Division B

Division B Science Olympiad is for middle school age students, in 6th to 9th grade. Out of the fifteen students on the team, a maximum of five members can be in 9th grade. All students on the team must be from the membership school, with the exception of five members who attended the school the previous year. This is to accommodate for middle schools which may not have 8th or 9th grade students.

For the High School competition, see Division C. For the College competition, see Division D.

Anatomy (Nervous, Digestive)
Teams will be tested on their knowledge of anatomy and health concepts including nervous and digestive systems.

Boomilever
Students will build a cantilevered wooden structure.

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 Detectives (Environmental Quality)
This event requires students to apply principles of epidemiology to a published report of a real-life health situation or problem. (Environmental Quality)

Dynamic Planet (Glaciers)
Teams will work at stations that display a variety of earth science materials and related earth science questions, specifically 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.

Forestry
This event will test student knowledge of North American trees that are on the Official National Tree List.

Helicopters
Students will construct and test free flight rubber-powered helicopters prior to the tournament to achieve maximum flight times.

Heredity
Students will solve problems and analyze data or diagrams using their knowledge of the basic principles of genetics.

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 (Everyday Weather)
This event involves the use of process skills as applied to meteorology (Everyday Weather).

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.

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 Vehicle
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.

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.

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.

Shock Value
Students will compete in activities involving basic understanding of electricity, magnetism and simple electrical devices.

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.

Water Quality (Freshwater/Estuaries)
The event will focus on evaluating aquatic environments. (Freshwater/Estuaries)

Write It Do It
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.