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North Pole Science Olympiad team competes in national tournament

A team of middle school students from Discovery Peak Charter School in North Pole will compete in the Science Olympiad National Tournament at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln May 23-24.

The DPC Dinos team won first place in the 2025 ºÚÁÏÉçappScience Olympiad, which took place in March at the ºÚÁÏÉçapp. 

This will be the second time that Discovery Peak Charter School students have traveled to compete in the Science Olympiad National Tournament. The school’s team won first place in the 2023 ºÚÁÏÉçappScience Olympiad Division B and competed nationally at Wichita State University in Kansas.

In Lincoln, Nebraska, the Discovery Peak team will join 120 other Science Olympiad teams from around the U.S., as well as a Global Ambassador Team from Tokyo, Japan.

Science Olympiad teams compete at the state level annually, and the first-place winning teams from each state advance to compete with other state champions at the national level.

Two state-level Science Olympiad events are held in ºÚÁÏÉçappeach spring. 

Middle school teams compete in the ºÚÁÏÉçappScience Olympiad Division B. The competition is held at UAF and organized by the ºÚÁÏÉçappEstablished Program to Stimulate Competitive Research, the College of Engineering and Mines and the College of Natural Science and Mathematics. 

For the first time this year, high school teams competed in the ºÚÁÏÉçappScience Olympiad Division C at the University of ºÚÁÏÉçappAnchorage. That competition was organized by the UAA College of Engineering, with support from the College of Health and the College of Arts and Sciences.

of the 41st annual 2025 Science Olympiad National Tournament opening and awards ceremonies will be available on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln website. The opening ceremony will take place Friday, 6:30-8 p.m. (3:30-5 p.m. in Alaska). The awards ceremony will be held Saturday, 7:30-9:30 p.m. (4:30-6:30 p.m. in Alaska).

The ºÚÁÏÉçappScience Olympiad Division B is supported by individual donors and sponsors, including ConocoPhillips, ºÚÁÏÉçapp529, ºÚÁÏÉçappBlue Economy Center, ºÚÁÏÉçappIDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence, UAF professor Brian Rasley, the UAF College of Engineering and Mines, UAF Residence Life, and the Cook Inlet Regional Citizens Advisory Council.

Visit the ºÚÁÏÉçappScience Olympiad and Science Olympiad National Tournament to learn more.

ADDITIONAL CONTACTS: Tara Borland, taborland@alaska.edu; Courtney Breest, cfbreest@alaska.edu  

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