CLASSES 课 程

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. 

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 relating to genetics, molecular biology, and hereditary inheritance; solving problems and analyze data or diagrams using their knowledge of the basic principles of genetics.  

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

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 use remote sensing imagery, data and computational process skills to complete tasks related to climate change processes in the Earth system. 

Teams identify rocks and minerals from the official list and answer questions about them. This competition is usually in a station format. Specimens may be physical or in the form of pictures. 

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.

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. 

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.