List of some Science Competition Event Projects
The competition events are always changing each year for different science competitions, but it is roughly included in several categories. The following list of examples is some of the projects used in science hands on competition events. Teacher will help students choose one or two best events in order to catch the best result that year.
Boomilever - Students will build a lightest cantilevered wooden structure which can hold maximum load.
Bungee Drop - Student Design one "elastic" cord to conduct a "drop" at a given height and attempt to get a drop mass placed in a bottle as close as possible to the landing surface.
Tower -Lightest wooden structure which can hold maximum load.
Bridge - lightest wooden Structure that can hold maximum load.
Maglev - Self-propelled magnetically-levitaed vehicle that uses battery-powered motor that turns propeller to move the vehicle down a magnetic track.
Elastic Launched Glider - Students will design, build and test two elastic launched gliders capable of the highest time aloft.
Wright Stuff: event where participants try to make, test, and fly an airplane powered by a twisted rubber band or electric capacitor for the goal of longest flight duration.
Helicopter - Students will construct and test free flight rubber-powered helicopters prior to the tournament to achieve maximum flight times.
Rotor Egg Drop - student will construct a helicopter device which uses one or more helicopter rotors to safely transport a raw chicken egg from a specified height to the floor.
Bottle Rocket, Egg-O-Naut - events that involves building a rocket made from two empty plastic carbonated drink bottles, stay aloft for the longest amount of time
Gravity Vehicle - design, build and test one vehicle and ramp that uses gravitational potential energy as the vehicle's sole means of propulsion to reach a Target Point as quickly, as accurately and as close to their predicted time as possible.
Mousetrap Vehicle - design, build and test a vehicle using one mousetrap as the sole means of propulsion to reach a target as quickly, accurately and close to their predicted time as possible.
Electric Vehicle – build and test a vehicle that can travel a given distance in a predictable amount of time while staying in a straight line.
Mission Possible - Prior to the competition, participants will design, build, test and document a "Rube Goldberg-like device" that completes a required Final Task using a sequence of consecutive tasks.
Hovercraft - student constrct a self-propelled air-levitated vehicle with battery-powered motor(s) that turn
propellers to levitate and move the vehicle down a track.
Robot Arm - design, build, document and test one robotic device to move scored items.
Robot Ramble - event in which participants must design and build a robot capable of performing various tasks. This robot must meet certain parameters, such as size, method of control, electricity used, and overall safety.
Scrambler - Mechanical device which uses the energy from a falling mass to transport an egg along a straight track as quickly as possible and stop as close to the center of a terminal barrier without breaking the egg.
Trajectory - It is an event in which you must make a device that is able to launch a tennis ball, racket ball, ping pong ball or hacky sack, powered by a non metallic elastic solid.
Sounds of Music - Prior to the competition, students will build two instruments based on a 12 tone tempered scale, prepare to describe the principles behind their operation and be able to perform a major scale, a required melody and a chosen melody with each.
International Bridge Building Contest: This is a contest for individual high school students, not teams. The object of this contest is to see who can design, construct and test the most efficient bridge within these specifications. Model bridges are intended to be simplified versions of real-world bridges, which are designed to accept a load in any position and permit the load to travel across the entire bridge.