NEW JERSEY SCIENCE LEAGUE

Welcome to the New Jersey Science League home page

These pages are designed to provide information about the League, a brief history of the League,

registration for the League competitions, a brief summary of the rules of the League, awards,

summary of scores for the 2009 season, and information on contacting the Director of the League.

HISTORY OF THE LEAGUE Updated currently working

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Thanks Bill Spears

The #1 students in Bio II, Chem II, and Phy II have

been marked in Green on the spreadsheets.

You are Here. Home Page	Biology I Team & Students 5-30-09 updated
Topics of Study	Biology II Team & Students updated 5-30-2009
Scholarship and Awards	Chem I Team & Students updated 5-30-2009
Participitation and Rules of League	Chem II Team Scores updated 5-30-09
On line Registration form	Phy I Team & Students 5-10-09
Registered and Host Schools	Phy II Team & Students updated 5-30-09
Host Schools	Physics C Team and Students updated 5-30-09
Monthly News Letter	Earth Science Team & Students updated 5-30-09
Science League email njscil@enter.net	Science League Formulas
NJ Science Teachers Association à	njsta.org
Registration form for copying and faxing.	http://www.ev-co.com/njscil/online_registration_form.htm

Email address: njscil@enter.net

The New Jersey Science League is a competitive science organization operating within the State of New Jersey.

The Science League had its beginning in 1962 by Dr. Mal Sturchio, a professor of chemistry at

Fairleigh Dickinson University. Even though the beginning of the League was for chemistry students only,

it finally grew to its present size offering competitive science exams in chemistry, physics, biology, and earth science.

Registration for the New Jersey Science League is now open to all public and private schools in the State.

Registration will remain open until November 16, 2007. At that time registration will be closed to allow time

for the development of local areas of participitation.

The Science League is unique in both the State and our Nation. Having been started in 1962 by

Dr. Mal Sturchio as a chemistry league, the League now offers competitions in biology, chemistry, physics,

and earth science for all beginning students. There are also competitions at the second year level for chemistry,

biology, and physics. The topics for this year are enclosed with this letter.

The competitions are on two levels. One level is for the students. Students within any one testing

area are ranked with each other based upon their scores on 3 of the 4 exams given. Any student

completing 3 of the 4 exams receives a certificate from the Science League. The top ten percent (10%) of the

students receiving a certificate also receive a plaque. Last year the League awarded approximately 240 student plaques.

The plaques are presented to the students in conjunction with your school’s awards program at the end of the school year.

The next level of competition is with teams. The students make up teams from the various schools.

Each school only needs two members for each team, but as many as four may compete for each subject area.

Eight teams are possible. Schools may sign up for one to eight teams. Starting with the January competition, the

teams in each subject area are ranked according to the sum of the top two student scores within each team. Team scores are cumulative from January through April. Competition within each testing area is extremely keen. By the end of the season

there can be as little as one question separating first place from second place. For each competition the results are posted

on the web at www.enter.net/~njscil

. The final team score for the season will be the sum of all four exams. Schools are

ranked from #1 down to the last school. The top 10 schools (not 10%) are awarded plaques. An exception may be

Physics II and Physics C. If there are less than 50 teams, in these two areas, then only the top

3 schools will receive plaques.

Last year the NJSL offered a scholarship to the first place students in Biology II, Chemistry II, and

Physics II. This scholarship was created by the teachers in the League agreeing to not receive the mailing for January,

February, and March. The savings is passed onto the students as a scholarship. The scholarship will again be

awarded this year to the first place students in those three competitions.

In order to be part of the New Jersey Science League you need to fill out the registration form that is attached.

Local areas are developed based upon the schools within a geographical area. Every effort is made to keep a bus