This year • Practice • Description
2016-2017
The 2016-2017 DeKalb Country Elementary Science Olympiad takes place Saturday, March 18, 2017, 8:00am–12:30pm, at Druid Hills Middle School, 3100 Mt Olive Dr, Decatur 30033.
- Event list
- Registration form
- Presentation to coaches 2015-2016, Dekalb County Elementary Science Olympiad Tournament (event overview)
Contact Suzi Wilkie at sns@juno.com .
Practice
Description
Sagamore sends up to 30 3rd–5th grade students to the DeKalb County Elementary Science Olympiad Tournament in March. Students challenge themselves to complete a variety of science events involving tests of knowledge and measurement skills.
Each student can choose up to 3 events (of about two-dozen) to participate in and can chose partners too. Examples of events include:
- Challenge (complete a task based on skills previously practiced): Metric Mastery, Mystery Architecture, Pentathlon, Picture This, Which Way’s North
- Knowledge (take a quiz about an event subject): Disease Detectives, Don’t Bug Me, Elements and Compounds, Grasp a Graph, Leaf and Tree Finder, No Bones About It, Rock Hound, Save Our Earth, Simple Machines, Starry Starry Night, Weather or Not, Wildlife Safari
- Bring or Make It (follow design guidelines to make something in advance or build a structure at the Tournament): Barge Building, Bridge Building, Can Race, Paddle Boats, Paper Rockets, Straw Egg Drop, Straw Tower, Water Rockets