Frequently Asked Questions
Do the events of the NC Science Olympiad align with State Standards?
The events of the North Carolina Science Olympiad (NCSO) align with the strands, goals, and objectives of the North Carolina Standard Course of Study (NCSCS). All events are designed to engage students to view science as: a human endeavor; inquiry; a way of knowing about the world; tentative; engaging; a process. As a result, the North Carolina Science Olympiad events align with the Philosophy and Strands of the NCSCS. Goals and objectives related to these Strands such as "inquiry" will not be specifically stated in parentheses by the events below because it is expressly understood that all events already align with these goals (for example, Grades 6-8, Goal 1 or Grades 9-12 Content Courses, Goal 1). Content specific goal alignment will be stated in parentheses by each event below.
Middle
School - Division B
High School - Division
C
Middle School - Division
B Events
Life Sciences
- Anatomy (Grade 7, Goal 4)
- Disease Detectives (Grade 8, Goal 7)
- Don’t Bug Me (Grades 5, Goal 1)
- Ecology (Grades 5 Goal 1; Grade 6, Goal 4; Grade 8, Goal 3)
- Forestry (Grade 5, Goal 1)
- Heredity (Grade 7, Goal 5)
Physical Sciences
- Balloon Race
(Grade 5, Goal 4; Grade 7, Goal 6)
- Food Science (Grade 8, Goal 4)
- Simple Machines (Grade 5, Goal 4; Grade 7, Goal 6)
- Science Crime Busters (Grade 8, Goal 4)
Earth/Environmental and Space Sciences
- Meteorology (Grade 5, Goal 3; Grade 7, Goal 3)
- Oceanography (Grade 8, Goal 3)
- Road Scholar (Grade 5, Goal 2; Grade 8, Goal 5)
- Rocks & Minerals (Grade 6, Goal 3)
- Solar System (Grade 6, Goal 5)
Inquiry/Nature of Science
- Awesome Aquifer (Grade 6, Goal 3; Grade 8, Goal 3)
- Metric Mastery (Grades 6-8, Competency Goal 1)
- Science Word
- Write It, Do It (Grades 6-8, Competency Goal 1)
Building/Engineering/Technology
- Beam (Grades 6-8, Goal 2)
- Balloon Launch Glider (Grades 6-8, Goal 2)
- Egg-O-Naut (Grades 6-8, Goal 2)
- Mission Possible (Grades 6-8, Goal 2, Grade 7, Goal 6)
- Storm the Castle(Grades 6-8, Goal 2, Grade 7, Goal 6)
- Tower (Grades 6-8, Goal 2)
- Wheeled Vehicle (Grades 6-8, Goal 2; Grade 7, Goal 6)
High
School Division C Events
Life Sciences
- Designer Genes (Biology, Goal 3)
- Disease Detectives (Biology, Goal 4)
- Ecology (Biology, Goal 5, AP Environmental Science Goals 4,5)
- Entomology (Biology, Goal 4)
- Forestry (AP Environmental Science, Goal 4)
- Health Science (Biology, Goal 4)
Physical Sciences
- Circuit Lab (Physical Science, Goal 4; Physics, Goal 8; AP Physics, Goal 4)
- Food Science
- Forensics (Chemistry, Goal 2)
- Physics Lab (Physics, Goal 3; AP Physics B, Goal 2)
- Sounds of Music (Physical Science, Goal 3; Physics, Goal 7)
- Storm the Castle (Numerous Physical Science/Physics Goals)
Earth/Environmental and Space Sciences
- Astronomy (Earth/Environmental Science, Goal 6)
- Oceanography (Earth/Environmental Science, Goals 2, 4, 5)
- Remote Sensing (Earth/Environmental Science, Goal 1)
- Rocks and Minerals (Earth/Environmental Science, Goal 2)
Inquiry/Nature of Science
- Experimental Design (All Sciences, Goal 1)
- Fermi Questions (All Sciences, Goal 1)
- Write It/Do It (All Sciences, Goal 1)
Building/Engineering/Technology
- Boomilever (Numerous Physical Science/Physics Goals)
- Bottle Rocket Build and Blast Off (Numerous Physical Science/Physics Goals)
- Flying Bird (Numerous Physical Science/Physics Goals)
- Mission Possible (Numerous Physical Science/Physics Goals)
- Robot Ramble (Numerous Physical Science/Physics Goals)
- Scrambler (Numerous Physical Science/Physics Goals)
- Wright Stuff (Numerous Physical Science/Physics Goals)
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