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Science Olympiad is a team STEM competition in which nearly 8,000 middle school and high school teams compete each year.
There are 23 different events pertaining to various fields of science, including
earth science, biology, chemistry, physics, and engineering.
Events come in three basic categories: build, test, and lab and are generally done with one or more partners.
In the past, our team has participated in invitational competitions at universities such as MIT, Harvard,
Columbia, Princeton, Cornell, Brown, and many others.
In addition, our team is regularly competitive at the regional and state levels!
We compete in Division C, the division for students from 9-12.
We placed 6th at the 2022 NJ Science Olympiad State Tournament.
We medaled in 6 events: Chem Lab, Codebusters, Detector Building, Dynamic Planet, Ornithology, and Remote
Sensing
We placed 5th at the 2021 NJ Science Olympiad State Tournament.
We medaled in 9 events: Chem Lab, Circuit Lab, Codebusters, Designer Genes, Experimental Design, Forensics,
Machines, Protein Modeling, and Sounds of Music
We placed 2nd at the 2022 CMU Science Olympiad Invitational
We medaled in 16 events (including 11 Gold medals!):
We placed 9th at the 2021 Harvard-Brown Invitational
We were top 10 in Astronomy, Chemistry Lab, Codebusters, Environmental Chemistry, and Remote Sensing at the 2022 UPenn Science Olympiad Invitational
Participants will be assessed on their understanding of the
anatomy and physiology for the human Cardiovascular,
Lymphatic, and Excretory systems.
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Participants will use investigative skills in the scientific
study of disease, injury, health, and
disability in populations or groups of people.
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Participants will answer questions involving content
knowledge and process skills in the area of ecology and
adaptations in featured North American biomes.
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Participants will be assessed on their general forestry
knowledge and the trees found in the United States that are
on the 2024 Official Science Olympiad National Tree List.
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Teams will answer questions, solve problems and analyze data
pertaining to microbes.
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Teams will demonstrate an understanding of Stellar Evolution: Star Formation & Exoplanets.
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Participants will demonstrate an understanding of the large-scale processes affecting the structure of Earth's crust.
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Teams identify and classify fossils and demonstrate their knowledge of ancient life.
Tasks will be related to interpretation of past environments and ecosystems,
adaptations, evolutionary relationships, and the use of fossils in dating and correlating rock units.
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Teams will demonstrate understanding in the construction and use of topographic maps,
geologic maps, and cross sections, and their use in forming interpretations regarding subsurface structures and
past depositional environments on Earth and other planetary bodies.
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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.
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Teams will complete one or more tasks and answer a series of questions involving
the scienctific processes of chemistry focused in the areas of Periodicity and Equilibrium.
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Teams will build a durable ORP or Redox Probe that will accurately measure and display both voltage and
the concentrations of NaCl in parts per million from 0 to 5000 ppm of different water samples.
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Given a scenario and some possible suspects, students will perform a series of tests.
These tests, along with other evidence or test results, will be used to solve a crime.
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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.
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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.
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Prior to the tournament, teams will construct, collect data on test flights,
analyze and optimize a free flight rubber-powered aircraft to achieve maximum time aloft.
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Teams design, build, program and test one Robotic Vehicle to navigate a track to
reach a target at a set amount of time as accurately and efficiently as possible.
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Teams design, build, and test a mechanical device, which uses the energy from a falling mass
to transport an egg along a straight track as quickly as possible and stop as close to the center
of a Terminal Barrier (TB) without breaking the egg.
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Teams will design and build a Tower (Structure) meeting requirements specified in these rules
to achieve the highest structural efficiency.
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Teams will cryptanalyze and decode encrypted messages using
cryptanalysis techniques for historical and modern advanced ciphers.
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Participants will be tested on their ability to design, conduct, and report the findings of an experiment entirely on-site.
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Teams provide answers to a series of “Fermi Questions”;
science related questions that seek fast, rough estimates of a quantity, which is either difficult or impossible
to measure directly.
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One participant will write a description of an object and how to build it.
The other participant will attempt to construct the object from this description.
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Event descriptions from SOINC
Dr. Weinstein - Advisor
Pranav Sitaraman - President
Abhay Bhaskar - President
Thomas Catuosco - Vice President
Sanjay Ravishankar - Vice President
Atri Bhattacharjee - Secretary
Srishti Hazra - Treasurer
Harinarayan AsooriSriram - Event Director for MCASO