Science Olympiad

1. Science Olympiad Science Olympiad Competition will be held on Saturday, March 23, 2013, 8am – 6pm Mountainside Middle School 11256 N 128th Street Scottsdale, AZ

2. Science Olympiad • Fill out your information sheet • Take it home and discuss the competitions with your parents • If your parents are ok with you participating, and you can commit to being there on the day of the event, have them sign the sheet and return to Mrs. Kaminer • We are only taking 1 team to Science Olympiad • We won’t be sure which events you’ll be participating in until the event is closer and we receive the schedule for Science Olympiad.

3. Science Olympiad • Teams of 2 compete in events throughout the day • Competition is held in Scottsdale at Mountainside Middle School. • The event lasts ALL DAY. We leave school at 6 am and return around 7:30 pm • We carpool out together as a team and set up our area. • Teams compete in their events throughout the day. • Once events are finished, there is a break while the judges tally scores • Award ceremony is held at the end of the day • Carpool back to school.

4. Science Olympiad • There are several events • They change every year • If you decide to join the team, we will meet twice a month (more often the month of the event) to help you prepare • We will be meeting on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of every month. • You will choose 2 – 4 events to participate in with a partner. • At each meeting you will practice/study/discuss your events to prepare • You will need to prepare and study at home also • YOU MUST BE COMMITTED TO THIS COMPETITION! If you quit at the last minute that is unfair to your partner/team.

5. 2013 Events • This years events

6. Events • Anatomy - Teams will be tested on their knowledge of anatomy and health concepts including nervous and digestive systems. • Environmental Quality • Heredity - Students will solve problems and analyze data or diagrams using their knowledge of the basic principles of genetics. • Shock Value - Students will compete in activities involving basic understanding of electricity, magnetism and simple electrical devices.

7. Events • Crime Busters - Teams will identify the perpetrators of a crime or crimes by using paper chromatography and analysis of unknown solids, liquids, and plastics found at the scene of a crime. • Disease Detective - This event requires students to apply principles of epidemiology to a published report of a real-life health situation or problem. (Food Borne Illness)

8. Events • Dynamic Planet - Teams will work at stations that display a variety of earth science materials and related earth science questions. (Glaciers) • Experimental Design - Given a set of unknown objects, teams will design, conduct, analyze and write-up an experiment. • Food Science - Using their understanding of the chemistry and physical properties of baking ingredients, teams will answer questions at a series of stations.

9. Events • Forestry - This event will test student knowledge of North American trees that are on the Official National Tree List. • Keep the Heat - Teams must construct an insulated device prior to the tournament that is designed to retain heat. Students must also complete a written test on thermodynamic concepts. • Meteorology - This event involves the use of process skills as applied to meteorology (Everyday weather).

10. Events • Reach for the Stars - Students will demonstrate an understanding and basic knowledge of the properties and evolution of stars, open clusters and globular clusters, and normal and star-forming galaxies. • Road Scholar - Requires the accurate interpretation and understanding of various map features using a variety of road and topographic maps. • Rocks and Minerals - Teams will demonstrate their knowledge of rocks and minerals.

11. Sounds of Music - Prior to the competition, students will build two instruments based on a 12 tone tempered scale, prepare to describe the principles behind their operation and be able to perform a major scale, a required melody and a chosen melody with each • Bommilever - Students will build a cantilevered wooden structure. • Helicopters - Students will construct and test free flight rubber-powered helicopters prior to the tournament to achieve maximum flight times.

12. Mission Possible – Prior to the competition, participants will design, build, test and document a "Rube Goldberg-like device" that completes a required Final Task using a sequence of consecutive tasks. • Mousetrap Vehicles – Teams will design, build and test a vehicle using one mousetrap as the sole means of propulsion to reach a target as quickly, accurately and close to their predicted time as possible. • Metric Mastery – Students will demonstrate an intuitive feeling for estimating then measuring metric units including mass, volume, area, surface area, force, distance, time and temperature.

13. Rotor Egg Drop – A team will construct a helicopter device which uses one or more helicopter rotors to safely transport a raw chicken egg from a specified height to the floor. • Write It Do It - A technical writing exercise where students write a description of a contraption and other students will attempt to recreate it using only the written description.