2024 Events
Air Trajectory: Teams will design, construct, and calibrate a single device capable of launching projectiles onto a target and collect data regarding device parameters and performance.
Anatomy and Physiology Understanding and applying knowledge of the human Nervous System, Sensory Organs, and Endocrine System.
Can't Judge a Powder students will test and characterize one pure substance and then, based only on data they collect, answer a series of questions about that substance.
Codebusters Analyze and decode encrypted messages for historical and modern advance ciphers.
Crime Busters Solve a crime by analyzing evidence and uses chemistry knowledge of powder analysis.
Disease Detectives Use investigative skills in the scientific study of disease, injury, health, and disability in populations of people. Uses immunology and epidemiology.
Dynamic Planet Uses process skills to complete tasks related to Earth’s fresh waters.
Ecology participants will answer questions involving content knowledge and process skills in the area of ecology and adaptations in featured North American biomes.
Experimental Design Design, Conduct, and analyze the data collected from the experiment.
Fast Facts teams will fill in a grid of terms that begin with a given letter to match given science categories.
Flight teams will construct, collect data on test flights, analyze and optimize a free flight rubber-powered aircraft to achieve maximum time aloft.
Forestry participants will be assessed on their general forestry knowledge and the trees found in the United States that are on the 2024 Official Science Olympiad National Tree List.
Fossils teams identify and classify fossils and demonstrate their knowledge of ancient life. Tasks will be related to interpretation of past environments and ecosystems, adaptations, evolutionary relationships, and the use of fossils in dating and correlating rock units.
Meteorology Demonstrate understanding of factors that influence world climate and climate change through interpretation of climatologic data, graphs, charts, and images.
Microbe Mission teams will answer questions, solve problems and analyze data pertaining to microbes.
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.
Reach for the Stars participants will demonstrate an understanding of the formation and early-stage evolution of stars and their observation across the electromagnetic spectrum.
Road Scholar Students answer interpretive questions that may use state maps, topographic maps, a road atlas, and satellite/aerial images.
Roller Coaster teams design, build, and test a Roller Coaster track to guide a ball/sphere that uses gravitational potential energy as its sole means of propulsion to travel as close as possible to a Target Time.
Tower teams will design and build a Tower (Structure) meeting requirements specified in these rules to achieve the highest structural efficiency.
Wheeled Vehicle teams must design, build, and test one Vehicle that uses a non-metallic, elastic material as its sole means of propulsion to travel a distance as quickly and accurately as possible.
Wind Power teams construct a blade assembly device prior to the tournament that is designed to capture wind power and complete a written test on the principles of alternative energy.
Write it, Do it One student writes a description of an object and how to build it, and a second student will attempt to construct the object from the directions
Air Trajectory: Teams will design, construct, and calibrate a single device capable of launching projectiles onto a target and collect data regarding device parameters and performance.
Anatomy and Physiology Understanding and applying knowledge of the human Nervous System, Sensory Organs, and Endocrine System.
Can't Judge a Powder students will test and characterize one pure substance and then, based only on data they collect, answer a series of questions about that substance.
Codebusters Analyze and decode encrypted messages for historical and modern advance ciphers.
Crime Busters Solve a crime by analyzing evidence and uses chemistry knowledge of powder analysis.
Disease Detectives Use investigative skills in the scientific study of disease, injury, health, and disability in populations of people. Uses immunology and epidemiology.
Dynamic Planet Uses process skills to complete tasks related to Earth’s fresh waters.
Ecology participants will answer questions involving content knowledge and process skills in the area of ecology and adaptations in featured North American biomes.
Experimental Design Design, Conduct, and analyze the data collected from the experiment.
Fast Facts teams will fill in a grid of terms that begin with a given letter to match given science categories.
Flight teams will construct, collect data on test flights, analyze and optimize a free flight rubber-powered aircraft to achieve maximum time aloft.
Forestry participants will be assessed on their general forestry knowledge and the trees found in the United States that are on the 2024 Official Science Olympiad National Tree List.
Fossils teams identify and classify fossils and demonstrate their knowledge of ancient life. Tasks will be related to interpretation of past environments and ecosystems, adaptations, evolutionary relationships, and the use of fossils in dating and correlating rock units.
Meteorology Demonstrate understanding of factors that influence world climate and climate change through interpretation of climatologic data, graphs, charts, and images.
Microbe Mission teams will answer questions, solve problems and analyze data pertaining to microbes.
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.
Reach for the Stars participants will demonstrate an understanding of the formation and early-stage evolution of stars and their observation across the electromagnetic spectrum.
Road Scholar Students answer interpretive questions that may use state maps, topographic maps, a road atlas, and satellite/aerial images.
Roller Coaster teams design, build, and test a Roller Coaster track to guide a ball/sphere that uses gravitational potential energy as its sole means of propulsion to travel as close as possible to a Target Time.
Tower teams will design and build a Tower (Structure) meeting requirements specified in these rules to achieve the highest structural efficiency.
Wheeled Vehicle teams must design, build, and test one Vehicle that uses a non-metallic, elastic material as its sole means of propulsion to travel a distance as quickly and accurately as possible.
Wind Power teams construct a blade assembly device prior to the tournament that is designed to capture wind power and complete a written test on the principles of alternative energy.
Write it, Do it One student writes a description of an object and how to build it, and a second student will attempt to construct the object from the directions