Events

AERODYNAMICS – Teams will build on-site paper airplanes using provided materials and test airplanes based on flight duration and distance to a target. 

• This is a build on site event where teams will build their planes in the morning and return later in the day to test their planes. 

• Teams should bring writing utensils, a ruler and a pair of scissors to the build. 

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A MATTER OF MATTER– Students will be asked questions or will conduct experiments at stations as they relate to properties of matter. 

• This is a lab event. 

• Students must bring safety goggles. 

• This is a binder event. 

• North Carolina Science Olympiad has a similar event here is a link to their page which has some great resources: Resource 

CHEW THE FAT – Teams will demonstrate knowledge of the human digestive system and proper nutrition. 

• This is a binder event. 

• Teams should bring writing utensils. 

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CRAVE THE WAVE – In this event, competitors must demonstrate knowledge and process skills needed to solve problems, and answer questions regarding all types of waves and wave motion. 

• This is a binder event. 

• Teams should bring writing utensils, protractor, ruler, and two calculators. 

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CRIME BUSTERS – A team of two students will be asked to solve a “crime” by identifying common household white powders, evaluating fingerprints, and completing paper chromatography.  

• This is a lab event 

• Students should bring writing utensils and a Powders Properties Chart 

• Safety equipment is vital. 

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DEEP BLUE SEA (Intracoastal Flora and Fauna) – Teams will be assessed on their knowledge of oceanography, the flora and fauna of the Intracoastal waterway, and aquatic animal life cycles. 

• This is a binder event. 

• Teams should bring writing utensils. 

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FAST FACTS (Space) – Teams will fill in a grid of terms that begin with a given letter to match given science categories. 

• Teams should bring writing utensils. 

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METRIC MASTERY – Teams will estimate and then measure properties of identical objects including mass, area, volume, distance, time, etc.  Teams will also perform metric unit conversions. 

• Teams should bring writing utensils, a calculator, metric ruler, and a protractor. 

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MISSION POSSIBLE – Teams will design, build, test, and bring a Rube Goldberg (like which incorporates up to twelve unique action transfers and uses five forms of energy in accomplishing a given task in sixty seconds) 

• This is a pre-built event.  

• This is an impound event.  

• Students must bring safety goggles, any materials needed to repair and run the device, and two copies of the action sequence list.  

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MYSTERY PACKAGING – At the beginning of the event, teams will be given a bag of building materials and instructions for designing a package that will protect a given material from a drop.  This is an ON-SITE BUILD EVENT. 

• This is a build on site event where all teams will build their device in the morning and return later in the day to test their device. 

• Teams should bring writing utensils, scissors, ruler, and safety goggles to the build. Safety goggles should also be worn during testing. 

PROGAMERS – Teams of students will use the latest Scratch programming language to recreate a game being shown to them on a screen in the room. 

• Teams should bring writing utensils and one page of notes. 

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• Scratch – Educators 

ROCK HOUND – Teams will demonstrate knowledge of types and properties of rocks and minerals as well as natural resources. 

• This event will run as stations. 

• This is a binder event. 

• Students must bring writing utensils.  

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TENNIS BALL CATAPULT – Students will build and calibrate their own free standing (not handheld) trajectory device that must be capable of lobing a tennis ball at a target placed 5-8 meters away.  Students must bring and wear impact resistant safety goggles. 

• This is a pre-built event.  Students must impound their device and any necessary materials 

• Starter lesson 

WEATHER PERMITTING – This event will test the team’s knowledge of conducting investigations and using appropriate technology to build an understanding of weather. 

• This is a binder event. 

• Teams should bring writing utensils. 

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WRITE IT, DO IT – One participant will write a description of an object and how to build it.  The other participant will attempt to construct the object from the description. 

Teams should bring writing utensils. 

• Resource – this is designed for middle and high school, but the info you need is here too! 

SPECIAL EVENT: PROFESSION JENSEN’S POTIONS – Teams will be asked questions and/or will conduct experiments at stations as they relate to lab safety equipment, chemical reactions, toxins, and antidotes.  Students must bring and wear safety goggles. 

• This is a binder event. 

• Teams should bring writing utensils. 

• This event will be run at the Central Florida competition. (Orlando area) 

SPECIAL EVENT: SHELBY JACOBS ROCKETRY – Prior to the competition, teams will build a rocket propelled by air pressure and water out of a 1-liter plastic beverage bottle.  The rocket that stays in the air for the longest time will win.  Students must bring and wear impact resistant safety goggles. 

• This is a prebuilt event. 

• This event will be run at the Florida’s First Coast competition. (Jacksonville area) 

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