WEST VIRGINIA

Regional Site:  
West Virginia Regional Science Bowl
National Energy Technology Laboratory
3610 Collins Ferry Rd

Morgantown, WV, 26507

Create New Account for 2012: Account Creation Form
  (Note: Each year you must create a new account.)

Register your Team for your Regional Event: Regional Registration Form

Website: http://www.netl.doe.gov/education/scibowl/wvindex.html

Area: Entire State of West Virginia 

Team Registration and Approval Guidelines: The West Virginia Regional Science Bowl selects its participating teams on the basis of state-established educational districts (called RESAs in West Virginia).  There are 8 such RESAs covering specific groups of counties, with every county represented by one RESA.  The WVSB Coordinators are ultimately responsible for selecting and inviting participating teams, and strive to preserve fairness of opportunity and geographically diverse representation.  The WVSB Coordinators have historically used the following process to guide team selection: 1) Interested teams contact their RESA coordinator; 2a) If two or fewer teams are interested from a given RESA, those teams receive an automatic invitation to participate in the WVSB Regional; 2b) If more than two teams are interested from a given RESA, the teams compete in a local (RESA level) tournament to rank the teams.  The top two teams receive an invitation to participate, and the third place winner is recorded for possible selection as an alternate participant.; 2c) The school with the prior year winning team of the WVSB is awarded an automatic invitation to participate in the current year WVSB.  If one of the top two teams from a RESA competition received an automatic bid by virtue of a first place finish at the WVSB in the prior year, the third place team from that RESA receives an automatic bid; 3) To fill the field up to the 18 allotted teams, the third place winners from RESA tournaments are selected by WVSB officials in a random drawing; and 4) In all cases, invitations to participate in the WVSB will come directly from the WVSB Coordinators.