Hello Parents!
As our 2023-2024 Science Olympiad season is about to start, we are looking for parent volunteers to help coach events!
The first question of a new volunteer coach is, “What am I getting myself into?”
The are two types of coach: team coach and event coach.
The team coach is the contact person for the team and mainly keeps track of who the team members are and which of the twenty plus events are being covered by the team. The team coach also contacts the parents of interested students and works to find an event coach for each event. AMS Science Olympiad's team coach (also head coach) is Coach Ankit.
The event coaches (there should be many for a team) work with the students to prepare for the events. The Science Olympiad has over twenty events, so an event coach will only be coaching one or more events. Many times coaches will volunteer to handle those events in which they have the most interest or in which their own student is participating.
There are many things to consider when signing up to be a event coach. Please do consider this position and read through our various pages to understand a little bit more about coach an event.