<p>Hey, so I want to get my school involved with the various National Competitions that exist, like USAMO or Science Olympiad. The only one that my school participates in is the National Math Exam through our Mu Alpha Theta Club. I was just wondering what type of competitons are there for the various subjects? In addition to the National Math Exam, what other Math competitions are well known?</p>
<p>There is a Future Business Leaders of America - Phi Beta Lambda
aka FBLA, or PBL</p>
<p>Its obviously for students who want to go into business, and there are business skills days within each state, and then a national one. </p>
<p>My school doesnt have one because i only found out about it this year. Definitely would have started it if I had known about it before.</p>
<p>how big is your school and how motivated, would you say, are the students?</p>
<p>There's Physics Olympiad, Chem Olympiad, Biology Olympiad, Informatics Olympiad, etc. If you're into research there's Intel, Siemens, and the International Science Fair. For math there's always Mandelbrot, Math League, ARML (in some states), and so forth.</p>
<p>National Latin Exam
The national contests for Junior Classical League (forgot the official name)</p>
<p>Thanks for the information. I'd say there are about 2100 kids at my school, a little over a hundred in each class would be considered academically competitive. I don't know about the other classes, but I'd say a good ten students would be interested in trying Physics Olympiad and the entire AP Chemistry class would probably get into Chem competitions.</p>
<p>There's also the AMC's (American Mathematics Competition), which is pretty big.</p>
<p>ok. ur in a good spot. ur school is approx. 53 times bigger than my school and since you have about 100 motivated kids per class, than ur good. i hate that nothing can be done in my school. im just waitin out til college...</p>
<p>and doing stuff on my own. and when i become part of nhs ill try to get stuff done (im in student council right now and let me just say trhat NOTHING gets done).</p>
<p>im a spring with energy all stored up and im waiting for college to remove whatever is on top of me so i can move up at a pace faster than a snail's.</p>
<p>If you want to motivate people to take the tests, all you have to do is form an exclusive study group and give the best students in your class extremely complimentary invitations to it. I had ~48 people show up to Olympiad Club at my school and we only have 1300 kids.</p>
<p>Note that if I had just told people "Hey, you should come take the Physics/Chemistry/Biology/Math Olympiad" (as opposed to saying what an honor it was to be invited to study for the test) most of them would have been like -- eh, yeah, sure, maybe. Meaning the extremely complimentary invitations are a must.</p>
<p>And by the way, keep in mind these tests are rather expensive. The Physics Olympiad costs, what, $40 for two people? Basically you'd have to find a way to raise money for everyone, or expect them to pay it out of their pocket (which I doubt they'd do).</p>
<p>The whole thing's a lot easier if you just want to take the test yourself rather than getting a large part of the school involved with it.</p>