C Event Short Descriptions

Anatomy and Physiology

Participants will be assessed on their understanding of the anatomy and physiology for the human Respiratory, Digestive, and Immune systems.

Astronomy

Teams will demonstrate an understanding of Stellar Evolution & Variability.

Bridge

Teams will design and build a Bridge (Structure) meeting requirement specified in these rules to achieve the highest structural efficiency.

Cell Biology

This event integrates content knowledge and process skills in the areas of cell biology and cellular biochemistry.

Chem Lab

Teams will complete one or more tasks and answer a series of questions involving the science processes of chemistry focused in the areas of Oxidation/Reduction and Periodicity.

Codebusters

Teams will cryptanalyze and decode encrypted messages using cryptanalysis techniques for historical and modern advanced ciphers.

Detector Building

Teams will build a durable Mass/Force Sensing Device that will accurately measure and display both voltage and actual masses of different solid samples ranging from 20 to 1,000 grams.

Disease Detectives

Students 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 Earth’s fresh waters.

Environmental Chemistry

This event will focus on fresh water (e.g., residential, industrial or natural), the identified pages of The Clean Water Act (1972 & 1977), wastewater operator’s certification manual (Indiana March 2018 revision) and its applications, various testing of particular analytes using standardized curves (either interpreted or created), and stabilization ponds, & introduction to the National Pretreatment Program.

Experimental Design

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

Fermi Questions

Teams provide answers to a series of “Fermi Questions”; science related questions that seek fast, rough estimates of a quantity, which is either difficult or impossible to measure directly.

Flight

Prior to the tournament, teams will design, construct and test free flight rubber-powered aircraft to achieve maximum time aloft.

Forensics

Given a scenario and some possible suspects, students will perform a series of tests. These tests, along with other evidence or test results, will be used to solve a crime.

Forestry

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Green Generation

Students will demonstrate an understanding of general ecological principles, the history and consequences of human impact on our environment, solutions to reversing trends and sustainability concepts.

It's About Time

Teams will answer questions related to time and they may construct and bring one non-electrical device that triggers a single signal to occur three times at equally spaced time intervals.

Remote Sensing

Participants will use remote sensing imagery, data, and computational process skills to complete tasks related to climate change processes in the Earth system.

Rocks and Minerals

Teams will demonstrate their knowledge of rocks and minerals.

Scrambler

Teams design, build, and test a mechanical device, which uses the energy from a falling mass to transport an egg along a straight track as quickly as possible and stop as close to the center of a Terminal Barrier (TB) without breaking the egg.

Trajectory

Prior to the competition, teams will design, construct and calibrate a single device capable of launching projectiles onto a target and collect data regarding device parameters and performance.

Wifi Lab

Teams must construct an antenna device prior to the tournament that is designed to transmit a signal at 2.4GHz and complete a written test on the principles of electromagnetic wave propagation.

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 the description.