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RULES for high school - - - DOWNLOAD using the above link
Study Resources at SCIOLY.org
The competition includes 23 different challenges each year. For now, just the 2019 Class B (middle school) challenges are posted:
ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY: Understand the anatomy of the human body systems: cardiovascular, lymphatic and excretory.
ASTRONOMY: Using modern data sets and H-R diagrams, participants must explain, predict and analyze stellar objects/trends.
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.
CHEMISTRY LAB: Participants must perform calculations and complete a detailed lab (including report) in a short amount of time. Often, this lab is a titration requiring basic mol and % calculations.
CIRCUIT LAB: Participants must complete tasks and answer questions about electricity and magnetism.
CODEBUSTERS: Given a code/cipher, participants must decode a message. Other iterations are possible as well
DESIGNER GENES: Participants will solve problems and analyze data or diagrams using their knowledge of the basic principles of genetics, molecular genetics, and biotechnology.
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.
EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN: This event will determine a participant's ability to design, conduct and report the findings of an experiment conducted 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.
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.
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.
HERPETOLOGY: Participants will be assessed on their knowledge of amphibians and reptiles.
MISSION POSSIBLE: Rube Goldberg style contest in which each team brings their own device that has been designed and built to perform a series of events that is published in the rules document.
MOUSETRAP CAR: Teams will construct a vehicle that uses a mouse trap as its sole means of propulsion. It must push a cup a specified distance, then reverse and travel in the opposite direction stopping as close as possible to the Target Point.
PROTEIN MODELING: Students will use computer visualization and online resources to construct physical models of the CRISPR Cas9 protein, that is being engineered to edit plant and animal cell genomes, and answer a series of questions about the chemistry of protein folding and the interaction of structure and function for model proteins.
SOUNDS OF MUSIC: Teams must construct and tune one device prior to the tournament based on a 12-tone equal tempered scale and complete a written test on the physics of sound.
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.
WATER QUALITY: Participants will be assessed on their understanding and evaluation of aquatic environments.
WRIGHT STUFF: : Prior to the tournament teams design, construct, and test a rubber band powered glider to achieve the maximum time aloft.
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.
...Of course, we do not have time to tackle every single component of the 2019 science olympiad in one class, but fortunately Physics underlies a large number of the categories.
Useful websites:
Alaska Science Olympiad
Fringe Science, from the TV show
Study Resources at SCIOLY.org
The competition includes 23 different challenges each year. For now, just the 2019 Class B (middle school) challenges are posted:
ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY: Understand the anatomy of the human body systems: cardiovascular, lymphatic and excretory.
ASTRONOMY: Using modern data sets and H-R diagrams, participants must explain, predict and analyze stellar objects/trends.
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.
CHEMISTRY LAB: Participants must perform calculations and complete a detailed lab (including report) in a short amount of time. Often, this lab is a titration requiring basic mol and % calculations.
CIRCUIT LAB: Participants must complete tasks and answer questions about electricity and magnetism.
CODEBUSTERS: Given a code/cipher, participants must decode a message. Other iterations are possible as well
DESIGNER GENES: Participants will solve problems and analyze data or diagrams using their knowledge of the basic principles of genetics, molecular genetics, and biotechnology.
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.
EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN: This event will determine a participant's ability to design, conduct and report the findings of an experiment conducted 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.
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.
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.
HERPETOLOGY: Participants will be assessed on their knowledge of amphibians and reptiles.
MISSION POSSIBLE: Rube Goldberg style contest in which each team brings their own device that has been designed and built to perform a series of events that is published in the rules document.
MOUSETRAP CAR: Teams will construct a vehicle that uses a mouse trap as its sole means of propulsion. It must push a cup a specified distance, then reverse and travel in the opposite direction stopping as close as possible to the Target Point.
PROTEIN MODELING: Students will use computer visualization and online resources to construct physical models of the CRISPR Cas9 protein, that is being engineered to edit plant and animal cell genomes, and answer a series of questions about the chemistry of protein folding and the interaction of structure and function for model proteins.
SOUNDS OF MUSIC: Teams must construct and tune one device prior to the tournament based on a 12-tone equal tempered scale and complete a written test on the physics of sound.
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.
WATER QUALITY: Participants will be assessed on their understanding and evaluation of aquatic environments.
WRIGHT STUFF: : Prior to the tournament teams design, construct, and test a rubber band powered glider to achieve the maximum time aloft.
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.
...Of course, we do not have time to tackle every single component of the 2019 science olympiad in one class, but fortunately Physics underlies a large number of the categories.
Useful websites:
Alaska Science Olympiad
Fringe Science, from the TV show
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