Help- 2nd grade students

[sci1947]

Hello all,

My son is a 2nd grader and we are hoping to introduce him and his friends to scioly. Could you please answer these questions to get us started? Thanks for all your help!

1. Can 2nd grade students participate in the events listed here?
https://www.georgiascienceteacher.org/r ... 021-22.pdf

2. Does a team need to participate in all the events listed in that document or can they choose to do one?

3. How can we register a team if we want to participate?

4. How would we know about events/competitions? Locations, times etc..This is just to expose the kids to how this works so that they can appreciate what kinda prep is required as they grow up and hopefully continue this when they go to middle school.

[Godspeed]

Hello all,

My son is a 2nd grader and we are hoping to introduce him and his friends to scioly. Could you please answer these questions to get us started? Thanks for all your help!

1. Can 2nd grade students participate in the events listed here?
https://www.georgiascienceteacher.org/r ... 021-22.pdf

2. Does a team need to participate in all the events listed in that document or can they choose to do one?

3. How can we register a team if we want to participate?

4. How would we know about events/competitions? Locations, times etc..This is just to expose the kids to how this works so that they can appreciate what kinda prep is required as they grow up and hopefully continue this when they go to middle school.

Hello, unfortunately, Georgia ESO only allows students 3rd-6th grade to compete.
If possible, you should try and compete in all of the events, but you don't need to compete in all of them if you do not want to.
As to the rest of the questions, I'm not quite sure but a lot of the information might be found on this website: https://www.georgiascienceteacher.org/GAESO/

[knightmoves]

4. How would we know about events/competitions? Locations, times etc..This is just to expose the kids to how this works so that they can appreciate what kinda prep is required as they grow up and hopefully continue this when they go to middle school.

If your son is in second grade, he has a considerable time before he needs to understand the prep required to be on a middle school team. IMO, the best thing you can do for him right now is get him excited about cool sciencey things, rather than pushing him in to competition. There's no reason why you shouldn't start by picking a couple of the ESO events and doing them with your kids.

Build bridges or towers out of tape and popsicle sticks - but talk about why some designs worked and some didn't: don't just pat Johnny on the head for building the tallest tower. His tower wasn't better because "Johnny is good at building" - it was better because it was straight and symmetrical, and had triangular bracings to stop shear, or whatever.