CLASSES 课 程
COMPETITION SCHEDULES 比赛时间
Same color classes will compete at the same time during competition day.
比赛当天，相同颜色的课程将在同个时间段进行比赛。
If you take more than 1 class in the same color group, you can only compete in 1 of them.
如果你在同一颜色组里报名多过 1 个以上课程，你只能参加其中1 个课程的比赛。
BUILD EVENTS (white) are self-scheduled so they won't conflict with any other events.
搭建课程（白）的比赛时间是自选的，所以不会与其他课程的比赛时间相冲。
Friday classes (Newtonian Physics, Computer Science ACSL) are not competing in Science Olympiad.
周五的课程不参与科学奥利比亚竞赛。
CLASS EXPECTATION 纪律
Please be punctual for classes. 请准时上课。
Please mark your attendance. Inform the coaches if you missed the roll call.
请务必要点名。如果你错过了点名，请通知教练。
If you can't attend, please submit the Absence Form beforehand. We will inform your coaches. 如果你无法上课，请提前提交缺席表（左上角选项Absence)，我们会通知教练。
Valid Reasons: sickness, medical appointment, camp, competition (e.g. swim meet), vacation, performance, tests/assessments, family emergency. 有效原因：生病、复诊、露营、比赛、渡假、表演、考试、家庭紧急情况。
Invalid Reasons: woke up late, moody, birthday party, meeting friends, clash with external lessons. 无效原因：赖床、情绪低落、生日或朋友聚会、其他校外课程。
Cell Phone & Devices: Refer below
You will receive a warning if you have 3 invalid absences or misconduct.
如果你有 3 次无效缺勤或违规行为，你将收到警告。
Upon repeated warnings, your parents will be asked to supervise you in class or you will be dropped out of the class.
经多次警告后，你的父母将被要求在课堂上监督你，否则你将被退学。
CELL PHONES & DEVICES 手机和电子产品
Due to increased violations and class disruptions, we are implementing stricter policies on cell phones and electronic devices (e.g. laptops) to ensure a focused and productive learning environment for all students. We refer to Dana Cell Phone & Electronic Policy and the following new rules will take effect immediately:
由于违规行为和课堂干扰的增加，我们正在对手机和电子设备（例如笔记本电脑）实施更严格的政策，以确保为所有学生提供专注且高效的学习环境。我们参考了 Dana 手机和电子政策，以下新规则将立即生效：
NO CELL PHONE & DEVICES USAGE
禁止使用手机和设备
Students' phones must be turned off and placed in backpack during class. 上课期间学生的手机必须关闭并放入背包中。
Electronic devices (e.g. laptops) may be used during class only when given permission by the coaches for class-related activity. 只有在教练允许进行与课堂相关的活动时，才可以在课堂上使用电子设备（例如笔记本电脑）。
If a cell phone or electronic device creates disturbance in class, it will be confiscated and handed over to the president. Parent must be present to sign and redeem it. 如果手机或电子设备在课堂上造成干扰，将被没收并移交给会长。家长必须在场签名索回。
Disruption of class activities include: 扰乱班级活动行为包括：
Device taken out during class and passed around or shared with other students. 在课堂上拿出手机并传递或与其他学生共享。
Making / receiving calls. 拨打 / 接听电话。
Playing videos, texting, accessing internet, using apps, capturing photographs or video, or using other electronic function. 播放视频、发短信、访问互联网、使用应用程序、拍摄照片或视频或使用其他电子功能。
NO AUDIO/VIDEO RECORDING
不许录制音频/视频
Students are not allowed to use the camera function or any audio/video recording function of the phone on campus without the permission of the President or his/her designee, and without the consent of the subject being photographed or filmed.
未经会长或其指定人员许可，未经被拍照或拍摄对象同意，学生不得在校内使用手机的拍照功能或任何录音/录像功能。
No recorded images from a student’s electronic device may be shared with the public, including but not limited to, social networking sites, printed materials, email, messaging, video chat, picture mail, or any other present or future public forum.
学生电子设备中记录的图像不得与公众共享，包括但不限于社交网站、印刷材料、电子邮件、短信、视频聊天、图片邮件或任何其他当前或未来的公共论坛。
Any attempt to use an electronic signaling device to bully, harass or intimidate a student or staff member will result in immediate disciplinary action(s).
任何试图使用电子信号设备欺凌、骚扰或恐吓学生或教职员工的行为都将立即受到纪律处分。
LIFE, PERSONAL & SOCIAL SCIENCE
Participants will be assessed on their understanding of the anatomy and physiology of the human Skeletal, Muscular, and Integumentary systems.
Participants will use investigative skills in the scientific study of disease, injury, health, and disability in populations or groups of people.
Participants will answer questions involving content knowledge and process skills in the area of ecology and adaptations in featured North American biomes.
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.
Teams will answer questions, solve problems, and analyze data pertaining to microbes.
EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE
Participants will demonstrate an understanding of the large-scale processes affecting the structure of Earth’s crust.
Teams identify and classify fossils and demonstrate their knowledge of ancient life. Tasks will be related to the interpretation of past environments and ecosystems, adaptations, evolutionary relationships, and the use of fossils in dating and correlating rock units.
Participants will use scientific process skills involving qualitative and quantitative analyses to demonstrate an understanding of the factors that contribute, cause, and influence Severe Weather and Storms.
Participants will demonstrate an understanding of the formation and early-stage evolution of stars and their observation across the electromagnetic spectrum.
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.
PHYSICAL SCIENCE & CHEMISTRY
Prior to the competition, teams will design, construct, and calibrate a single device capable of launching projectiles onto a target and collect data regarding device parameters and performance.
Given a scenario, a collection of evidence, and possible suspects, students will perform a series of tests. Test results along with other evidence will be used to solve a crime and answer questions.
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.
Participants demonstrate their knowledge of specified substances, and chemical properties and effects with a focus on common toxins and poisons.
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.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
Prior to the tournament, teams will design, construct, and test free flights of rubber-powered helicopters to achieve maximum time aloft.
Prior to the competition, competitors will design, build, test, and document a Rube-Goldberg-like device that completes a required task through an optional series of simple machines.
Prior to the competition, competitors must design, build, and test one mechanical device that 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 Terminal Barrier without breaking the egg.
Teams will design and build a Tower (Structure) meeting the requirements specified in these rules to achieve the highest structural efficiency.
INQUIRY & NATURE OF SCIENCE
Teams will cryptanalyze and decode encrypted messages using cryptanalysis techniques for historical and modern advanced ciphers.
This event will determine a participant's ability to design, conduct, and report the findings of an experiment entirely on-site.
Teams will estimate and then measure properties of identical objects including mass, area, volume, density, force, distance, time, and temperature.
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.
OTHER CLASSES
Students will learn computer science principles and computer programming.
Newtonian Physics
Students will learn physics concepts and be more prepared for success in high school physics and physics competitions such as F=ma. Students will also do experiments with physical materials such as creating circuits with Aruduino and compound pulley.