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SRC: HOW TO START A USABO CLUB

Team/Club Strategies

  1. Identify teacher and sponsor.

  2. Register for the USABO

  3. Recruit students via social media, posters and fliers.

  4. Recruitment advice from student Alexander Chan (Rowland High School):

    • First, a student would need some courage to be not intimidated by USABO. Trying out for the USABO (I believe) is very tough and a student is not obligated by anyone to make it through to the next round.

    • Second, there are more people who are interested in the Biology Olympiad in a student's school than he or she would think. I sent a post through my Facebook Wall and sent a post to the Science Olympiad team Group Page, the IB group page, and other Facebook group pages that might be interested in the Biology Olympiad.

    • Third, I found a teacher that was willing to sponsor and set a fixed cost to cover the expenses of registration for the participants and set the date of the competition.

    • Fourth, I sent an e-mail to all the Science Olympiad Club members at our school. (I asked the club president for permission to advertise Biology Olympiad with the name of Science Olympiad. I am the Science Olympiad club Secretary.)

    • Fifth, since our Science Olympiad team is very prominent among the Science Department in our school, I sent an email to all the Science teachers in our school asking them to mention the Biology Olympiad to their students.

    • Sixth, I designed a flier for Biology Olympiad and posted around 80 of them around my school, and in classrooms. Click here to see my flier.

  5. Acquaint them with the topic areas of the exam:

  6. Share Rebecca (Becky) Shi’s experience (First Place, 2012 International Biology Olympiad). Click here to read about Becky’s journey to the IBO.

    • Cell Biology
    • Plant Anatomy and Physiology
    • Animal Anatomy and Physiology
    • Ethology
    • Genetics and Evolution
    • Ecology
    • Biosystematics

  7. Visit the USABO site http://www.usabo-trc.org. The information will provide an overview of the program for students. This year, the Student

    Resource Center is being updated with information regarding what to study and some tools to use for study.

  8. Visit the International Biology Olympiad (IBO) site www.ibo-info.org to obtain an overview of the IBO. The USABO is structured similarly.

  9. The team should start to strategize and form a plan of study for the content to include resources, speakers, practice sessions, and lab time.

 

 

 

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