<p>I've been looking into starting a science Olympiad team at my school. I've read online about it but I was wondering if someone could give me advice as to how much your team practices, what you do at practices (small groups?), etc. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!</p>
<p>Ar you thinking about a general science olympiad tem or a specific subject(physics, chem ,bio)?</p>
<p>You should probably a join science competition, prehaps at a local college for your team to participate in. In your practices, you can spend some sessions preparing for the contest (some contests around my area requires a model to be built beforehand), or you can do some practice questions together.</p>
<p>2 hours a week should be enough, although it depends on how devoted you and the members are to the club</p>
<p>Well I was a little confused about that too. It will be either general or physics. </p>
<p>How many team members do you need? </p>
<p>I tried to don’t another team in my area but science Olympiad isn’t really a big thing here and I couldnt find one within an hours drive.</p>
<p>*to join. (I’m on my phone lol)</p>
<p>At my school its approx 10-15 people but we kinda divided ourselves into 2 groups (gr8/9’s and gr11/12’s)</p>
<p>I’d say that if you have at least 5 devoted members (ie they come to the meeting and stuff) that should be enough to get you started</p>
<p>You should focus on one thing but before you start make sure to get participation by people.</p>
<p>I have at least five people for sure, I’ll probably have around ten devoted members. I guess it sounds like starting with just physics is the best idea?</p>
<p>Our school just started a SciOly team with 15 people this year. We have meetings like twice a week where we review, build stuff and eat a ton of junk food 
Since there are alot of concepts and subjects, 2 people cover each subject or experiment and each person has at least 3-4 events, including one building event.</p>
<p>I hope that helped.</p>