Virginia 2022

[smayya337]

And we're back with another year of Virginia Science Olympiad! VASO will be holding their annual kickoff meeting for B/C coaches and student leaders on the 11th. The call will be recorded and uploaded to their YouTube channel, so keep an eye out for that. Here's what we know right now:

Events
The VASO slate will be announced when the national manual comes out, which I guess means as early as today. I don't expect many major changes, though, since Game On went bye-bye at the national level (so VASO doesn't have to replace it at the state level). I'm not sure what else they'd replace. E: see the post below for the full event slate.

Invitationals
Fairfax will run their Division C tournament on January 8th. Lake Braddock's Division B tournament is on December 11th. More info will come out at some point for both of these.

Regionals
Regionals will follow a hybrid setup. There will be a day for written tests (currently planned for January 29th), which are taken virtually on Scilympiad, and a series of days for device testing. During the device testing days, teams just stop by for some time (~2 hours), test, and go. The current plan is to have two of these days (Feb 12th and 26th) in northern VA and one in Charlottesville on Feb 19th.

States
The state tournament is currently planned to be fully in-person on March 26th at UVA.

Other
Registration fees are discounted this year for all teams! Apparently VASO has a surplus, and Northrop Grumman also offered to help pay for some school with high free/reduced lunch populations. In addition, VASO wants everyone to like and follow/subscribe to their Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.

I can't believe this is my last time making this thread as a competitor :') Let's have an amazing season despite the circumstances!

[smayya337]

OK, here's the VA event slate for the season - changes from the national slate are italicized:

Division B
Anatomy and Physiology
Bio-Process Lab (States Only)
Bridge
Codebusters
Crave the Wave
Crime Busters
Disease Detectives
Dynamic Planet
Electric Wright Stuff (States Only)
Experiment & Data Analysis (VA-only substitute for Experimental Design)
Food Science
Green Generation
Meteorology (States Only)
Mission Possible
Mousetrap Vehicle
Ornithology
Ping-Pong Parachute
Road Scholar
Rocks and Minerals
Solar System
Sounds of Music
Storm the Castle
Write It, Do It (States Only)

Division C
Anatomy and Physiology
Astronomy
Bridge
Cell Biology (States Only)
Chemistry Lab
Codebusters
Detector Building
Disease Detectives
Dynamic Planet
Environmental Chemistry
Experiment & Data Analysis (VA-only substitute for Experimental Design)
Forensics
Gravity Vehicle
Green Generation
It's About Time
Ornithology
Ping-Pong Parachute
Remote Sensing (States Only)
Rocks and Minerals
Trajectory
WiFi Lab
Wright Stuff (States Only)
Write It, Do It (States Only)