Entrepreneurship
Owning, organizing, and managing a business by providing a needed product or service.
Competition Categories
Students compete locally in up to three of 33 categories, including STEM, Humanities, Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Business, and Culinary Arts. Local winners go on to compete with students from across the country at the National Competition.
Business
Hospitality Management
Demonstration of restaurant and foodservice industry knowledge through a business proposal for a new restaurant concept.
Humanities
Music Composition
The science or art of arranging music by ordering tones or sounds in succession and combination.
Original Essay
A brief examination of a subject in prose, usually expressing a personal view or interpretation.
Playwriting
A literary composition developed for the stage.
Poetry Written
A composition marked by language chosen for sound, beauty, and evocative power.
Short Story
A brief work of prose that uses character, setting, and plot to tell an original story.
Performing Arts
Dance Ballet
Rhythmic and highly technical patterned bodily movements performed with grace and precision.
Dance Contemporary
Rhythmic and technical patterned bodily movements usually performed to music.
Dance Modern
Movement focused on the dancer’s interpretation, emotions, moods, and choreography.
Dance Traditional
Rhythmic movements reflecting the life of people from a region or country to tell a story.
Dramatic Arts Acting
The art of staging or acting plays.
Music Instrumental Classical
Performance using an instrument with tones of the late 18th and 19th centuries.
Music Instrumental Contemporary
Performance using an instrument with the tones of the present.
Music Vocal Classical
Performance with the human voice using rhythmic tones of the classical tradition.
Music Vocal Contemporary
Performance with the human voice using the tones of the present.
Oratory
The art of effective written and oral presentation to persuade or inform.
Poetry Performance
An original poem or prose, written by the contestant and performed as a monologue or exchange.
S.T.E.M
Architecture
Plans for and models of structures and outdoor spaces.
Biology/Microbiology
The science of life, including the origin, structure, reproduction, growth, and development of organisms.
Chemistry/Biochemistry
The composition, structure, properties, and transformation of substances.
Computer Science
The theoretical aspects of computers, storage, and the transformation of data using computers.
Earth & Space
Sciences including geology, oceanography, meteorology, astronomy, seismology, geography, and related fields.
Engineering
Projects that directly apply scientific principles to manufacturing and practical uses.
Mathematics
The science of numbers, operations, relationships, formal logic, and applied computation.
Medicine & Health
The study of diseases and health of humans and animals.
Physics
Theories, principles, and laws governing energy and the effect of energy on matter.
Visual Arts
Drawing
Representing forms and figures on a surface by lines executed by hand or computer-generated processes.
Filmmaking
The art and process of making motion pictures.
Painting
Art created by applying pigment on a two-dimensional surface with a brush, knife, hand, or digital process.
Photography
The process, art, and technique of capturing images with an analog or digital camera.
Sculpture
The art of making three-dimensional forms or designs.
Culinary Arts
Culinary Arts
The creative practice of cooking. Students must attend a school with a Certified Culinary Arts Program.