Massachusetts
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| General Information | |
| Total teams | 90 ( 23.29% 2021 to 2022)
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| Division B Champion | Jonas Clarke Middle School |
| Division C Champion | Acton-Boxborough Regional High School |
| State Tournament Location | B division: Assumption College, Worcester
C division: Framingham State College |
| Website | masciolympiad |
Massachusetts is a state participating in Science Olympiad in the Northeast United States. The Science Olympiad program in the state is known as Massachusetts State Science Olympiad and the organization has existed since at least 2001. The state is somewhat competitive, having around 100 teams in both divisions per year. Multiple invitationals have been run throughout the state's history, although no regionals take place in the state, with all teams automatically advancing to the state tournament, where one team will typically advance to the national tournament.
Historically, the MIT Invitational and Harvard Invitational have been the main invitationals hosted in the state, both of which have attracted teams throughout the nation to the Cambridge area. Other invitationals hosted in the state include the Lexington Invitational started in the 2021 season, the new UMASO Invitational in the 2023 season, and the defunct Coolidge Invitational and Oak Invitational.
The state tournament has typically been won by A.W. Coolidge Middle School in Division B, with the school claiming the championship over 25 times since 1993. Before the 2000s, Coolidge Middle School would often place in the top 10 at Nationals, although in recent years it has not placed as high. In Division C, Acton-Boxborough Regional High School is the typical champion in recent years, although Newton North High School and Lexington High School were also frequent champions before the 2010s. Acton-Boxborough has done well at the national tournament, often placing near the top 10.
History
Past State Champions
Massachusetts has historically been controlled by A.W. Coolidge Middle School in Division B. The only team to have defeated Coolidge at state from 1993 - 2018 is Ephraim Curtis Middle School in 2005. However, starting in 2019 William Diamond Middle School has been the Division B champion. In Division C, Acton-Boxborough Regional High School has won every year since 2010 except for 2017, when Newton South High School edged them. The early years of Division C saw Acton-Boxborough, Concord-Carlisle High School, Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, and Lexington High School all winning multiple times.
- 1 Due to a disqualification in Hovercraft for Acton-Boxborough unveiled a week before the 2017 National Competition, Newton South was the victor of Massachusetts 2017, but due to logistical issues, Newton South was unable to attend Nationals and Acton-Boxborough represented Massachusetts at the National Tournament for the year and achieved 13th.
Competitions
Invitationals
- MIT Invitational (Division C) - January 23erd, 2021 Online, hosted by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Harvard-Brown Invitationals Tournament - January 31st, 2021 (Division C), January 31st, 2021 (Division B) Online, hosted by Harvard University and Brown University
- Lexington Invitational (Division B) - April 17th, 2021 Online, hosted by Lexington High School
State Competition
Division B - March 14th, 2020 at Assumption College
Division C - March 21st, 2020 at Framingham State University
State Tournament Results
Division B
Division C
Teams
Division B
- Advanced Math and Science Academy, Marlborough
- Boston Latin School, Boston
- Chenery Middle School, Belmont
- Chocksett Middle School, Sterling
- Concord Middle School, Concord
- Coolidge Middle School, Reading
- Dudley Middle School, Dudley
- English School, Everett
- Ephraim Curtis Middle School, Sudbury
- Galvin Middle School, Wakefield
- Innovation Academy, Chelmsford
- John Glenn Middle School, Bedford
- Jonas Clarke Middle School, Lexington
- Kennedy-Longfellow School, Cambridge
- Kuss Middle School, Fall River
- Marblehead Community Charter Public School, Marblehead
- North Reading Middle School, North Reading
- Oak Middle School, Shrewsbury
- O'Donnell Middle School, Stoughton
- Pioneer Charter School of Science, Everett
- Roxbury Preparatory School, Roxbury
- Wayland Middle School, Wayland
- West Somerville Neighborhood School, Somerville
- William Diamond Middle School, Lexington
Division C
- Acton-Boxborough Regional High School
- Algonquin Regional High School
- Amherst Regional High School
- Auburn High School
- Bedford High School
- Belmont High School
- Boston Latin School
- Boston University Academy
- Braintree High School
- Bridgewater-Raynham Regional High School
- Brookline High School
- Cambridge Rindge and Latin School
- Cambridge School of Weston
- Chelmsford High School
- Commonwealth School
- Concord-Carlisle High School
- Dedham High School
- Deerfield Academy
- Foxborough High School
- Franklin High School
- Hampden Charter School of Science
- Lexington High School
- Lincoln-Sudbury High School
- Littleton High School
- Lowell Public High School
- Masconomet Regional High School
- Medfield High School
- Medway High School
- Mystic Valley Regional Charter School
- Needham High School
- Newton North High School
- Newton South High School
- North Quincy High School
- Oliver Ames High School
- Phillips Academy Andover
- Reading Memorial High School
- Somerset High School
- Stoughton High School
- Wakefield Memorial High School
- Watertown High School
- Wayland High School
- Wellesley High School
- Westborough High School
- Westford Academy
- Weston High School
- Westwood High School
- Winchester High School
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