Summer Science Olympiad: High School students coach Middle Schoolers
Science Olympiad Medals
Explore Science Olympiad topics this summer and help your student try a self study event. We’re fortunate this summer to have high school students coaching middle school students interested in Science Olympiad .
Great Science Olympiad resources include:
SoInc.org SciOly.org NJ Science Olympiad
Start by having your student peruse likely regional Science Olympiad events to see what might be interesting and pick their top choices.
Teams are often up to 15 students in 3 Divisions:
- A – grades 3-6, 1 team per school
- B – grades 6-9, 2 teams per school
- C – grades 9-12, 2 teams per school
Our Middle and High School have teacher-led, school sponsored teams which start meeting in ~October for competitions starting in January. Elementary students might form a team for a Saturday competition in May.
Perusing a rules manual might be useful. Science Olympiad is primarily self-study rather than taught and has 3 types of events: study, build and laboratory.
We hope to help our kids discover and explore their deeper interests in Science this summer! Keep in mind that Creative Compensation Opens Opportunities for Teens and encourages them to participate as role models. Smart Carpools can help make the coordination practical and school clubs can help keep kids interested in STEM.
NJ Science Olympiad Events for Division B (6th – 9th grade) 2015
For more detailed info see: New Jersey Science Olympiad
| Biology | |
| Anatomy | knowledge of anatomy and health with focus on skeletal, muscular, and integumentary systems |
| Bio-Process Lab | lab-oriented biology event |
| Disease Detectives | knowledge of disease, injury, health and disability in populations or groups of people with a focus on population growth |
| Biology Blitz | knowledge of common names, phylum/division or class and facts about organisms |
| Chemistry | |
| Crime Busters | figure out a crime using paper chromatography and analysis of unknown solids, liquids, and plastics |
| Food Science | knowledge of the chemistry of food |
| Physics | |
| Reach for the Stars | knowledge of the properties and evolution of stars, open clusters and globular clusters, and normal and star-forming galaxies |
| Crave the Wave | knowledge of waves and wave motion |
| Earth Science | |
| Meteorology | understanding of everyday weather |
| Dynamic Planet | complete tasks related to physical and geological oceanography |
| Green Generation | knowledge of history and consequences of human impact on our environment, solutions to reversing trends and sustainability |
| Invasive Species | knowledge and identification of invasive species in local and national ecosystems |
| Fossils | knowledge and identification of fossils |
| General Science | |
| Experimental Design | given a set of unknown objects, team will design, conduct, analyze, and write-up an experiment |
| Picture This | one draws a term, the other guesses |
| Write It Do It | one writes up how to build a contraption, the other recreates it using only the description |
| Road Scholar | knowledge of state highway maps, topographic maps, road atlases, and satellite/aerial images |
| Build Events | |
| Air Trajectory | device to launch projectiles into a target accurately |
| Wind Power | propeller system attached to a CD that generates the greatest voltage from a gentle and strong breeze |
| Elevated Bridge | bridge with highest structural efficiency (mass held divided by mass of bridge) that can span a given opening |
| Elastic Launched Glider | elastic launched glider capable of the maximum time aloft |
| Mission Possible | Rube Goldberg-like device to complete a Final Task using a sequence of consecutive energy transfers |
| Scrambler | device that uses energy from a falling mass to transport an egg quickly and as close as possible to a barrier without breaking the egg |
| Bottle Rocket | rocket designed to stay aloft for the greatest amount of time |
| Mystery Architecture | teams will be given a bag of building materials at the beginning of the event and asked to design and build a device that can be tested |
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