Stratford preparatory science olympiad

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Division B

Anatomy and Physiology

Participants will be assessed on their understanding of the anatomy and physiology for the human integumentary, muscular, and skeletal systems.

Disease Detectives

Participants use skills in scientific studies regarding disease, injury, health, and disability in populations.

Ecology

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

Entomology

Students will be asked to identify insects and selected immature insects by order and family, answer questions about insects, and use or construct a dichotomous key.

Microbe Mission

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

Dynamic Planet

Participants will demonstrate an understanding of the large-scale processes affecting the structure of Earth’s crust.

Meteorology

Participants will use scientific process skills involving qualitative and quantitative analyses to demonstrate an understanding of the factors that influence world climate and climate change through the interpretation of climatological data, graphs, charts and images,

Fossils

Teams identify and classify fossils and demonstrate their knowledge of ancient life through interpretation of past environments and ecosystems, adaptations, evolutionary relationships, and the use of fossils in dating and correlating rock units.

Reach for the Stars

Participants will demonstrate an understanding of late-stage stellar evolution and stellar remnants, and their observation across the electromagnetic spectrum.

Air Trajectory

Participants will design, construct, and calibrate a single device capable of launching projectiles onto a target and collect data regarding device parameters and performance.

Road Scholar

Participants will answer interpretive questions that may use one or more: state highway maps, USGS topographic maps, Internet-generated maps, a road atlas, or satellite/aerial images

Crime Busters

Given a scenario, a collection of evidence, and possible suspects, students will perform a series of tests that will be used to solve a crime.

Potions and Poisons

This event is about chemical properties and effects of specified toxic and therapeutic chemical substances, with a focus on household and environmental toxins or poisons.

Optics

Participants 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.

Wind Power

Participants 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.

Mission Possible

Participants design, build, test, and document a Rube Goldberg®- like Device that completes required Start and Final Actions through a series of specific actions.

Helicopter

Participants will construct, collect data on test flights, analyze and optimize a free flight rubber-powered helicopter to achieve maximum time aloft.

Scrambler

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

Tower

Participants will design and build a Tower (Structure) meeting requirements specified in these rules to achieve the highest structural efficiency.

Codebusters

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

Metric Mastery

Teams will estimate and measure properties of identical objects including mass, area, volume, density, force, distance, time, and temperature, and perform metric unit conversions.

Experimental Design

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

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 this description.

Division C

Anatomy and Physiology

Participants assessed on knowledge of anatomy and physiology of human integumentary, muscular, and skeletal systems

Disease Detectives

Participants use skills in scientific studies regarding disease, injury, health, and disability in populations.

Ecology

Participants answer questions about ecology and adaptations in North American biomes.

Entomology

Participants will identify insects by order and family and answer questions about insects.

Microbe Mission

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

Astronomy

Participants will demonstrate an understanding of Stellar Evolution: Star Formation & Exoplanet.

Dynamic Planet

Participants will demonstrate an understanding of the processes involving the cryosphere of the Earth including glaciers and other ice formations and processes.

Fossils

Participants identify and classify fossils and demonstrate their knowledge of ancient life.

Geologic Mapping

Participants will demonstrate understanding in the construction and use of topographic maps, geologic maps, and cross sections, and their use in forming interpretations regarding subsurface structures and past depositional environments on Earth and other planetary bodies.

Air Trajectory

Participants will design, construct, and calibrate a single device capable of launching projectiles onto a target and collect data regarding device parameters and performance.

Chemistry Lab

Participants will complete one or more tasks and answer a series of questions involving the science processes of chemistry focused in the areas of Periodicity and Equilibrium.

Forensics

In this event, 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.

Materials Science

In this event, participants will complete lab activities and answer a series of questions related to the materials science of ceramics with an emphasis on chemical and crystalline structure, and behavior.

Optics

Participants 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.

Wind Power

Participants 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.

Electric Vehicle

Participants will build and test a vehicle that can travel a given distance in the shortest amount of time while staying in a straight line.

Helicopter

Participants will construct, collect data on test flights, analyze and optimize a free flight rubber-powered helicopter to achieve maximum time aloft.

Robot Tour

Participants design, build, program and test one Robotic Vehicle to navigate a track to reach a target at a set amount of time as accurately and efficiently as possible.

Tower

Participants will design and build a Tower (Structure) meeting requirements specified in these rules to achieve the highest structural efficiency.

Bungee Drop

Participants will design one elastic cord to conduct two separate drops at a given height(s) and attempt to get a drop mass, placed in a bottle, as close as possible to, but without touching, a landing surface.

Codebusters

Participants will design one elastic cord to conduct two separate drops at a given height(s) and attempt to get a drop mass, placed in a bottle, as close as possible to, but without touching, a landing surface.

Experimental Design

Students will design an experiment that is simple in design and involves only one independent variable and one dependent variable. After this, multiple trials will be made and a report will be prepared within the event time period, which is about 50 minutes.

Write It Do It

One team member writes detailed instructions on how to build a specific object without using any diagrams or drawings, and the other team member must then try to construct that object solely based on the written description, testing their ability to communicate precise instructions and follow them accurately.