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Consider joining the Science Olympiad Team this year. We are beginning the team, so it will be an adventure and learning experience. You could be part of the creation, growth and development of a new team for St. Jude! Join in for fun experiments and creative building, research, and great competition.

We will practice old tests in order to be ready for the tests given this year. These include: ([|Florida Science Olympiad])
 * 1) Amphibians and Reptiles/Herpetology (B/C) – Teams will be assessed on their knowledge of amphibians and reptiles, including interaction with ecosystem and reproduction.
 * 2)   (B) - Teams will be tested on their knowledge of anatomy and health concepts.
 * 3) Astronomy (C) - Teams identify deep sky objects and solve astronomy problems.
 * 4) BioProcess Lab (B) - 
 * 5) Cell Biology (C) – Teams will utilize basic laboratory skills to solve problems involving cell biology and identification of cellular structures.
 * 6) Chemistry Lab (C) - Teams will demonstrate chemistry laboratory skills related to selected topics.
 * 7) Compute This (B) - Teams will research a problem on the internet and use computer applications to present their findings.
 * 8) Crave the Wave (B) – Teams will demonstrate knowledge of waves and the application of wave concepts in a wide variety of sciences.
 * 9) Disease Detective (B/C) - This event requires students to apply principles of epidemiology to a published report of a real-life health situation or problem.
 * 10) Dynamic Planet (B/C) - Teams will work at stations that display a variety of earth science materials and related earth science questions.
 * 11) Ecology (B/C) - Students will answer questions involving content knowledge and process skills in the area of ecology and adaptation by examining different ecosystems.
 * 12) Egg-O-Naut (C) - Teams will design, construct, and launch rockets to stay aloft the greatest amount of time, which will carry a raw egg.
 * 13)  Electric Vehicle (C) – Teams will construct a vehicle powered only with the energy from a battery.
 * 14)  Elevated Bridge (B/C) - Teams will design, build & test the lightest elevated bridge to carry a maximum load.
 * 15) Environmental Chemistry (B/C) - Teams will be asked questions pertaining to the environment, which may include chemical reactions, characterization, and quantification
 * 16) Experimental Design (B/C) - Given a set of unknown objects, teams will design, conduct, analyze and write-up an experiment.
 * 17) Forensics (C) - Students will identify polymers, solids, fibers, and other materials in a crime scenario.
 * 18) Fossils (B/C) - Students will identify, describe, and classify various fossil specimens
 * 19) Health Science-(C) -Teams will be tested on their knowledge of health concepts.
 * 20) It's About Time (C) - Teams will build a time keeping device.
 * 21) Junkyard Challenge (C) - Teams will construct an Autonomous Device (AD) that solves a Challenge requiring creative problem solving, experimentation and flexible design.
 * 22) Meteorology (B) - This event involves the use of process skills as applied to meteorology.
 * 23) Pentathlon (B) - Physical skills are interspersed with science questions in an obstacle course that is conducted as a relay-style race.
 * 24) Physical Science Lab (B) - Teams will demonstrate physical science laboratory skills related to selected topics.
 * 25) Physics Lab (C) - Teams will demonstrate physics laboratory skills related to selected topics.
 * 26)  [|Picture This] (C) - Teams will take turns to communicate a set of scientific terms or concepts using pictures while the other team member guesses the terms.
 * 27) Reach for the Stars (B) - This event will address the Sun, planets and their satellites, comets, asteroids, the Oort Cloud, the Kuiper Belt, meteoroids, meteorites, and meteors
 * 28) Remote Sensing (C) - Teams use maps and remote sensing technology to explain human land use patterns and the relationship of a region’s physical environment to the cultural landscape.
 * 29) <span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 128);">Road Scholar (B) - Requires the accurate interpretation and understanding of various map features using a variety of road and topographic maps.
 * 30) <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Robo-Cross (B) - Students will design and build a robot capable of performing certain tasks. <span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 128);">
 * 31) <span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 128);">Science Crime Busters (B) – 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.
 * 32) <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Scrambler (B) - Teams will design and build a mechanical device which uses the energy from a falling mass to transport a Grade A uncooked chicken egg along a straight track.
 * 33) Technical Problem Solving (C) - Teams will be required to gather and process data to solve a given problem.
 * 34) <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Trajectory (B/C) - Teams will design, construct, calibrate and operate a device capable of launching a projectile far and accurately using only elastic energy.
 * 35) <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Wright Stuff (B) - Teams will design and build a propeller propelled aerodynamic device for greatest time aloft.
 * 36) <span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 128);">Write It/Do It (B/C) - A technical writing exercise where students write a description of a contraption and other students will attempt to recreate it using only the written description.

The Science Olympiad Team will practice throughout the year in order to better skills and prepare for competitions. Competitions require students to develop a product given parts with extra points awarded for adding special features. The product will then be judged based on it's ability to complete a test.

Students are judged on a regional level and then may qualify for the [|state level] <span class="wiki_link_ext"> and national level.

PARENTS, FRIENDS, FAMILY - If you have expertise in Science Olympiad, The Sciences, Engineering or any field related to these competitions we would love to have you visit and help to prepare the students. Please contact Ms. Swoch about joining the Science Olympiad Team or being a Visiting Specialist.