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Rules for 2021

Science Olympiad 2021 National Tournament Rules Modifications

General Tournament Modifications

  • The 2021 Science Olympiad National Tournament will be conducted as a remote tournament following the general approach taken under the MiniSO Competition model. All teams and participants are expected to follow Science Olympiad’s Code of Conduct and act accordingly as if this were an in-person tournament. Coaches are asked to review the Code of Conduct and expectations for this tournament with their teams.
  • Unless otherwise indicated, participants are expected to compete through the Scilympiad online platform in a location separate from their partners, teammates, and coaches. It is the expectation of this tournament that outside of a few Build events partners will not be in the same location able to physically work together.
  • The Scilympiad platform was developed to accommodate the delivery of a remote Science Olympiad tournament in accordance with our values of integrity and excellence. It has the ability to record when participants are outside of the Scilympiad competition browser. Participants should only be out of the browser for select events and as permitted by the rules or permitted by the Event Supervisor as part of an event.
  • To avoid any Out of Browser Time being accrued during an event all participants in the event should:
    • make sure that their computers are fully charged or plugged in;
    • disable any and all pop-up notifications (i.e.; email notifications, alarms, calendar notifications, or automatic updates) that may be active or set on their device; and,
    • compete using a computer, laptop, or Chromebook.
  • To avoid any Out of Browser Time being accrued during an event all participants in the event should not:
    • have any other window, tab, application (i.e.; Netflix, Spotify, Pandora, Discord) open other than the Scilympiad competition browser;
    • open multiple tabs or browsers accessing the Scilympiad competition browser at the same time;
    • use electronic notes or resources for an event unless it explicitly states in the 2021 Rules, or in the following Specific Event Modifications, they are allowed; and,
    • compete using a tablet or phone.

Specific Event Modifications

Protein Modeling (Division C Only)

  • This event will consist of only a test delivered through Scilympiad; there will be no evaluation of a pre-built model for this event.
  • For the National Tournament, teams should be ready to answer questions about the cytidine deaminase protein and the BE4 expression on the addgene.org. Even though the prebuild portion of the event has been canceled, there will be questions on the exam about these materials.
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