Anatomy and Physiology: Understand the anatomy of the human body systems: Integumentary, Muscular, and Skeletal

Disease Detectives: In this event, participants will use their investigative skills in the scientific study of disease,injury, health, and disability in populations or groups of people.

Ecology: In this event, participants will answer questions involving content knowledge and process skills in the area of ecology and adaptations in featured North American biomes.

Entomology: In this event, students will be asked to identify insects and selected immature insects by order and family, answer questions about insects, and use or construct a dichotomous key.

Microbe Mission: In this event, teams will answer questions, solve problems and analyze data pertaining to microbes.

Meteorology: In this event, participants will use scientific process skills involving qualitative and quantitative analyses to demonstrate an understanding of the factors that influence world climate and climate change through the interpretation of climatological data, graphs, charts and images.

Dynamic Planet: In this event, participants will demonstrate an understanding of the processes involving the cryosphere of the Earth including glaciers and other ice formations and processes.

Fossils: In this event, teams identify and classify fossils and demonstrate their knowledge of ancient life.

Road Scholar: In this event, participants will answer interpretive questions that may use one or more state highway maps, USGS topographic maps, Internet-generated maps, a road atlas, or satellite/aerial images.

Reach for the Stars: In this event, participants will demonstrate an understanding of late-stage stellar evolution and stellar remnants, and their observation across the electromagnetic spectrum.

Astronomy: In this event, teams will demonstrate an understanding of Stellar Evolution: Star Formation & Exoplanets.

Geologic Mapping: In this event, 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.

Crime Busters: In this event, given a scenario, a collection of evidence, and possible suspects, students will perform a series of tests. The test results along with other evidence will be used to solve a crime.

Potions and Poisions: This event is about chemical properties and effects of specified toxic and therapeutic chemical substances, with a focus on household and environmental toxins or poisons.

Air Trajectory: In this event, 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.

Optics: In this event, 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.

Wind Power: In this event, 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.

Chem Lab: In this event, teams will complete one or more tasks and answer a series of questions involving the science processes of chemistry focused in the areas of Periodicity and Equilibrium.

Forensics: In this event, given a scenario and some possible suspects, students will perform a series of tests.

Materials Science: In this event, teams will complete lab activities and answer a series of questions related to the materials science of ceramics with an emphasis on chemical and crystalline structure, and behavior.

Helicopter: In this event, prior to the tournament, teams will construct, collect data on test flights, analyze and optimize a free flight rubber-powered helicopter to achieve maximum time aloft.

Mission Possible: In this event, prior to the competition, participants design, build, test, and document a Rube Goldberg®- like Device that completes required Start and Final Actions through a series of specific actions.

Tower: In this event, teams will design and build a Tower (Structure) meeting requirements specified in these rules to achieve the highest structural efficiency.

Scrambler: In this event, teams design, build, and test a mechanical device, which uses the energy from a falling mass to transport an egg along a track as quickly as possible and stop as close to the center of a Terminal Barrier without breaking the egg.

Electric Vehicle: Teams design, build, and test one vehicle that uses electric energy as its sole means of propulsion to travel as quicly as possible stop close to the Target Point.

Robot Tour: In this event, 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.

Experimental Design: This event will determine the participant’s ability to design, conduct, and report the findings of an experiment entirely on-site.

Write it Do: it In this event, 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.

Codebusters: In this event, teams will cryptanalyze and decode encrypted messages using cryptanalysis techniques for historical and modern advanced ciphers.

Metric Mastery: In this event, teams will estimate and then measure properties of identical objects including mass, area, volume, density, force, distance, time, and temperature. Teams will also perform metric unit conversions.

Bungee Drop: In this event, each team will design one elastic cord to conduct two separate drops at a given height(s) and attempt to get a drop mass, placed in a bottle, as close as possible to, but without touching, a landing surface.