B Event Short Descriptions

Anatomy and Physiology

Understand the anatomy of the human body systems: cardiovascular, lymphatic and excretory.

Boomilever

Teams will design and build a Boomilever meeting requirements specified in the rules supporting a minimum load and to achieve the highest structural efficiency.

Circuit Lab

Participants must complete tasks and answer questions about electricity and magnetism.

Crime Busters

Given a scenario, a collection of evidence, and possible suspects, students will perform a series of tests that along with other evidence will be used to solve a crime.

Density Lab

Participants compete in activities and answer questions about mass, density, number density, area density, concentration, pressure and buoyancy.

Disease Detectives

Participants will use investigative skills in the scientific study of disease, injury, health and disability in populations or groups of people.

Dynamic Planet

Students will use process skills to complete tasks related to glaciers, glaciation and long-term climate change.

Elastic Launched Gliders

Prior to the tournament teams design, construct, and test elastic launched gliders to achieve the maximum time aloft.

Experimental Design

This event will determine a participant's ability to design, conduct and report the findings of an experiment conducted entirely on site.

Food Science

Students will answer questions about the chemistry of food and food grains and build a simple calorimeter to determine the energy content of a solid foodstuff.

Fossils

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.

Game On

This event will determine a team's ability to design and build an original computer game using the program Scratch incorporating the scientific theme provided to them by the supervisor.

Heredity

Participants will solve problems and analyze data or diagrams using their knowledge of the basic principles of genetics.

Machines

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Meteorology

This event emphasizes understanding of basic meteorological principles with emphasis on analysis and interpretation of meteorological data, graphs, charts and images.

Mission Possible

Participants design, build, test and document a Rube Goldberg-like device that completes a required action through an optional series of specific actions.

Mousetrap Vehicle

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.

Ornithology

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Ping-Pong Parachute

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Reach for the Stars

Students will demonstrate an understanding of the properties and evolution of stars especially star forming regions and supernova remnants and their observation with different portions of the electromagnetic spectrum.

Road Scholar

Participants will answer interpretive questions that may use one or more state highway maps, USGS topographic maps, Internet-generated maps, a road atlas or satellite/aerial images.

Water Quality

Participants will be assessed on their understanding and evaluation of aquatic environments.

Write It Do It

One student will write a description of an object and how to build it, and then the other student will attempt to construct the object from this description.