Southeast Urban Pennsylvania Tournament

Southeast Urban Pennsylvania Tournament
General Information
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Location	Philadelphia High School for Girls
State	Pennsylvania
Member of SO Since	2014
Division B Champion	William M. Meredith School
Division C Champion	Julia R. Masterman School
Date	February 8th, 2025
Website	https://scilympiad.com/pa-seurban

The Southeast Urban Tournament of Pennsylvania (also known as the Philadelphia Urban Invitational Tournament) is contested solely by teams participating in the Urban Schools Initiative of Pennsylvania Science Olympiad. In 2025, 11 B teams from 9 schools and 16 C teams from 11 schools competed.

History

The Southeast Urban region began in 2014 as a means to get urban schools within the city of Philadelphia more involved with Science Olympiad. The first ever regional was held on April 5th, 2014, at the String Theory Charter School of Philadelphia Performing Arts, between five high schools and three middle schools. Since then, the program has steadily grown in size and scope. The 2016 regional was held on March 5th at St. Joseph's University.

In 2020, with the split of the Southeast region creating a Southeast North region held at St. Joseph's University, the Urban tournament's status was shifted to being an invitational tournament open to teams participating in the Urban Schools Initiative of Pennsylvania Science Olympiad.

In 2021, the Southeast Urban Invitational was held virtually by St. Joseph's University due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In 2022, the Southeast Urban Invitational began being hosted by the Philadelphia High School for Girls. The 2022 Southeast Urban Invitational was once again held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Both the 2023 and 2024 Southeast Urban Invitational have been held in person at the Philadelphia High School for Girls.

Teams from this Philadelphia Urban Initiative also regularly participate in Build It/Study It/Learn It Days, in which participants are assisted in the events by the University of Pennsylvania and Drexel University.

Results

This is a record of the past champions, runners up and third place.

Division B

Year	Champion	Runner-up	Third Place	Teams
2014
2015	Conwell Magnet Middle School	Philadelphia Performing Arts Charter School
2016	Philadelphia Performing Arts Charter School	Conwell Magnet Middle School	St. Katherine of Siena School
2017	Folk Arts-Cultural Treasures Charter School	Philadelphia Performing Arts Charter School	St. Katherine of Siena School
2018	Folk Arts-Cultural Treasures Charter School	Philadelphia Performing Arts Charter School	William M. Meredith School	8
2019	William M. Meredith School
2020	William M. Meredith School	George W. Nebinger Elementary School
2021	William M. Meredith School	Vare-Washington School
2022	Vare-Washington School	William M. Meredith School
2023	Vare-Washington School	William M. Meredith School	Nazareth Academy Grade School	7
2024	William M. Meredith School			10
2025	William M. Meredith School	Vare-Washington School	Julia R. Masterman School	11

Division C

Year	Division C Champion	Division C Runner-up	Division C Third Place	Teams
2014	Swenson Arts and Technology High School
2015	Swenson Arts and Technology High School	Parkway Center City High School
2016	Swenson Arts and Technology High School	Julia R. Masterman School	Parkway Center City High School
2017	Friends Select School	Kensington Creative and Performing Arts High School	Penn Upward Bound Math and Science
2018	Swenson Arts and Technology High School	G.W. Carver High School of Engineering and Science	Penn Upward Bound Math and Science	3
2019	Swenson Arts and Technology High School
2020	Julia R. Masterman School	Philadelphia High School for Girls
2021	Central High School (PA)	Germantown Friends School	Philadelphia High School for Girls	9
2022	Central High School (PA)	Julia R. Masterman School
2023	Central High School (PA)	Julia R. Masterman School	Philadelphia High School for Girls	12
2024	Central High School (PA)	Julia R. Masterman School	Academy at Palumbo	17
2025	Julia R. Masterman School	Central High School (PA)	Philadelphia High School for Girls	16

Teams

NOTE: This is a list of all teams that registered for the 2024 version of this tournament.

Division B

Benjamin B. Comegys Elementary School

Henry Houston Elementary

John F. McCloskey School

John Hancock Demonstration School

Julia R. Masterman School

Tilden Middle School

Vare-Washington Elementary School

Waldron Mercy Academy

Warren G. Harding Middle School

William M. Meredith School

Division C

Academy at Palumbo

Central High School (PA)

George Washington High School

G.W. Carver High School of Engineering and Science

Julia R. Masterman School

New Foundations Charter School

Northeast High School

Philadelphia High School for Girls

Roxborough High School

Saints John Neumann And Maria Goretti Catholic High School

Swenson Arts and Technology High School

St. Joseph's Preparatory School

Past Teams

Division B

Blaine Academy Plus School

Conwell Magnet Middle School

Folk Arts-Cultural Treasures Charter School

Friere Charter School

George W. Nebinger Elementary School

Kirkbride Elementary School

Nazareth Academy Grade School

Penn Alexander School

Penrose School

Philadelphia Performing Arts Charter School

Simon Gratz Prep Mastery Middle Charter School

St. Katherine of Siena School

Widener Partnership Charter School

William D. Kelley Elementary School

Division C

Archbishop Ryan High School

Boys Latin of Philadelphia Charter School

Franklin Learning Center

Friends Select School

Kensington Creative and Performing Arts High School

Parkway Center City High School

Penn Upward Bound Math and Science

External Links

Urban Schools Initiative of Pennsylvania Science Olympiad