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.

Metric Mastery - Students will estimate and then measure identical objects in metric units. The properties to be measured may include mass, volume, density, area, force, distance, time and temperature.

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

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.

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.

Simple Machines - Teams will be expected to determine the IMA, AMA and/or Efficiency of simple machines.

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.