Balloon Launch Glider - Teams will construct and fly monoplane gliders that will be launched from a balloon to achieve a maximum flight time.

Crave the Wave - In this event students will demonstrate knowledge and process skills needed to solve problems and answer questions regarding all types and areas of waves and wave motion.

Ecology - Students will answer questions involving content knowledge and process skills in the area of ecology and adaptation in featured biomes.

Food Science - Students will answer questions and perform developmentally appropriated experiments pertaining to food chemistry.

Oceanography - Students will use process skills to complete tasks related to physical and geological oceanography.

Reach for the Stars - Students will demonstrate an understanding and basic knowledge of the properties and evolution of sun-sized and massive stars, open clusters and globular clusters, and normal and star-forming galaxies.

Science Crime Busters - The objective is to correctly 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. Students may also be asked to interpret the results of DNA evidence, identify hair, fibers, shoe prints, tire treads and fingerprints.

Science Word - Team members will take turns giving verbal clues that are related to the selected scientific term from across all science disciplines while the other team member attempts to identify the term.

Scrambler - Prior to the competition the participants will design and build a mechanical device, which uses only the energy from a falling mass to transport an egg along a straight track, stopping as close to a terminal barrier as possible without breaking the egg.

Tower Building - The objective of this event is to design and build the lightest tower, with the highest structural efficiency, capable of supporting a load of up to 15 kg. Each team may bring and enter only one tower. Teams should maintain and submit a log containing data to help them improve future designs. The log will be used only for breaking ties.

Trajectory - Teams will design, construct, calibrate, and shoot a device capable of launching a ball into a target area and collect data to develop a series of graphs relating launch configuration to target distance and height.

Write It Do It - Technical writing skills are an important part of an engineer's or scientist's ability to communicate precisely and clearly. This event will test a competitor's ability to effectively communicate with a colleague in writing by having his or her partner construct a device from this written description.