Science Olympiad Foundation (SOF) is an educational foundation established in 1998, based in New Delhi, India which promotes science, mathematics, general knowledge, introductory computer education and English language skills among school children in India and many other countries through various Olympiads.

SOF also generates a performance report for all participating students and schools, as well as awards teachers and principals whose pupils excelled in the exam.

Silver Zone Foundation, a similar 14-year-old Olympiad company, rakes in 50% of its revenues from book sales and the rest from exam registration fees (at Rs 120 per student).

He argues that the original science Olympiads — the first was in Maths held in Romania in 1959 — pursue nobler goals of intellectual inquiry.

Ashok Pandey, director at Ahlcon International School in Delhi, admits that private Olympiads need to be better regulated.