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SFA WESO

Welcome to the home of the Washtenaw Elementary Science Olympiad (WESO) for St Francis of Assisi (SFA).

WESO 2026 will be held on Saturday, May 9th, at Pioneer High School.

Here’s the highlight video from WESO 2025:

Coach and Competitor Sign Up

Interested in coaching or competing in WESO? Fantastic!

Fill out the Google Forms linked below.

Competing

If your child (or children) are interested in competing at WESO 2026, we need you to fill out a Google form (one per child).

The forms are grade specific:

• Grade 2-3 form: Google form
• Grade 4-5 form: Google form

Coaching

If you are interested in coaching an event, please fill out this Google form

Key Information about WESO

Here are the basics about WESO:

• Coaches don’t need to be a subject matter expert to coach; many learn right alongside the participants.
• The event runs from 8am to ~8pm on Saturday, May 9th at Pioneer High School.
• Participants: Anyone in 2nd - 5th grade can compete.
• Each grade competes separately.
• The full list of events is on the WESO website here.
• Event coaches set the practise location and schedule, typically 1 hour/week at either SFA or an AADL location.

Committment

• Participant/student: 1 hour/week of practice, 0.5-2 hours of homework each week, and ~3 hours at Pioneer on May 9th.
• Coach: 1 hour/week of practice, 1-3 hours a week of prep, and ~10 hours at Pioneer on May 9th
• Coach: WESO provides all the materials you need to coach your event, but you need to arrange practise space.

Parent Information Session

Here is the recording of the parent information session from January 14 2026, and the slides used in that session.

If you have any questions, please reach out to Kristin or Dave.