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Life, Personal, & Social Science
A is for Anatomy (Digestive/Muscular)
Teams will rotate through a set of stations where they will view models, slides, and images to identify organs. This test will focus on the structure and function of the muscular and digestive system.
Don’t Bug Me
Participants will distinguish insects from non-insects, and identify various body parts, characteristics, habitats, ecological significance, life cycles, and major orders of insects.
PHYSICAL SCIENCE & CHEMISTRY
Elements, Compounds, and Mixtures
Each participant will classify materials into one of the three possible categories.
Mystery Liquids
Teams will identify mystery liquids.
Plastics Detectives
​In this lab event, teams will be responsible for developing a classification and identification key for six samples of plastic. Teams will then take a test on the six most commonly used plastics in the country.
​Sink or Float
​Students will demonstrate their ability to determine which objects will sink and which will float.
EARTH & SPACE SCIENCE
Fossil Find
This event will have participants acting as amateur paleontologists to construct an environmental grid based on fossil examples.
Weather or Not
​Teams will be tested on their knowledge of meteorological terms, techniques, and events.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
Aerodynamics
Teams will be tasked with constructing a paper airplane to be flown at least five meters to land on a predetermined target.
Clay Boats
​Each team will build a boat from clay, launch it and fill it with the greatest number of plastic gram cubes before sinking.
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.
INQUIRY & NATURE OF SCIENCE
Code Busters
In this event, teams will analyze and decode encrypted messages using a variety of ciphers.
Grasp a Graph
The objective is to develop the skills of collecting and organizing information using pictographs, bar, line and pie graphs to solve problems.
Map Reading
Participants will be tasked with answering two-part questions using various kinds of maps.
Metric Mastery
Teams will be tested on their ability to first estimate and then later take measurements of different objects using SI units.
Pentathlon
In this relay-style event, teams of 4-5 will participate in five physical skills interspersed with science questions.
Science Jeopardy
Based upon the television game show, teams will pick and answer questions of various difficulties within different set categories.
Deep Blue Sea
Teams will be tested on their knowledge of oceanography. Topics tested include ocean flora and fauna, exploration equipment, and physical features and phenomena.
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.
Microbe Mission
Teams will design, build, and test a Rube Goldberg®- like Device that completes required Start and Final tasks through a series of specific actions.
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.
Ecology
In this event, teams will answer questions relating to the ecology and adaptations of North America, focusing on deserts and grasslands.
Ecology
In this event, teams will answer questions relating to the ecology and adaptations of North America, focusing on deserts and grasslands.
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
Air trajectory
In this event, teams will design and construct a device that can launch projectiles at a target
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.
Wind Power
In this event, teams build and test a blade assembly device that can capture and use wind power. Teams will also complete a written test about alternative energy.
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.
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.
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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.
Forensics
In this lab event, teams will solve a mock crime scene scenario by analyzing data and performing tests on provided evidence.
Entomology
Teams will classify insects and answer questions about the effects of various insect species on the economy and human health.
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.
Ecology
In this event, teams will answer questions relating to the ecology and adaptations of North America, focusing on deserts and grasslands.
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.
Microbe Mission
Teams will be tested on their knowledge of and ability to solve problems and interpret data pertaining to microbes.
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.
It's About Time
Teams will answer questions related to time and construct a non-electrical device, such as a pendulum, water/sand glass or spring, capable of measuring time intervals of 10-300 seconds.
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
Bunee Drop
Teams will design an elastic cord to drop a mass as close as possible to, but without touching, a landing surface.
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.
Wind Power
In this event, teams will need to build a blade assembly device designed to capture and use wind power and then complete a test on the principles of alternative energy.
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.
Experimental Design
In this lab event, 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.