Regional Information and Locations

Regionals will take place in January and February of each year and will be hosted at various locations across the state.  For a full map regional-county assignments, can be seen at the bottom of this page.  See below for directions to prepare for the regional competition.

Information on this page includes the rules for team progression from regional to state, locations of the regionals, and details about each regional, including schedules, events, and forms.

If you are interested in becoming a regional director for the Florida Science Olympiad, contact Aaron Johnson.

Invitational Sites

A LIST OF NATIONALLY APPROVED INVITATIONALS CAN BE FOUND AT https://www.soinc.org/play/invitationals

NOTE: Teams MUST be registered (and paid) with Florida Science Olympiad to participate in Invitationals.

Format Satellite

Date: November 1st – 8th, 2025

Cost: $85 per team, Title 1 Schools can register for free

Registration closes October 30, 2025

Invitational website link is: https://scilympiad.com/rickards 

Rickards SO email: director@rsoi.org

Format: Virtual

Date: December 8th to 13th, 2025

Cost: $65

Register Now: Archimedean Invitational Registration 

Registration and Payment closes on Friday, December 5th, 2025

Payment: Pay Here!

Osceola High School 
420 S Thacker Ave 
Kissimmee, FL 34741

Cost: $80 for first team. $50 for each additional team.

Registration: Director: Andrew Hayes 

Bulls Science Olympiad at the University of South Florida is proud to announce its 4th annual invitational! We will be hosting  Division B and  Division C teams. More details will be available soon

Please only submit this form once per school (not per team). Once submitted, the person who filled out the form will receive an email that their response was collected. We will contact head coaches soon after about if their teams are in the tournament or their waitlist status. .

Details on method of payment and registration through Scilympiad will be released soon.

Register here: https://forms.gle/v7un4W7DWqoTrYwz5

All invitational updates are available at: https://www.bullso.org/invitational

We’re pleased to announce that the 1st annual Greenbrier Invitational will be held on January 10th, 2026 at Greenbrier High School.

Greenbrier High School’s location near Augusta, GA allows us the opportunity to expand access to invitationals in the area and provide a meeting point that is particularly accessible to teams in Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina, especially as the latter states are historically underserved in their local invitational scenes.

We aim to leverage our unique expertise to provide a high-quality experience for attendees, and we hope you’ll be able to join us for the inaugural tournament.

Araneesh Pratap

Past Director, Georgia C State Tournament

National Event Supervisor

Sharon Brazelton, Crystal McDowell, John Frey

Greenbrier High School Science Olympiad

Register Here

4301 South Apopka-Vineland Road
Orlando, Florida, 32835

Email: samuel.davis@ocps.net

Regional Sites

University of Miami
1320 S Dixie Highway
Miami, FL  33146

Regional Director: Sebastian Barales
Date:  Feb. 14, 2026

SCHEDULE- TBD (Released prior to tournament)

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: DECEMBER 31, 2025
*NO REFUNDS AFTER DECEMBER 31, 2025

Hillsborough Community College
10451 Nancy Watkins Drive, Tampa, FL 

Regional Director:  Andrew Magrath
Date:  March 1, 2025

Please note that some of events will not be run and/or will be adapted for virtual at this regional- see schedule for details. 

SCHEDULE- TBA 

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: DECEMBER 31, 2025
*NO REFUNDS AFTER DECEMBER 31, 2025

The Frazer School

4700 NW 89 Blvd

Gainesville, Fl 32606

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University 
1 Aerospace Blvd
Daytona Beach, FL  32114

Regional Directors: Dr.   James Clements or Amy Monahan
Date: February 26, 2026

SCHEDULE- TBA

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: DECEMBER 31, 2025
*NO REFUNDS AFTER DECEMBER 31, 2025

Florida Atlantic University
777 Glades Road
Boca Raton, FL  33431

Regional Director:  Dr. Tim Theisen
Date:  Feb. 22, 2025

REGIONAL WEBSITE INFORMATION

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: DECEMBER 31, 2025
*NO REFUNDS AFTER DECEMBER 31, 2025

University of South Florida

4202 E Fowler Ave, Tampa, FL 33620

State Director: Aaron Johnson 

Date: April 11th, 2026

Event Schedule: TBA

Directions for All Teams

Top teams in each region are invited to the state competition with no additional fee.

 

The regional director will send you a REGIONAL team number that you will use to prepare your team and schedule the students for each competition.  The regional director will contact you about the details of preparation for the regional tournament.


How Teams Progress from Regional To State

  1. If there are more teams per division than the number of teams to be invited to state, the regionals will act as a qualifier for the state and only the top teams will be invited, up to a total of 42 teams, from across the state, in each division. 
  2. There is a limit of FIVE teams from a school that may progress to the state competition.  
  3. Each region will be able to send at least three teams from each division to the state tournament. The exact number is determined by the proportion of teams that register to a particular regional tournament in comparison to the total number of teams in the state that register.
  4. If a region has more slots than teams that showed, the remaining slots will be placed into a pool for distribution to other regions in the state based on percentage membership and this will be conducted by the state director.
  5. Invited teams must confirm expected participation in the state competition within 2-weeks of their invitation. Slots for teams who do not confirm within 2-weeks may be distributed to other teams, based on the discretion of the state director.
  6. If there is a rounding issue as a result of calculations that results in a left over slot, the state director will assign this to a team at his/her discretion.

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