Life & Social Science
Understand the anatomy and physiology of the human body systems: cardiovascular, lymphatic and excretory.
What is Anatomy and Physiology?
Teams will demonstrate an understanding of stellar evolution in normal and starburst galaxies.
What is Astronomy?
Teams will complete one or more tasks and answer a series of questions involving the science processes of chemistry focused in the ares of Physical Properties and Acids and Bases.
Chemistry Lab
Teams will design and build a Boomilever meeting requirements specified in the rules supporting a minimum load and to achieve the highest structural efficiency.
What is Boomilever?
This event will determine a participant's ability to design, conduct and report the findings of an experiment conducted entirely on site.
What is Experimental Design?
Students will use investigative skills in the scientific study of disease, injury, health and disability in populations or groups of people.
What is Disease Detectives?
Students will use process skills to complete tasks related to glaciers, glaciation and long-term climate change.
What is Dynamic Planet?
Students will use computer visualization and online resources to construct physical models of the CRISPR Cas9 protein that is being engineered to edit plant and animal cell genomes, and answer a series of questions about the chemistry of protein folding and the interaction of structure and function for model proteins.
What is Protein Modeling?
Participants design, build, test and document a Rube Goldberg-like device that completes a required action through an optional series of specific actions.
What is Mission Possible?
Teams provide answers to a series of Fermi Questions, which are science-related questions that seek fast, rough estimates of a quantity which is either difficult or impossible to measure directly.
What is Fermi Questions?
Participants will be assessed on their understanding and evaluation of aquatic environments.
What is Water Quality?
Teams demonstrate their knowledge of ancient life by completing selected tasks at a series of stations including but not limited to fossil identification, answering questions about classification, habitat, ecologic relationships, behaviors, environmental adaptations and the use of fossils to date and correlate rock units.
What is Fossils?
Given a scenario and some possible suspects, participants will perform a series of tests which along with other evidence or test results will be used to solve a crime.
Forensics
Participants must complete tasks and answer questions about electricity and magnetism.
What is Circuit Lab?
Participants will be assessed on their knowledge of amphibians and reptiles.
What is Herpetology?
Teams must construct and tune one device prior to the tournament based on a 12-tone equal tempered scale and complete a written test on the physics of sound.
What is Sounds of Music?
Teams design, build and test a vehicle using one or two snap mousetraps as its sole means of propulsion to push a paper cup forward, reverse direction, and stop as close as possible to a target point.
What is Mousetrap Vehicle?
Teams will cryptanalze (decode) encrypted messages using cryptanalysis techniques and show skill with advanced ciphers by encrypting or decrypting a message.
What is Codebusters?
Participants will solve problems and analyze data or diagrams using their knowledge of the basic principles of genetics, molecular genetics and biotechnology.
What is Designer Genes?
Teams will demonstrate understanding in the construction and use of topographic maps, geologic maps, and cross sections, and their use in forming interpretations regarding subsurface structures and geohazard risks.
What is GeoLogic Mapping?
Teams must construct an insulated device prior to the tournament that is designed to retain heat and complete a written test on thermodynamic concepts.
What is Thermodynamics?
Prior to the competition teams design, construct and test free flight rubber-powered monoplanes to achieve maximum time aloft.
What is Wright Stuff?
One student will write a description of an objet and how to build it, and then the other student will attempt to construct the object from the description.
What is Write It Do It?