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Science Olympiad is an American team competition in which students compete in 'events' pertaining to various scientific disciplines, including earth science, biology, chemistry, physics, and engineering.

Over 7,300 middle school and high school teams from 50 U.S. states compete each year, but only 49 states host competitions, with the exception being Vermont.

U.S. territories do not compete.

There are multiple levels of competition: invitational, regional, state, and national.

Some states or private groups offer 'invitational' tournaments as practice for regional and state competitions.

Teams which excel at the regional competitions advance to the state level, and then to the national level.

Winners later receive several kinds of awards from medals to trophies and plaques.

The program for Elementary-age students is less common and consistent.

Sport (UK) or sports (US) are all usually forms of competitive physical activity or games which, through casual or organized participation, aim to use, maintain or improve physical ability and skills while providing enjoyment to participants, and in some cases, entertainment for spectators.

Usually the contest or game is between two sides, each attempting to exceed the other.

Some sports allow a tie game; others provide tie-breaking methods, to ensure one winner and one loser.

A number of such two-sided contests may be arranged in a tournament producing a champion.

Many sports leagues make an annual champion by arranging games in a regular sports season, followed in some cases by playoffs.

Hundreds of sports exist, from those between single contestants, through to those with hundreds of simultaneous participants, either in teams or competing as individuals.

In certain sports such as racing, many contestants may compete, each against each other, with one winner.

An organization or organisation is an entity comprising multiple people, such as an institution or an association, that has a collective goal and is linked to an external environment.

Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM, previously SMET) is a term that refers to the academic disciplines of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

The term is typically used when addressing education policy and curriculum choices in schools to improve competitiveness in science and technology development.

It has implications for workforce development, national security concerns and immigration policy.

Competition is, in general, a contest or rivalry between two or more entities, organisms, animals, individuals, economic groups or social groups, etc., for territory, a niche, for scarce resources, goods, for mates, for , recognition, for awards, for group or social status, or for leadership and profit.

It arises whenever at least two parties strive for a goal which cannot be shared, where one's gain is the other's loss (a zero-sum game).