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2022-2023 Science Olympiad Events

Life, Personal, and Social Science

• Anatomy and Physiology: Students learn about the respiratory, digestive, and immune system

• Bio Process Lab: Students answer questions dealing with biology

• Disease Detectives: Students use investigative skills to scientifically study diseases, injuries, and health in populations or groups of people

• Forestry: Teams are assessed on their knowledge of trees

• Green Generation: Participants solve problems and analyze data over aquatic, Air and Climate Change

Earth and Space Science

• Dynamic Planet: Teams compete in tasks related to Earth's fresh waters

• Meteorology: Teams display their understanding of meteorological principles that influence everyday weather

• Road Scholar: Participants answer interpretive questions using state highway maps, topographic maps, and other types of images

• Rocks and Minerals: Students answer questions regarding rocks and minerals

• Solar System: Participants answer questions over hability within and beyond the solar system

Physical Science and Chemistry

• Can't Judge a Powder: Students test and characterize a white powder

• Crave the Wave: Participants complete tasks and answer questions about waves and wave motion

• Crime Busters: Teams collect evidence and run a series of test to solve a crime

• Sounds of Music: Students design and play a musical instrument

• Storm the Castle: Students design, construct and test a catapult device

Technology and Engineering

• Bridges: Teams design and construct a balsa bridge meeting specified requirements to achieve the highest structural efficiency

• Flight: Teams design and construct a rubber powered aircraft to achieve maximum time aloft

• Roller Coaster: Teams design and build a roller coaster track for a ball or sphere

• Wheeled Vehicle: Teams design and construct a vehicle powered by a non-metallic that reaches a target as quickly as possible

Inquiry and Nature of Science

• Codebusters: Teams cryptanalyze and decode encrypted messages using cryptanalysis techniques for various ciphers

• Experimental Design: Tests the participant's ability to design, conduct, and report the findings of an experiment conducted on site

• Fast Facts: Teams answer questions in science related categories

• Write It, Do It: One participant describes and object, the other participant attempts to build the object using the written description