|Anatomy & Physiology||
ANATOMY & PHYSIOLOGY
Understand the anatomy and physiology of the human body systems: respiratory, digestive and immune.
Teams will demonstrate an understanding of stellar evolution and Type Ia supernova.
Teams will demonstrate chemistry laboratory skills and answer questions related to thermodynamics and gas laws.
Students will use investigative skills in the scientific study of disease, injury, health and disability in populations or groups of people with a focus on Food Borne Illness.
Students will demonstrate an understanding of the large-scale processes affecting the structure of Earth's crust (Tectonics).
Students will answer questions involving content knowledge and process skills in the area of ecology and adaptations in featured North American biomes.
Given a set of unknown objects, teams will design, conduct, analyze and write-up an experiment.
Teams provide answers (within an order of magnitude recorded in powers of ten) 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.
Students will identify polymers, solids, fibers, and other materials in a crime scenario.
This event will determine a team's ability to design and build an original computer game incorporating the theme provided to them by the supervisor using the program Scratch.
Prior to the tournament teams design, construct and test free flight rubber-powered helicopters to achieve maximum time aloft.
Will be held in a room with a flat ceiling that is 11' 6"
This event will test knowledge of amphibians and reptiles.
Competitors may construct a self-propelled air-levitated vehicle with up to two battery-powered motors that turn one propeller each to levitate and move the vehicle down a track. Competitors must also be tested on their knowledge of classic mechanics and related topics.
Teams will answer a series of questions or complete tasks involving the science processes of chemistry focused in the areas of materials science.
Teams will answer questions, solve problems and analyze data pertaining to microbes.
Prior to the competition, participants will design, build, test and document a Rube Goldberg-like device that completes a required Final Task through an optional series of simple machines.
Teams design, build and test a vehicle using one, or two, snap mousetraps as its sole means of propulsion that can push a plastic cup forward, reverse direction, and come to a stop behind the start point.
Teams must participate in an activity involving positioning mirrors to direct a laser beam towards a target. Teams must also be tested on their knowledge of geometric and physical optics.
Participants will use remote sensing imagery, data and computational process skills to complete tasks related to climate change processes in the Earth system.
|Rocks & Minerals||
ROCKS & MINERALS
Teams will demonstrate their knowledge of rocks and minerals.
Teams must construct an insulated device prior to the tournament that is designed to retain heat and complete a written test on thermodynamic concepts.
Prior to the competition, teams will design and build a Tower meeting requirements specified in the rules to achieve the highest structural efficiency.
|Write It Do It||
WRITE IT DO IT
A technical writing exercise where students write a description of a contraption and other students will attempt to recreate it using only the written description.
|No Trial Events||
No Trial Event