CVMS Science Olympiad Team- Event Info
- Anatomy
- Awesome Aquifers
- Battery Buggy
- Bottle Rocket
- Can’t Judge a Powder
- Compute This
- Disease Detectives
- Dynamic Planet
- Ecology
- Experimental Design
- Fossils
- Junkyard Challenge
- Meteorology
- Microbe Mission
- Optics
- Ornithology
- Road Scholar
- Science Crime Busters
- Shock Value
- Solar System
- Storm the Castle
- Towers
- Write It Do It
- Useful Links
Disease Detectives
This event requires students to apply principles of epidemiology to a published report of a real-life health situation or problem.
Online games
There are two online games that teach about investigation of an outbrake.
Free Textbook
If you are interested in more information about epidemiology, the CDC has an excellent free textbook online. It can be downloaded from the CDC. Chapter 1 is a good introduction to epidemiology. You can skip Chapter 2, you should already know what a histogram is from Math classes. Chapter 3 it is the most important and it review how to calculate risk, morbidity and mortality. Each year the regional and state competitionhere have several questions on these topics . You do not need Chapter 4. Chapter 5 and 6 have more detail that you need but give you a good idea about surveillance and how to investigate an outbreak. The glossary at the end of the book it is very useful to learn the terminology we will be using.