Barge Building

Each member will construct a barge of aluminum foil that can support the largest amount of cargo without getting it wet.

Bottle Music

A three person team will tune a set of bottles by filling them to different levels with water and blow across them to play two different tunes.

Can Race

Each team of two students will construct one can racer before coming to the Olympiad which will be raced against the clock in a drag racing format.

Chopper Challenge

Teams of two will build and test three choppers.

Cool It

Each team will construct a device to keep an ice cube from melting.

Gunk

Each student will behave like a chemist or chemical engineer and produce a product, gunk, with certain characteristics.

Measurements and Metrics

Students will demonstrate and intuitive feeling for estimating and later for measuring different events/objects.

Mystery Architecture

Teams of students build the tallest, most stable tower from materials given them at the competition.

Mystery Powder

A team of two students will be asked to identify a mixture of common white household powders.

Pastamobile

Teams of students build a car using only glue and pasta that, when released from the top of a ramp, will travel the greatest distance within a 1.5m wide lane before stopping.

Picture This

This event has teams of 3 students each competing in a contest in which one member draws “clues” for the others to guess a science term or concept.

Science Jeopardy

Students choose a category and a level of difficulty from the game board and view and listen to an answer to a question.  The first team to respond with an appropriate question for the answer will be awarded points and will hose the next topic and level.

Straw Egg Drop

Each team of students will make a device of straws and masking tape, supplied on-site by the event supervisor to hold a large, raw egg.  The device containing the egg will be dropped from fixed height to a target.