The purpose of the competition

The competition promotes scientific excellence among students and encourages creative thinking. It reveals to the participants new worlds of content and encourages study and deepening in the fields of science and space.

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Target population

Elementary students (grades 4-6) and middle school students (grades 7-9).

The elementary school competition and the mid-school competition are separate from each other.

Each group can have up to 20 students.

Several groups can be registered from the same school.

 

Registration

The registration is for groups of students in the target population only.

Before the final stage, schools are asked to send a list of the participating students.

The registration is done by a teacher at the school, with the consent of the school principal, using an online registration form.

It is hereby clarified that the school representative's delivery of a signed registration form constitutes confirmation and agreement to the terms and conditions of the competition regulations.

 

Stages and schedule

An online opening event for teachers and administrators wich describes the olympics.

An online opening event for students  to kick off the olympics.

Each stage has a designated main theme, as follows:

  Stage I - an online task.

  Stage II - a community project.

  Stage III - designing a model.

  Stage IV - building a model.

 

At any case where  a certain stage can not be carried out in the specified format, an alternative format will be defined, and appropriate detailed instructions will be distributed beforehand.

 

Contact

​During the competition period, the participants may reach out to the organizers by e-mail 

Israel - space@uingame.co.il

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​Documentation of the teams' work

​During the various stages of the competition, documentation activities may be carried out, such as a camera crew arriving at some of the schools. In no case, will these activities have any effect on the judging process. Participating schools are asked to sign permission to photograph and publish photos of the students on social networks and in the publications of the national space agency.

 

​Judgment

The scores for the various stages are determined according to a designated stage indicator. The teams are ranked according to their achievements. The identity of the winning groups in the final event is determined according to their achievements in the finals.
It is important to note that each stage is a separate scoring unit, and points are not accumulated between stages.

 

Announcement of the results

A few days after the end of each stage, the teams will receive a notification of who passed on the the next stage.

 

​Awards

The three teams that rank first win a prize which is revealed in the finals.

Certificates of participation are awarded to all participants in the finals.

 

National committee

The project steering committee consists of representatives of the National space olympics committee. The committee discusses and makes decisions as needed during the project's execution stages.

 

​General conditions

The national committee organizes and operates the competition. All decisions concerning the competition, including nomination submissions, selection of winners, prizes, and other decisions, are according to the regulations and the decision of the steering committee. The committee's decision is not appealable except if the operator has provided a special form for the school's request for re-examination.

 

The competition and each stage begins and ends on the dates set and published by the competition operator. The operator is entitled to change the rules of the competition, as stipulated in these regulations, while consulting the steering committee if necessary, provided that a notice is published in advance on the competition's website.​​