Coding
A place to store data that can change.
What is a variable in programming?
A numerical label that is assigned to devices so they can connect and communicate on a network.
What is an IP Address?
The first step in a forensic investigation is: collecting evidence, securing the crime scene, interviewing witnesses or making an arrest...
The basic unit of life: atom, cell, molecule, organism.
What is the cell?
Participants conduct research on a career, and use this knowledge to prepare a letter of introduction and a resume. Semifinalists participate in a mock job interview.
What is Career Prep?
A set of instructions to solve a problem.
What is an algorithm?
A company that provides individuals and businesses access to the Internet and other related devices.
What is an Internet Service Provider?
Of the following which is NOT a common type of physical evidence found at a crime scene: fingerprints, DNA, witness statements, shoe prints.
What is witness statements?
The main source of energy for photosynthesis.
What is sunlight.
Participants create a portfolio of 4 digital photographs addressing the annual theme. Semifinalists participate in a timed challenge at the state conference.
What is digital Photography?
A programming structure used to repeat actions multiple times.
What is a Loop?
A set of rules that govern the transfer of web content between computers.
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
Term used for evidence that can be linked back to a single source: circumstantial, individual, class, or associative.
What is individual evidence?
Newton's third law of motion?
For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
Participants write, shoot, and edit a 60-second video on site during the conference after being given a line of dialogue and 3 props.
What is ON Demand Video?
Repeats the code until a condition is no longer true.
What is a "while" loop?
What is a "repeat until" loop?
The reference or address to a resource on the Internet.
Universal Resource Locator (URL)
A bloodstain pattern analysis can tell us about: time of death, type of weapon used, movement of victim, or all of the above.
What is all of the above.
A basic model used for testing a design concept.
What is a prototype?
For this event you create a printable graphic to be used for a social media promotion, a wearable graphic (like for a T-shirt or hat) and digital signage on a slide presentation.
What is Promotional Marketing?
Runs code when the "if" condition is false.
What is the "else" statement in an "if" condition.
What are cookies?
The Ridge Pattern Method is most commonly used for: DNA matching, shoe print matching or fingerprint analysis?
What is fingerprint analysis.
What is the atomic number or an element?
What is the number of protons in the nucleus of an atom.
Participants in this event build a balsa wood structure to specific criteria and constraints to address an annual challenge.
What is Structures?