Academic Teams 2025 - Updated Information In Process

Academic Teams General Contact - cresacademicteams@gmail.com

 

Academic teams offer a wonderful enrichment opportunity for CRES students. In addition to learning math, science, engineering, culture and other educational subjects, students have an opportunity to experience working together in groups toward common goals, and healthy competition. Plus, they get to have a lot of fun with their friends! 

Science Olympiad Division B Registration Opens

Monday 9/8 at 8AM

 

 

  

Click HERE To Register for Science Olympiad Division B

 

 

 

Please review the EVENTS AND 

Coordinate with any partners IN ADVANCE

Click Here for Event Information and Conflicts

 

 

 

Join Odyssey of the Mind at CRES

Curious, creative, and problem-solving kids wanted. Odyssey of the Mind (OM) is an international program where students work together to tackle fun, challenging problems in science, engineering, arts, and performance.

Parent Information Session: Thursday, September 18th, 6:30 PM
Location: CRES Cafeteria
Virtual Option: Microsoft Teams – Meeting ID: 218 994 128 774 1 | Passcode: Dw7hm7g6 or click to Join the meeting now

Volunteers needed! Parent coaches help make more teams possible. Contact Ishu Fenner at ishufenner@gmail.com or 240‑994‑2389 to get involved.

 

 

Academic Teams Info Session PDF

 

Odyssey of the Mind Info PDF

 

Science Olympiad

 

 

VIRGINIA SCIENCE OLYMPIAD

 

 

Science Olympiad is a national science tournament with multiple levels of competition: invitational, regional, state, and national. Students compete in events pertaining to various scientific disciplines, including earth science, biology, chemistry, physics, and engineering. Unlike many other science enrichment opportunities, Science Olympiad provides a team experience, allows for a great deal of creativity, and exposes students to a wide variety of topics. Colvin Run students may compete in EITHER Division A or Division B.  

 

Division A is open to students from grades 3-5 and is a great introduction to Science Olympiad. This is an opportunity for students to have fun and learn and does not advance past the regional level. 

 

Division A: Grades 3-5

 

 

 

Division B is open to students from grades 5-8 and is much more competitive and challenging. Students can advance beyond the regional level. Contact Academic Teams leads with Division B questions.  

 

 

Please see the Div B website for the events - https://www.virginiaso.org/events-bc

 

Please visit the Virginia Science Olympiad website for additional details about the program: https://www.virginiaso.org https://www.virginiaso.org/div-bc

 

 

  

Lego League

 

 

FIRST LEGO LEAGUE

 

 

This building and research-based program is designed to capture the inherent curiosity of children in grades K-3 and teach them valuable employment and life skills. The junior program provides an introduction to basic science and engineering concepts. The grade 4-6 robotics program applies these concepts.  

 

 

Note: this activity can be set up directly by parents without a school coordinator. Please visit the website below for information. 

Learn more: https://www.firstlegoleague.org/ https://va-dcfll.org/

 

Junior First Lego League: Grades K-3

First Lego League: Grades 4-6 

 

 

 

ODYSSEY OF THE MIND

 

 

This international educational program provides creative problem-solving opportunities for students from kindergarten through college. Team members apply their creativity to solve problems that range from building mechanical devices to presenting their own interpretation of literary classics. They then bring their solutions to competition on the local, state, and world level.

 

Learn more: https://vaodyssey.org/

 

Grades K-6

 

QUIZ BOWL

TEAM IS CURRENTLY FULL,

 

 

Quiz Bowl and U.S. Academic Bowl are academic competitions in which two teams compete head-to-head to answer questions from all areas of knowledge, including history, literature, science, fine arts, current events, popular culture, sports, and more. Bee tournaments are for individual players.

 
CRES is building up the first quizbowl team. The weekly training (via Zoom, waiver required) will include practice, scrimmage and study materials to advance students’ interest and knowledge in covered academic areas. The team will also represent CRES in various tournaments.
 
Learn more:  Quiz Bowl - www.naqt.com and U.S. Academic Bowl - www.usacademicbowl.com
 
Contact CRES Quiz Bowl coordinators, Jennifer - jbockman2020@gmail.com and Leena - leebakhtian@gmail.com with any questions.
 

Grades 4-6

 

 

MATH OLYMPIAD

 

Math Olympiad is a Parent Volunteer Sponsored Activity. MOEMS provides monthly problem-solving contests for elementary and middle school students. CRES grades 4 and 5 will compete in the Elementary division and grade 6 will compete in the Middle School division. It is organized by teams with 1-2 parent coaches working each group of students on a weekly basis on zoom or in person on a day and time that the coach will offer. After you register, you will be contacted by a volunteer coach who will offer you days and times for meetings.

There will be five monthly contests (5 questions each) administered each month from November through March. Awards will be announced and distributed after all five rounds. Tests are usually held monthly at 8am on a designated day at the school. 

PTO membership and a fee is required to join. Coaches are unpaid parent volunteers. Please consider serving as a coach or assistant coach. Contact Xiang Yin at xiangyin@gmail.com if you are interested in teaching.

Learn more about Math Olympiad at https://www.moems.org
 
 

Grades 4-6

MATH LEAGUE - NOT UPDATED


If your child would like to participate in online contests, you can now register your child individually.

Your child can enter a contest every month but students can only join one ES or MS contest per month. 


ES Level: 
October 21 - https://mathleague.org/escontestonline.php?event=10763
October 28 - https://mathleague.org/escontestonline.php?event=10769

Full ES Calendar:
https://mathleague.org/esevents.php

MS Level (quite challenging):
October 22 - https://mathleague.org/mscontestonline.php?event=10775
October 28 - https://mathleague.org/mscontestonline.php?event=10781

Full MS Calendar: https://mathleague.org/msevents.php

Questions? Please email estellajxi@gmail.com or cresacademicteams@gmail.com