Events (2026)
Here is a complete list of all Division C events this year, along with a short description. A comprehensive description of all of these events can be found in the Division C Rules Manual under Resources.
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LIFE, PERSONAL & SOCIAL SCIENCE
Disease Detectives
Students will use investigative skills in the scientific study of disease, injury, health and disability in populations or groups of people.
Designer Genes
Teams will answer questions, solve problems, and analyze data pertaining to classic, evolutionary, and molecular genetics.
Remote Sensing
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Entomology
Students will be asked to identify insects and selected immature insects by order and family, answer questions about insects, and use or construct a dichotomous key.
Water Quality
Students will be assessed on their understanding and evaluation of freshwater aquatic environments.
EARTH & SPACE SCIENCE
Astronomy
Teams will demonstrate an understanding of Stellar Evolution: Star Formation & Exoplanets.
Dynamic
Planet
Participants will demonstrate an understanding of the processes involving the cryosphere of the Earth including glaciers and other ice formations and processes.
Remote Sensing
Participants will use remote sensing imagery, data, and computational process skills to complete tasks related to climate change processes in the Earth system.
Rocks and Minerals
Teams will 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.
PHYSICAL SCIENCE & CHEMISTRY
Air
Trajectory
Prior to the competition, teams will design, construct, and calibrate a single device capable of launching projectiles onto a target and collect data regarding device parameters and performance.
Chem
Lab
Teams will complete one or more tasks and answer a series of questions involving the science processes of chemistry focused in the areas of Periodicity and Equilibrium.
Forensics
Given a scenario and some possible suspects, students will perform a series of tests. These tests, along with other evidence or test results, will be used to solve a crime.
Materials Science
Teams will complete lab activities and answer a series of questions related to the materials science of ceramics with an emphasis on chemical and crystalline structure, and behavior.
Hovercraft
Prior to the competition, participants will design, construct, and calibrate a self-propelled air-levitated vehicle that moves down a track.
Circuit Lab
Participants must complete tasks and answer questions about electricity and magnetism.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
Electric Vehicle
Teams must design, build and test one vehicle that uses electrical energy as its sole means of propulsion to travel as quickly as possible and stop close to a Target Point.
Helicopter
Teams will construct, collect data on test flights, analyze and optimize a free flight rubber-powered helicopter to achieve maximum time aloft.
Wifi
Lab
Teams must construct an antenna device prior to the tournament that is designed to transmit/receive a signal at 2.4 GHz and complete a written test on the principles of electromagnetic wave propagation.
Robot
Tour
Teams design, build, program and test one Robotic Vehicle to navigate a track to reach a target at a set amount of time as accurately and efficiently as possible.
Boomilever
Teams will 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.
INQUIRY & NATURE OF SCIENCE
Bungee Drop
Team will design one elastic cord to conduct two separate drops at a given height(s) and attempt to get a drop mass, placed in a bottle, as close as possible to, but without touching, a landing surface.
Codebusters
Teams will cryptanalyze and decode encrypted messages using cryptanalysis techniques for historical and modern advanced ciphers.
Experimental
Design
This event will determine a participant's ability to design, conduct and report the findings of an experiment entirely on-site.
Engineering CAD
Teams will read a set of engineering drawings and collaborate to CAD parts in Onshape and then incorporate these parts with provided components to create an assembly.
TRIAL EVENTS
Aerial
Scramble
At the Tournament, teams will assemble, test, and fly up to two aircraft built on-site without using adhesives from unopened standardized model airplane kits.
Agricultural
Science
Participants will solve problems and answer questions about agricultural sciences using their knowledge of ecology, animal and plant biology, and environmental chemistry.
Botany
Participants will demonstrate their knowledge of plant life and general botany principles.
Cybersecurity
Competitors will be assessed on their knowledge of cybersecurity through hands-on tasks as well as theoretical questions focused in the areas of cryptography and web architecture.
Digital
Structures
Teams will design and test a Tower using SkyCiv structural analysis software that meets requirements specified in these rules to achieve the highest structural efficiency while withstanding multiple vertical and lateral loads.
Engineering
CAD
Teams will read a set of engineering drawings and collaboratively create CAD parts and assemblies that match the drawings while incorporating provided components and be able to answer questions about the drawing and generated model.
Home
Horticulture
Participants will use their investigative skills in the scientific study of home horticulture.
Mission
Possible
Prior to the competition, participants design, build, test, and document a Rube Goldberg®-like Device that completes required Start and Final Actions through a series of specific actions.
Solar
Power
Teams must construct a collecting device prior to the tournament that is designed to collect heat and complete a written test on alternative energy concepts.