More than 7,000 students, educators and parents will meet on the UW-Madison campus for the 27th annual National Science Olympiad Tournament May 18-21.
At the tournament, 120 winning middle school and high school teams from state-level competitions will meet for engineering and science competitions as well as workshops on topics like stem cells, human anatomy and immunology.
The competitions, which are open to the public, include identifying a perpetrator using crime scene investigation science and constructing a rubber-powered mechanical flying bird with the goal of keeping it in the air the longest.
The Olympiad's opening and closing ceremonies, which will feature UW-Madison professors Bassam Shakhashiri and Clint Sprott as ""showmen of science,"" are free and open to the public.
Many of the events will be held at the new Union South and Wisconsin Institute for Discovery.
