Outreach

Outreach Day

What are we doing?

In an effort to increase interest in Science Olympiad and scientific inquiry in general, we are creating a day long workshop for students in teams that are form rural are, title I, or new Scioly schools.

UGA's Annual Outreach Day will occur on November 9th and hopes to improve the depth and quality of K-12 science education for students in the Athens community. 

Students will have the opportunity to explore scientific disciplines as well as our campus with their peers and teachers! 120 students across eight schools will be participating.

Outreach Day 2024 Workshop Descriptions

Towers Workshop: Groups A and B will be in Science Learning Center (SLC) 085 and groups C and D will be in SLC 285. We request you split your teams into groups of 3. Each group of 3 will get 3 types of balsa wood, poster board, push pins, X-Acto knife, gorilla glue, and wax paper. We will go over the basic construction of a tower for about 10 minutes and the students will have time to build a fully testable tower. We want your students to come into the workshop with a to scale design drawn out on graph paper that complies with the rules published by National Science Olympiad. Try to have them construct a tower with the least number of trusses. Remind them that they only have an hour to make the tower so try to keep it simple. If they do not finish, we will just not test them, and the students will take their incomplete build home to finish. 

Microbiology: Microscope stations to view tissue samples and certain microbes and a lesson on aseptic technique using Glo-Germ. Instruction will relate to Microbe Mission its topics dis in the rules.

Chemistry: Wet lab mimicking a chemistry lab event. We are still working on the details of the lab. Lab coats and goggles are required to enter the lab space. Students will need to have long sleeves and pants to participate. 

Entomology: Will be showing real samples of bugs in the species list provided on the NSO list and going over some instruction material from the  event rules.

Cadaver Lab: This is a lab that should NOT be attended if your students to not want to see organs. If they become too squeamish for the smell of formaldehyde or are unable to see preserved organs. This is a great opportunity for your Anatomy and Physiology students or pre med students to get a chance to see how a college dissection lab looks like and get to see a cadaver, which most undergrad students do not even get a chance to experience.