Dexter Community Education

Elementary Science Olympiad is a competitive science team that offers a variety of team events designed to foster students’ interest in science. After registering for the program, students will have an opportunity to sign-up for an event via Sign-Up Genius and will then practice weekly with their event coach and teammates in a hands-on cooperative learning environment to gain expertise in their event. The program culminates in the Washtenaw Elementary Science Olympiad Tournament on Saturday May 9th, 2026 at Pioneer High School bringing together students from 40 area schools. 

Practice times are set by the individual volunteer event coaches and vary depending on the event. An individual event could practice before school, after school or on weeknight evenings. The practice times for each event will be emailed to all registered participants before the event sign-up date. 

Event sign-up will occur on Sunday January 25th, 2026 via SignUpGenius.com. Event practices will begin on or after the week of February 1st, 2026, at coach’s discretion, and will run approximately an hour per week until the Science Olympiad Tournament on Saturday May 9th, 2026 at Pioneer HS. 

This program relies on parent volunteer coaches and Dexter will only participate in events for which we have a volunteer coach. We are limited to 21 participants per grade with between 1 and 4 students in each event per grade. Coaching is a way to ensure your child can participate in his or her preferred event! Please reach out to chrissy.hladky@gmail.com if you are willing to coach.

To learn more, please review this presentation or reach out to chrissy.hladky@gmail.com