Events

This year's events are broken into the following categories

KNOWLEDGE BASED

Anatomy & Physiology – knowledge of nervous system, sense organs, and endocrine system. (Study Page here)

Codebusters – Knowledge exercise breaking codes using cryptanalysis procedures with several known ciphers. (Study Page Here)

Crave the Wave – knowledge of waves and wave motion. (Study Page Here)

Disease Detectives – Knowledge of disease, disability, and injury. (Study Page Here)

Dynamic Planet – Knowledge of Earth’s Fresh Waters. (Study Page Here)

Green Generation – knowledge of ecology and human interaction on the environment. (Study Page Here)

Meteorology – Knowledge of world climate and climate change. (Study Page Here)

Ornithology – Knowledge of North American Birds (Study Page Here)

Road Scholar – Knowledge exercise using maps (Study Page Here)

Rocks and Minerals – Knowledge exercise identifying rocks and minerals and their characteristics (Study Page Here)

Solar System – Knowledge of our solar system and the characteristics of them versus extrasolar systems (Study Page here)

LAB BASED

Bio Lab process – Laboratory exercise collecting data using equipment and calculating into relevant information. (Study Page here)

Crime Busters – Exercise collecting evidence and making an analytical decision on who committed a crime. (Study Page here)

Experimental Design – Laboratory exercise design, conduct, and report the findings of an experiment. (Study Page here)

Write it do it – exercise looking at a constructed contraption, one teammate writes how they would construct it, second teammate attempt to build it using first teammates instructions. (Study Page here)

ENGINEERING BASED

Bridge Building – Engineering exercise building a bridge that can hold certain amounts of weight. (Video here)

Electric Wright Stuff – Engineering Exercise designing a plane with electric motor that can stay aloft the longest. (Video here)

Food Science – Hybrid knowledge and Hydrometer build event regarding food chemistry. (Video Here)

Mission Impossible – Engineering Exercise constructing a Rube Goldberg device (Video here)

Mousetrap Vehicle – Engineering Exercise creating a moving vehicle with a mousetrap physics engine. (Video here)

Ping Pong Parachute – Engineering Exercise shooting a rocket with a ping pong ball tip and keeping it aloft as long as possible with a parachute. (Video here)

Sound of Music – Hybrid Engineering exercise creating a device that can make a tune and taking a test of musical notes / octaves (Video here)

Storm the Castle – Engineering exercise designing a catapult or trebuchet that can throw rocks a certain amount of distance. Study Page Here