1. Barge Building 2. Bridge Building 3. Crime Busters 4. Deep Blue Sea 5. Don’t Bug Me 6. Mystery

Architecture 7. No Bones About

It 8. Paper Rockets 9. Rock Hound 10. Simple Machines 11. Starry Starry

Night 12. Straw Egg Drop

13. Straw Tower 14. Water Rockets 15. Weather or Not 16. Which Way is North 17. Wildlife Safari 18. The 24 Game

The Georgia State Competition will be

held at KSU on May 13, 2017.

• Teams of 2 will be given a 15x15 cm piece of

aluminum foil to construct their barges.

• The event supervisor will inform the team

members of the cargo to be used and average

mass.

• The students must predict the number of

pieces of cargo that the barge will hold before

sinking.

• Teams of 2 build a suspension bridge

from straws and masking tape.

• Bridge must support 112 gram mass of

clay.

• Time is used as a tie breaker, not

additional weight.

• Teams of 2 use tests to identify unknown

powders, match fingerprints and use paper

chromatography to identify a note found at

a crime scene.

• Event will be limited to ocean flora and fauna

(algae, kelp, fish, mammals, mollusks, and

other living things) found in the oceans off the

coast of Georgia.

• Part I and Part II will be used.

• Two tiebreaker questions will be included.

• Students are to distinguish insects from

noninsects, identify various body parts,

characteristics, habitats, ecological

significance, life cycles and major classes and

order of arthropods.

• No notes or keys may used during

competition.

• Teams are given 20 minutes to construct a

tower using given materials. Tower should

support a tennis ball placed at its top.

• A team of 2 students will identify bones and

pictures of bones at stations throughout the

room.

• The students will also be required to

answer questions found on the cards at the

stations.

• Only the Scientific names of the bones will

be accepted as correct.

Teams will have 20 minutes to build a rocket using

straws, pencils, two pieces of paper, tape, scissors,

and a ruler.

• Students will use pre-prepared handwritten

notes and pictures to identify rock and mineral

samples (see event clarification for

information on notes)

• See manual for rock and mineral list

• Time used as a tie breaker

Students will answer questions about the

following simple machines:

• Lever

• Inclined plane

• Pulley

• Screw

• Wheel and axle

• Wedge

• Teams identify celestial objects

• Teams answer questions about

astronomical facts and concepts.

• See list on page 120 for stars and

constellations.

• Teams will use straws and masking tape to

hold a raw egg to be dropped from a height of

2-3 meters to a target.

• Large room temperature eggs will be placed in

ziptop sandwich bags at the start of the event.

• Tie breaker: additional drops from a higher

height for eggs surviving first drop.

• Teams work together to build the strongest

tower out of 50 straws and 1 meter of masking

tape.

• Towers must be at least 30cm tall at the loading

point.

• Loading blocks will be 5 cm x 5 cm pieces of

cardboard.

• Weights will be added to the loading block.

(anything will mass is considered a weight)

• Students will launch water rockets made from

2liter plastic soda bottles.

• Only one launch per team, pack chute before

event (no parent help allowed)

• All water rocket designs are required to have a

parachute, however the parachute does NOT

have to successfully deploy to be classified as a

successful launch.

• Water rockets designs must be less than one

meter in height.

• Teams will be tested on basic weather terms

and techniques. Students may be asked to make

readings from simple weather instruments.

• Time will be used as a tie breaker.

• Teams will attempt to navigate themselves

around a Georgia state road map.

• Question areas will include locating and

interpreting symbols and features,

determining distance between features, and

using the map index, scale and key.

• Time will be used as a tie breaker.

• Each team of two students will move from

station to station where they will be required to

answer a basic ecology question and identify a

specimen using reference guides provided.

• Students will have two minutes at each station.

• This is a Georgia specific event.

• Each team of students will be provided with

30 game cards to solve in 30 minutes or less.

Students will have to show their work on each

card they solve.

1st Place = 10 points

2nd Place = 9 points

3rd Place = 8 points

4th Place = 7 points

5th Place = 6 points

6th Place = 5 points

7th Place – 4 points

8th Place = 3 points

9th Place = 2 points

Participation = 1

point

New Events

• Crime Busters

• Deep Blue Sea

• The 24 Game

Open Events

• Paper Rockets

• Straw Egg Drop (only open to

parents of students performing

drop – due to space limitations)

• Water Rockets

Rain Event – What Went By