Hawaii

**Hawaii**
Hawaii
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General Information
Member of SO since	2005
Total teams	47 ( 9.3% 2024 to 2025)
Division B Champion	Iolani School
Division C Champion	Iolani School
State Tournament Location	University of Hawaii at Manoa
Website	www.hsso.org

Hawai'i has been part of the National Science Olympiad since 2005. They made their first national tournament appearance in 2008 with Highlands Intermediate School in Division B and Farrington High School in Division C.

History

For the first few years, the champions from Hawaii varied from year to year and did not fare very well at nationals, but in recent years Iolani School has taken control of division C and has placed well in the finals. In 2019, Pearl City High School won Division C for the first time, taking over Iolani. Highlands Intermediate School, within recent years of their win streak at states, has started to progressively place better at nationals with 23rd, 12th, 13th, and 12th again at Wright State, Colorado State, Cornell, and Wichita State respectively.

In 2019, Hawaii was experimenting with running the full capacity of 23 events. They ran 23 events that year, however only 20 counted and the remaining 3 did not count toward the final score and were awarded as trials.

In 2021, due to COVID-19, Hawaii will be running MiniSO for Regionals and States. Only 17 events will be official for states, with two trials: Digital Structures and AgriBio. In addition, the State tournament will be open-internet.

Since 2022, Hawaii ran in person state tournaments at the University of Hawaii at Manoa running all 23 events.

Past State Champions

This is a record of the past state champions and runners-up, and their respective places at the national competition, if applicable. Scores at the state competition may be shown in parentheses.

Season	Division B					Division C
	Champion		Runner-Up		Third Place	Champion		Runner-Up		Third Place
	Team	Nats Place	Team	Nats Place	Team	Team	Nats Place	Team	Nats Place	Team
2008	Highlands Intermediate School	59th				Farrington High School	58th
2009	Highlands Intermediate School	57th	Waimea Canyon Middle School			Mililani High School	57th	Pearl City High School
2010	Maui Preparatory Academy (34)	59th	Waimea Canyon Middle School (36)		Kapolei Middle School (39)	Mililani High School (25)	53rd	Konawaena High School (43)		Kalani High School (55)
2011	Maui Preparatory Academy (30)	60th	Punahou Case Middle School (35)		Saint Anthony Junior High School (59)	Iolani School (33)	39th	Mililani High School (48)		Pearl City High School (73)
2012	Iolani School (44)	29th	Maui Preparatory Academy (59)		Highlands Intermediate School (68)	Iolani School (27)	42nd	Mililani High School (57)		Pearl City High School (96)
2013	Highlands Intermediate School (37)	51st	Iolani School (46)		West Hawaii Explorations Academy (99)	Mililani High School (33)	51st	Iolani School (51)		Hawaii Baptist Academy (86)
2014	Iolani School (42)	33rd	Highlands Intermediate School (56)		Maui Preparatory Academy (116)	Iolani School (45)	32nd	Mililani High School (73)		Hawaii Baptist Academy (118)
2015	Highlands Intermediate School (46)	29th	Iolani School (51)		Island School (104)	Iolani School (55)	25th	Mililani High School (82)		McKinley High School (90)
2016	Highlands Intermediate School (32)	29th	Iolani School (64)		Island School (113)	Iolani School (34)	19th	Pearl City High School (79)		Mililani High School (87)
2017	Highlands Intermediate School (24)	23rd	Iolani School (35)		Homeschool Science Club (73)	Iolani School (37)	29th	Pearl City High School (65)		Mililani High School (67)
2018	Highlands Intermediate School (29)	12th	Iolani School (39)		Mililani Middle School (107)	Iolani School (35)	29th	Pearl City High School (52)		Mililani High School (56)
2019	Highlands Intermediate School (31)	13th	Iolani School (35)		University Lab School (120)	Pearl City High School (45)	34th	Iolani School (50)		Mililani High School (68)
2020	Cancelled due to the 2019-20 Coronavirus outbreak
2021	Highlands Intermediate School (22)	15th	Iolani School (30)		Hilo Intermediate School (50)	Iolani School (19)	15th	Pearl City High School (39)		Waipahu High School (60)
2022	Iolani School (34)	24th	Highlands Intermediate School (36)		University Laboratory School (71)	Iolani School (43)	29th	Pearl City High School (47)		Mililani High School (90)
2023	Highlands Intermediate School (31)	12th	Iolani School (39)		Island School (80)	Iolani School (28)	27th	Pearl City High School (62)		Mililani High School (76)
2024	Highlands Intermediate School (31)	17th	Iolani School (45)		Punahou School (82)	Iolani School (25)	15th	Pearl City High School (51)		Mililani High School (81)
2025	Iolani School (43)	20th	Highlands Intermediate School (45)		Punahou School (56)	Iolani School (30)	12th	Pearl City High School (46)		Mililani High School (78)

Format

Hawaii runs a closed regional system, assigning teams to regionals geographically. Hawaii divides teams into a Championship League and Medalist League, with a portion of state tournament bids reserved for each League, and Medalist League teams competing in a reduced slate of events.

Competitions

Name	Type	Date	Division	Format
Highlands Invitational	Invitational	2025-10-04	B/C	Satellite SO
Iolani Invitational	Invitational	2025-11-29	B/C	In-person
Pearl City Invitational	Invitational	2025-01-04	B/C	In-person
Kauai Regional	Regional	2026-01-31	B/C	In-person
Hawaii Island Regional	Regional	2026-02-07	B/C	In-person
Maui College Regional	Regional	2026-02-07	B/C	In-person
Oahu Leeward Regional	Regional	2026-02-07	B/C	In-person
2025 Hawaii State Tournament	State		B/C	In-person

State Competition Results

Division B

2025 Championship League

/Medalist League

Division C

2025 Championship League

/Medalist League

Invitationals

Iolani Invitational - November 27, 2020
Pearl City Invitational - December 12, 2020
Mililani Invitational - January 22-23, 2021

Regionals

Hawaii is an archipelago consisting of eight major islands, four of which hold Science Olympiad regional tournaments. The four that hold tournaments are Oahu, Hawaii Island, Maui, and Kauai. Each island only hosts one tournament, with the exception of Oahu. Most of these tournaments are hosted at the island's respective University of Hawaii campus, with the exception of the Windward Regional which is hosted by James B. Castle High School. Teams on Oahu can choose which regional tournament on the island they'd like to attend and are not restricted by location.

COVID-19 has caused many teams to fall out and as a result, regionals will be held inter-island. Division C has 22 teams split into 11 teams in 2 regionals. Division B has 7 teams all in 1 regional. They will all be held from 2/1-2/6.