🧑🔬 SITE FOR COACHES
2026 Div B & C Events are Out! Stay tuned for div a events!!
Life, Personal, & Social Science
Anatomy and Physiology
A test event focusing on sense organs, the nervous system, and the endocrine system in the human body.
Disease Detectives
A test event where teams will use investigative skills in the study of disease, injury, health, and disability in groups of people.
Entomology
Students will identify insects (including immature forms), answer questions about them, and use or build a dichotomous key. All insects featured are native to North America, north of Mexico.
EARTH & SPACE SCIENCE
Dynamic Planet (Hydrology)
Teams will use process skills in this event to complete tasks about freshwater on Earth.
Meteorology (Climate)
In this test event, teams will use quantitative analysis and processing skills to answer questions and interpret data, graphs, charts, or images related to world climate/climate change.
Participants will answer interpretive questions using various types of maps and images, such as state highway maps, USGS topographic maps, internet-based maps, road atlases, and satellite or aerial imagery.
teams identify and classify fossils while showing their understanding of ancient life, ecosystems, adaptations, evolution, and how fossils are used to date and correlate rock layers.
Reach for the Stars
Teams will be tested on their understanding of the late-stage evolution of stars, stellar remnants, and the electromagnetic spectrum.
PHYSICAL SCIENCE & CHEMISTRY
Potions and poisons
In this event, teams will be tested on their understanding of toxic household chemicals, plants, and creatures. Teams will also perform a chemistry lab task.
Crime Busters
A lab and test event in which teams will collect data, perform tests, and analyze evidence from a mock crime scene to solve a crime.
Metric Mastery
In this event, teams will estimate then measure the physical properties of identical objects. Teams will also perform unit conversions.
Optics
In this event, teams will participate in activity involving positioning mirrors to direct a light beam towards a target and complete a test on the principles of geometric and physical optics.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
Mission Possible
Teams design, build and test a Rube Goldberg-like device which completes a series of small, specific actions to accomplish a task.
Scrambler
In this event, teams design, build, and test a mechanical device that uses the energy of a falling object to move a vehicle. The vehicle must quickly transport an egg as close as possible to a barrier without breaking the egg.
Tower
In this event, teams design and build a tower that meets design requirements and achieves the highest structural efficiency.
Helicopter
In this engineering challenge event, teams will design, build, and test free-flight rubber-powered helicopters that maximize their time in the air.
INQUIRY & NATURE OF SCIENCE
Experimental Design
Teams will design, conduct, and report the results of a scientific experiment from start to finish in a limited time frame.
Write It Do It
A technical writing exercise where teams write a description of a contraption and other teams will attempt to recreate it using only the written description.
Code Busters
Teams will decrypt and analyze encoded messages using cryptanalysis techniques for both historical and modern ciphers.
Teams will estimate and measure properties of identical objects—such as mass, volume, density, and more, and perform metric unit conversions.
State Level Additional Events
Road Scholar
In this test event, teams will be assessed on their knowledge of state highway maps, topographical maps, road atlas or satellite/aerial images.
​
In this event, teams will be tested on their abilities to identify and classify fossils while completing tasks relating to interpreting past environments and ecosystems, evolutionary relationships, and using fossils to date rock units.
Fossils
Entomology
Teams will classify insects and answer questions about the effects of various insect species on the economy and human health
Life, Personal, & Social Science
Anatomy and Physiology
A test event focusing on sense organs, the nervous system, and the endocrine system in the human body.
Disease Detectives
A test event where teams will use investigative skills for the study of disease, injury, health, and disability in groups of people.
Entomology
Teams will classify insects and answer questions about the effects of various insect species on the economy and human health.
Ecology is a Science Olympiad event where participants answer questions about ecological concepts, adaptations, and process skills, focusing on North American biomes.
Teams will answer questions, solve problems, and analyze data related to microbes. Topics may include microbial classification, structure, function, roles in ecosystems, human health, and biotechnology. Participants will apply both content knowledge and data interpretation skills.
EARTH & SPACE SCIENCE
Astronomy
A test event where teams will be assessed on their understanding of variability of low and mid-mass stars.
Dynamic Planet (Hydrology)
In this test event, teams will use quantitative analysis and processing skills to answer questions and interpret data, graphs, charts, or images related to world climate/climate change.
Fossils
Teams will be tested on their abilities to identify and classify fossils while completing tasks relating to interpreting past environments and ecosystems, evolutionary relationships, and using fossils to date rock units.
Geologic Mapping
Teams will be tested on their understanding of the construction and use of topographic maps, geologic maps, and cross sections.
PHYSICAL SCIENCE & CHEMISTRY
Chem Lab
In this lab event, teams will complete tasks and answer questions focused on chemistry concepts like aqueous solutions and oxidation/reduction.
Forensics
In this lab event, teams will solve a mock crime scene scenario by analyzing data and performing tests on provided evidence.
​
​
Teams will design and build a blade assembly device before the tournament to capture wind power. During the competition, they will also complete a written test covering the principles of alternative energy, including wind energy concepts and efficiency.
Air Trajectory
In this engineering challenge event, teams design, build and calibrate a device that can launch projectiles to hit targets.
Optics
In this event, teams will participate in activity involving positioning mirrors to direct a light beam towards a target and complete a test on the principles of geometric and physical optics.
Materials Science
Teams will complete lab activities and answer a series of questions related to the materials science of ceramics with an emphasis on chemical and crystalline structure, and behavior.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
Electric vehicle
Teams will design, build, and test a vehicle powered by electrical energy that travels as quickly as possible and stops close to a Target Point.
Helicopter
In this engineering challenge event, teams will design, build, and test free-flight rubber-powered helicopters that maximize their time in the air.
Robot tour
In this engineering event, teams will design and build a robotic vehicle to navigate a track and reach a target in a set amount of time.
Tower
In this event, teams design and build a tower that meets design requirements and achieves the highest structural efficiency.
INQUIRY & NATURE OF SCIENCE
Codebusters
In this test event, teams will cryptanalyze and decode encrypted messages using a variety of modern and historical techniques and ciphers.
Participants will distinguish insects from non-insects, and identify various body parts, characteristics, habitats, ecological significance, life cycles, and major orders of insects.