Events for 2025−2026

Meadowbrook competes in the B Division of Science Olympiad. Please see the link below for the official list of events for this season. We will be providing additional, Meadowbrook specific information as our team forms.

https://www.soinc.org/events/2026-division-b-events

Please keep the conflict schedule in mind as well when selecting your events.

Life, Personal, & Social Science

Anatomy and Physiology

Learn about the human body! In this event, participants will be assessed on their understanding of the anatomy and physiology for the Nervous, Special Senses, and Endocrine Systems of the human body.

Disease Detectives

Put your investigative skills to the test in the scientific study of disease, injury, health, and disability in populations or groups of people.

Entomology

Learn all about bugs! Participants will learn how to identify North American insects and certain immature insects by indicated taxonomy order and family, answer questions about insects, and use or construct a dichotomous key.

Heredity

Answer questions, solve problems, and analyze data pertaining to classic and molecular genetics.

Water Quality

All about H2O! In this event, you will be assessed on what you have learned about understanding and evaluating freshwater aquatic environments.

Earth and Space Science

Dynamic Planet

Learn about our ever changing planet! Complete tasks related to physical and geological oceanography.

Meteorology

Use scientific process skills involving qualitative and quantitative analyses to demonstrate an understanding of the factors that influence Everyday Weather through the interpretation of meteorological data, graphs, charts, and images.

Remote Sensing

Learn how to use the basic principles of remote sensing and use imagery, data, and maps to complete related to Earth systems processes.

Rocks and Minerals

Identify and classify rocks and minerals and demonstrate knowledge of how rocks and minerals help to understand geologic processes, interpretation of Earth’s history, the development of natural resources, and use by society.

Solar System

Learn about planet formation and structure within and beyond the Solar System.

Physical Science & Chemistry

Circuit Lab

Zap! Learn all about electricity. Complete tasks and answer questions about electricity and magnetism.

Crime Busters

In this event, you will be given a scenario, a collection of evidence, & possible suspects. Your job is to perform a series of tests. Test results, along with other evidence, will be used to solve a crime & answer questions.

Hovercraft (Build Event)

You will design, construct, and calibrate a self-propelled air-levitated vehicle that moves down a track.

Machines

Construct a lever-based measuring device prior to the tournament to determine the mass ratios between three test masses and complete a written test on simple and compound machine concepts.

Potions and Poisons

All about chemical properties and effects of specified toxic and therapeutic chemical substances, with a focus on household and environmental toxins or poisons.

Technology and Engineering

Boomilever (Build Event)

Design and build a cantilevered beam or truss structure that extends from a vertical Testing Wall and supports a load at a specified distance from the Testing Wall. The highest score is achieved by a combination of structural efficiency and Load Scored Bonus.

Helicopter (Build Event)

Construct, collect data on test flights, analyze, and optimize a free flight rubber-powered helicopter to achieve maximum time aloft.

Mission Possible (Build Event)

In this event, prior to the competition, you will design, build, test, and document a Rube Goldberg®- like Device that completes required Start and Final Actions through a series of specific actions.

Scrambler (Build Event)

Design, build, and test a mechanical device, which uses the energy from a falling mass to transport an egg along a track as quickly as possible and stop as close to the center of a Terminal Barrier (TB) without breaking the egg.

Inquiry & Nature of Science

Codebusters

Bust Codes! Decrypt, and decode encrypted messages using cryptanalysis techniques for historical and modern advanced ciphers.

Experimental Design

You will compete by designing, conducting, and reporting the findings of an experiment entirely on-site.

Metric Mastery

Master the metric system by estimating and then measuring properties of identical objects, including mass, area, volume, density, force, distance, time, and temperature. You will also perform metric unit conversions.

Write it Do it

One teammate will write a description of an object and how to build it. The other teammate will attempt to construct the object from this description.