Transcript Welcome to the information meeting

Welcome to the
information meeting
What is the Science Olympiad?
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Annual science competition
23 individual and team events
Students focus on 4 events
Compete against other San Diego middle
schools in February
Sci-O Benefits
• Promotes teamwork & collaboration
• Improves study skills
• Exposure to sciences outside of regular
science class
• Great addition to academic resume
• Scholarship program for alumni
Science-O Student Commitment
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12 weeks of training  Oct 9 – Feb 10
4-6 hours per week
Attendance & participation at all trainings
Completion of work assigned by coach(es)
Adherence to VMS rules
Science-O Captain Commitment
• Adherence to coaching schedules
• Bulletins updating you on progress, dates,
schedules etc. every 2-3 weeks
• Work to accommodate student interest
Registration Form
• Complete contact information
Student info
Parent info
Read & sign acknowledgement
• Stop
• Donation for team
• Last day to sign up is September 25
Science-O Event Selections
• Rank top 5 on registration form
• Students are grouped by desired event(s)
and coaching schedules
• Build vs. Test event
Train for 2 builds and 2 tests
• Students crossed trained as much as
possible (may train, but not compete)
• Teams formed week prior to Olympiad
Science Olympiad Events:
Build Event
AWESOME AQUIFERS
• Design and build a model aquifer that will
allow a team to demonstrate and explain
groundwater concepts
If you’re into nature, ecosystems or model
building, this event could be for you
Science Olympiad Events:
Build Event
BALLOON LAUNCHED GLIDER
• Design, construct and test a gilder that
will remain aloft for a maximum period of
time
Do you like aerodynamics or aviation,
model building, or paper planes?
Engineering inclination
Science Olympiad Events:
Build Event
BALLOON RACE
• Attach a weight to helium-filled Mylar
balloons and race to a predetermined level
Like messing with balloons and good at
math?
Trial and error with different variables
Science Olympiad Events:
Build Event
MISSION POSSIBLE
• Design and build a Rube Goldberg like
device to accomplish a specific tasks
Love to build things? Contraptions? Did you
play Mouse trap? Ability to build simple
machines to make something happen
Engineering and ability to talk about your
invention
Science Olympiad Events:
Build Event
STORM THE CASTLE
• Teams design, construct, calibrate and
operate a device capable of launching
Understand the dynamics of Slingshots or
Catapult devices? Good at math?
Engineering inclination
Science Olympiad Events:
Build Event
TOWER
• Teams design, build and test the lightest
tower to carry a maximum load
Were you a Lego builder? House of Cards?
Enjoy Engineering, Mathematics
Miniature/precision model building
Science Olympiad Events:
Build Event
WHEELED VEHICLE
• Design and construct a vehicle that uses a
non-metallic elastic solid as its sole means
of propulsion
Like to build things that go? Did you design
Lego robotics?
Design and build your own vehicle
Science Olympiad Events:
Test Event
ANATOMY
• Test your knowledge of anatomy and
health concepts (focus on digestive and
nervous systems)
Interested in the human body?
Want to be a doctor?
Written and verbal tests skills
Science Olympiad Events:
Test Event
DISEASE DETECTIVES
• Students apply principles of epidemiology
to a published report of a real-life health
situation or problem
CSI fan?
Do you have good logic skills, good
detective?
Written test skills
Science Olympiad Events:
Test Event
DON’T BUG ME
• Demonstrate your knowledge of taxonomic
keys, habitats, life history and geographic
distribution
Dig bugs? Able to memorize and categorize?
Good written & verbal test skills
Science Olympiad Events:
Test Event
ECOLOGY
• Answer questions involving content
knowledge and process skills in the area
of ecology and adaptation by examining
different ecosystems
Love nature? Forest Life or Marine Biology
interest?
Verbal test skills & teamwork
Science Olympiad Events:
Test Events
FOOD CHEMISTRY
• Team answer questions about food
chemistry, which may include chemical
reactions, characterization and
quantification
Into the vinegar volcano experiment? Like to
see things blow up? Like to cook?
Verbal testing skills & teamwork
Science Olympiad Events:
Test Event
HEREDITY
• Solve problems and analyze data or
diagrams using your knowledge of basic
principles of genetics
Interested in why your eyes are blue and your
brothers are brown, dog breeding or plant
mutations
Verbal & written test skills
Science Olympiad Events:
Test Event
METEOROLOGY
• Involves the use of process skills as
applied to meteorology with respect to
everyday weather
Are you in tune with the weather and good at
math?
Great event for surfers
Science Olympiad Events:
Test Event
METRIC MASTERY
• Demonstrate an intuitive feeling for
estimating and later for measuring
different events/objects using S.I. metric
units
Do you have a lot of common sense? Good
knowledge of the metric system?
Good at taking written tests
Science Olympiad Events:
Test Event
OCEANOGRAPHY
• Work with your team at stations that
display a variety of oceanography
materials and related questions
Enjoy or want to learn about Marine & Ocean
life and locations
Good memorization and verbal testing skills
Science Olympiad Events:
Test Event
ROAD SCHOLAR
• Requires the accurate interpretation and
understanding of various map features
using a variety of road and topographic
maps
Are you a traveler? Like navigating, finding
your way using a variety of maps?
Simple mathematical computations
Science Olympiad Events:
Test Event
ROCKS & MINERALS
• Identify, describe and classify various
specimens
Good at categorizing, enjoy rocks & minerals
Organization and team work
Science Olympiad Events:
Test Events
SCIENCE 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
Like CSI? Want to be a forensics detective?
Logic, analysis & verbal communication
Science Olympiad Events:
Test Event
SCIENCE WORD
• Teams take turns using a set of scientific
terms or concepts while the other team
member guesses the terms
Like game shows? Fast on your feet?
Memorization & organization
Team player
Science Olympiad Events:
Test Event
SIMPLE MACHINES
• Teams demonstrate physics laboratory
skills related to simple machines
Working with levers, screws, pulleys, did you
love the book “How Things Work?”
Engineering skills and ability to talk about how
things work
Science Olympiad Events:
Test Event
SOLAR SYSTEM
• This event addresses the Sun, planets and
their satellites, comets, asteroids, the Oort
Cloud, the Kuiper belt, meteoroids,
meteorites and meteors
Are you a space cadet? Do you own a
telescope?
Good memorization skills, great at taking
verbal and written tests
Science Olympiad Events:
Test Event
WRITE IT DO IT
• Technical writing exercise where students
write a description of a contraption and
other students will attempt to recreate it
using only the written description
Ability to write clear instructions
Ability to decipher written instructions and
construct a something
Parent Volunteers
• Parent supervisor at Coaching Sessions
2-4 hours a week
• Snacks
At weekday VMS coaching sessions
• Event day
Set up
Food
Supplies
Important Dates
• September 12
• September 19
(schedules)
• September 29
• October 5
• October 9
• October 10
Team Name selections
Coaches Meeting
• February 6
• February 10
• February 24
Pre-Olympiad meeting
Science Olympiad
Science-O Picnic & Awards
Schedules delivered
Coaches Meeting (materials)
Training Begins this Week
Rubios Fundraiser
Captain Contacts
Robbin Lynn, Captain
760 579 2261 | [email protected]
Michelle Breyer, Captain
760 931 9160 | [email protected]
Official website for National Science Olympiad
www.soinc.org