers would be happy to help if asked if you pay the fee, though. I think her Bio teacher did have to ask the head of school before he did it, but there was no issue (they were happy to have a kid interested enough in science to pursue it).</p>
<p>At my local section, there was a homeschooled kid (for USNCO ), USNCO isn’t proctored by a teacher at your school, it’s generally at a university where all the local high schools go to in order to take the exam.</p>