Competitions

MHS juniors Sophia Chirayil and Shivani Shukla storm chasing with former Science Olympian Reed Timmer at the 2015 Northern NJ Junior Science and Humanities Symposium!

Here is a list of individual and team STEM competitions that take place during the school year.

Science Fairs and Research Symposia

Junior Science and Humanities Symposium (preliminary applications due November 13, 2015):

- Northern Jersey JSHS at Rutgers New Brunswick (first round)

Nationals Competition

Davidson Fellows

Google Science Fair

Intel Science Fair

ISEF (qualifying tournament is NJRSF or Mercer County Science Fair)

Science Competitions--Individuals:

USA Phyiscs Olympiad (USAPhO)

Registration needs to be done by November, exam administered in early January

USA Biology Olympiad (USABO)

Schools have to first sign up, and then students sign up individually online using the school’s site code. Registration needs to be done before winter break, local exam administered in February.

USA Chemistry Olympiad (USNCO)

Registration needs to be done by February, exam administered mid-March.

USA Math Olympiad (USAMO)

Dr. Fishman usually is good with signing up on time, but need to remind him to give signup forms earlier.

USA Computing Olympiad (USACO)

Entire competition is online, students can program using their favorite language of choice. This is probably the most widely accessible one if you know CS.

University of Toronto National Biology Competition

Canada’s national exam, signups due by March, exam in April. This competition is actually very advantageous for “international” students. They pick top 10s for Canada and rest of the world. Canada is 10/2500, ROTW is 10/750.

Merck State Science Day

Registration needs to be done by April, teams of five are needed for all the subjects in order to be eligible for a school ranking.

Chemagination @Princeton U

AMC

10 / 12 usually administered in early February

Brain Bee

Regional competition on Feb 7th 2015 hosted at Robert Wood Johnson, part of a larger international competition for high schoolers interested in Neuroscience. Register here or here.

Siemens Change the World

Siemens Competition in Math, Science, and Technology

Science Competitions--Teams:

Moody’s Math Challenge

Envirothon

Registration deadline is near March and takes place in May right before APs. Two teams of 5 allowed.

National Ocean Sciences Bowl

Lexus Eco Challenge

Rube Goldberg Machine Contest

Samsung Solve For Tomorrow

Toshiba/NSTA ExploraVision Science Competition

GAMA/Build a Plane Challenge