Event Descriptions

2 ✦ 09/05/2025

CONTACT INFO FORM

VERY IMPORTANT!!!

Reminders

• Discord Etiquette
• Be respectful and obey the server rules!
• You are being monitored by the officers + Mr. Lewis
• Inappropriate behavior has consequences
• Waitlist
• Regionals Day → February 28, 2026!
• Mark your calendars!!
• Contact information form final call this week- if you are filling out events form you MUST have contact form filled out first.

FAQs

• How do I get on the team?
• As long as you are on our contact list, fill out all needed registration forms (later in the year), and actively participate in our club, you will compete!
• How does high school Scioly differ from middle school?
• Div B vs C, higher difficulty level, parent-run vs school club
• How are the matrices created?
• We do our best to accommodate everyone’s preferred events, and experience in these topics
• Holistic - we take in many factors
• NO GUARANTEES

Top Team Info

• Top Team ultimately decides if we go to states
• Without a strong top team with placements - we will not qualify
• However our other teams take placements from other school’s top teams and help us
• Top Team has more expectations and meetings
• Do NOT try out for top team without being willing to put in more work and effort
• Top team is EXPECTED to help out other teams and share resources
• IMPORTANT UPDATE: Only people with at least 1 year of experience can try out, unfortunately we will not take freshman or others new to our club

Top Team Tryouts Poll

• Top team is our team of highest performing competitors
• Only vote if you’re interested in trying out
• Raise your hand for ALL DAYS you can attend
• You must have your events request form submitted BEFORE top team tryouts, and cannot be on the waitlist

STUDY EVENTS

Anatomy and Physiology

Participants will be assessed on their understanding of the anatomy and physiology for the nervous, special senses, and endocrine systems of the human body.

Astronomy

Teams will demonstrate an understanding of stellar evolution: From formation to

destruction.

Circuit Lab

Participants must complete tasks and answer questions about electricity and magnetism.

Codebusters

Teams will cryptanalyze and decode encrypted messages using cryptanalysis techniques for historical and modern advanced ciphers.

Designer Genes

Teams will answer questions, solve problems, and analyze data pertaining to classic, evolutionary, and molecular genetics.

Disease Detectives

Participants will use their investigative skills in the scientific study of disease, injury, health, and disability in populations or groups of people.

Dynamic Planet

Teams will complete tasks related to physical and geological oceanography.

Entomology

Students will be asked to identify insects and selected immature insects by indicated taxonomy (order, subclass, or family), answer questions about insects, and use or construct a dichotomous key. All specimens will be representatives of insects found in the Contiguous United States.

Remote Sensing

Participants will use remote sensing imagery, data, and computational process skills to complete tasks related to climate change processes in the Earth system.

Rocks and Minerals

Teams will identify and classify rocks and minerals and demonstrate knowledge of how rocks and minerals help to understand geologic processes, interpretation of earth’s history, the development of natural resources, and use by society.

BUILD EVENTS

Boomilever

Teams will design and build a cantilevered beam or truss structure that extends from a vertical Testing Wall and supports a load at a specified distance from the Testing Wall. The structure must meet the requirements specified in these rules to achieve the highest score, which is a combination of structural efficiency and Load Scored Bonus.

Bungee Drop

Each team will design one elastic cord to conduct drops at a given height(s) and attempt to get a mass placed in a bottle as close as possible to, but without touching, a landing surface.

Electric Vehicle

Teams design, build, and test one vehicle that uses electrical energy as its sole means of propulsion to travel in a set amount of time and stop close to a Target Point.

Helicopter

Prior to the tournament, teams will construct, collect data on test flights, analyze and optimize free flight rubber-powered helicopters to achieve maximum time aloft.

Hovercraft

Prior to the competition, participants will design, construct, and calibrate a self-propelled air-levitated vehicle that moves down a track.

Robot Tour

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.

LAB EVENTS

Chemistry Lab

Teams will complete one or more tasks and answer a series of questions involving the science processes of chemistry focused in the areas of chemical reactions/stoichiometry and kinetics.

Engineering CAD

Teams will read a set of engineering drawings and collaborate to CAD parts in Onshape and then incorporate these parts with provided components to create an assembly.

Experimental Design

Participants will be assessed on the ability to design, conduct, and report the findings of an experiment entirely on-site.

Forensics

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.

Machines

Teams will construct a lever-based measuring device prior to the tournament to determine the mass ratios between three test masses and complete a written test on simple and compound machine

Materials Science

Teams will complete lab activities and answer a series of questions related to the materials science of nanomaterials with an emphasis on chemical, physical, optical, and mechanical properties of nanomaterials.

Water Quality

Participants will be assessed on their understanding and evaluation of freshwater aquatic environments.

Notes for Event Requests

• You must provide your top 6 event choices
• These are the events we will prioritize you for and will try to assign you
• At least 1 of your top 6 MUST be a build event!
• Make sure to have the correct amount of partners listed
• Do not put multiple partners for an event that competes as a duo
• Both partners must put each other as a partners AND have the same ranking of events - do NOT make partner triangles
• NO GUARANTEES
• If you submit past our deadline or our participant cap, you will automatically be added to the waitlist (you will be informed of this)
• Submit submit submit asap!

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Event Request Form

Rules Manual

Contact Info Form