C Event Short Descriptions

Anatomy and Physiology

Understand the anatomy and physiology of the human body systems: respiratory, digestive and immune.

Astronomy

Teams will demonstrate an understanding of stellar evolution and Type II Supernova Events.

Chemistry Lab

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 thermodynamics.

Disease Detectives

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.

Dynamic Planet

Students will demonstrate an understanding of the large-scale processes affecting the structure of Earth's crust (Tectonics).

Ecology

Students will answer questions involving content knowledge and process skills in the area of ecology and adaptations in featured North American biomes.

Experimental Design

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

Fermi Questions

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.

Forensics

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.

Game On

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

Helicopters

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

Herpetology

This event will test knowledge of amphibians and reptiles.

Hovercraft

Participants will be tested on their knowledge of classic mechanics and related topics as well as their ability to construct a self-propelled air-levitated vehicle that moves down a track.

Materials Science

Participants will complete lab activities and answer a series of questions related to the materials science of polymers and plastics with an emphasis on chemical structure, reactivity and behavior.

Microbe Mission

Teams will answer questions, solve problems and analyze data pertaining to microbes.

Mission Possible

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.

Mousetrap Vehicle

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.

Optics

Teams must participate in an activity involving positioning mirrors to direct a laser beam towards a target and are tested on their knowledge of geometric and physical optics.

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.

Thermodynamics

Teams must construct an insulated device prior to the tournament that is designed to retain heat and complete a written test on thermodynamic concepts.

Towers

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

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.