Which Science Olympiad suits you?
The Science Olympiads are your chance to win friends, medals and even trips around the world by showing what your brain can do! Workshops, camps, exams and competitions - in ten different disciplines. There’s something for everyone and you get to choose your own adventure. You can’t make up your mind? Then take this personality quiz!
1) Which challenge seems the most fun to you?
A) Translating sentences from a language you don’t know based on a number of clues.
B) Convincing a jury of experts of your ideas with a well-argued essay or impressive presentation.
C) Programming a LEGO robot to pick up objects and move them to a specific spot.
D) Exploring a town you’ve never been to before and crafting a proposal on how to better develop the area around the train station.
E) Dissecting a crab and determining which genus it belongs to.
2) Your friend group is organizing a party. What’s your job?
A) Figuring out which venue would be the smallest distance from everyone’s home.
B) Experimenting with mixed drinks and colorful desserts.
C) Keeping an eye on the budget.
D) Starting conversations during the party by asking deep questions.
E) Inventing a machine that will clean up afterwards.
3) How would you most like to spend a week?
A) Exploring the Swiss National Park in Zernez.
B) Coding in the alps.
C) Studying my favorite subject in a camp in the countryside.
D) Striving for medals while proving my practical skills in well-equipped university laboratories.
E) I love learning, but a whole week at once is a bit much.
4) You have a bit of free time. What are you most likely to do?
A) Get lost in thought as I watch apples fall off trees.
B) Take a lesson on Duolingo.
C) Play a card game.
D) Listen to a podcast on investing.
E) Measure the pH value of my tap water to find out whether this is what has been killing my houseplants.
5) Where would you most like to travel?
A) Singapore or Taiwan
B) Australia or the Philippines
C) Turkey or the United Arab Emirates
D) France or Italy
E) Bolivia
6) Which of these basic concepts could you most confidently explain?
A) Natural Selection
B) Molecule
C) Algorithm
D) Gravity
E) Quadratic equation
7) Pick something for movie night!
A) Oppenheimer
B) Wall-E
C) Arrival
D) The Wolf of Wall Street
E) Dune
8) Which of these posters would you put up in your room?
A) The periodic table
B) A map of the world
C) A beautiful image made by the Hubble Space Telescope
D) An image of a fascinating fractal structure
E) I don’t need a poster on my wall, just a nice wallpaper for my laptop screen.
9) When eating out, what do you prioritize?
A) Locally sourced options for the climate
B) Vegan options for the animal ethics
C) Organic options for the biodiversity
D) Food served by an automaton
E) Dishes from diverse cultures
10) Which animal would be your mascot?
A) A penguin… or maybe a wolf?
C) An owl
D) A bull or a bear!
E) I’d prefer a machine
Key
A | B | C | D | E | |
1 | Linguistics | Economics + Philosophy | Robotics | Geography | Biology |
2 | Informatics | Chemistry | Economics | Philosophy | Robotics |
3 | Geography | Informatics | Physics + Mathematics | Chemistry + Biology | Economics + Philosophy + Linguistics |
4 | Physics | Linguistics | Mathematics | Economics | Biology + Chemistry |
5 | Robotics + Linguistics | Biology + Mathematics | Chemistry + Geography | Physics + Philosophy | Informatics |
6 | Biology | Chemistry | Informatics | Physics | Mathematics |
7 | Physics | Robotics | Linguistics | Economics | Geography |
8 | Chemistry | Geography | Physics | Mathematics | Informatics |
9 | Geography | Philosophy | Biology | Robotics | Linguistics |
10 | Mathematics | Informatics | Philosophy | Economics | Robotics |
If two disciplines are listed for one answer, you get a point for each.
Did you get some points for many of them?
Good news: it’s perfectly possible to participate in more than one Science Olympiad at the same time!