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Entrepreneurship
Refers to owning, organizing, and managing your own business by providing a necessary product or service.

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Culinary Arts
The creative practice of cooking. One who engages in the culinary arts, or a culinarian, is either called a cook or a chef depending on their level of expertise.

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Music Composition
The science or art of arranging music by ordering tones or sounds in succession, in combination or in temporal relationships to produce a composition having unity and continuity.

Original Essay
A brief examination of a subject in prose usually expressing a personal view or interpretation of a subject or topic.

Playwriting
A literary composition developed for the stage.

Poetry—Written
A composition, marked by language chosen for its sound, beauty and evocative power.

Short Story
A brief examination of a subject in prose usually expressing a personal view or interpretation of a subject or topic.

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Dance: Ballet
To perform a series of rhythmic and highly technical patterned bodily movements usually performed to music using grace and precision.

Dance: Contemporary
To perform a series of rhythmic and technical patterned bodily movements usually performed to music.

Dance: Modern
To perform a series of rhythmic and patterned bodily movements usually performed to music that focuses on the dancer’s interpretations using their emotions and moods to develop choreography.

Dance: Traditional
To perform a series of rhythmic and patterned bodily movements usually performed to music to reflect the life of the people of a certain region or country.

Dramatic Arts: Acting
The art of staging or acting plays.

Music: Instrumental—Classical
The art of performing with a device used to produce music with tones of the late 18th and 19th centuries characterized by an emphasis on balance, clarity, and moderation.

Music: Instrumental—Contemporary
The art of performing with a device used to produce music with the tones of the present.

Music: Vocal—Classical
The art of performing with the human voice rhythmic tones or sounds of the late 18th and 19th centuries characterized by an emphasis on balance, clarity, and moderation.

Music: Vocal—Contemporary
The art of performing with the human voice rhythmic tones or sounds to produce music with the tones of the present.

Oratory
The art of effective written, and oral presentation to persuade or inform. (This is not a dramatic presentation.)

Poetry—Performance
An original poem or prose, written by the contestant, performed as a monologue or exchange involving extemporization.

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Architecture
Plans for and models of structures and outdoor spaces.

Biology/Microbiology
The science of life or of the origin, structure, reproduction, growth and development of living organisms collectively.

Chemistry/Biochemistry
The science that deals with the composition, structure and properties of chemical processes and phenomena of substances and the transformation that they undergo.

Computer Science
The science that deals with the theoretical aspects of computers including storage and the transformation of data using computers.

Earth And Space Sciences
The body of sciences that include geology, mineralogy, physiographic, oceanography, meteorology, climatology, astronomy, speleology, seismology, geography, etc.

Engineering
Projects that directly apply scientific principles to manufacturing and practical uses.

Mathematics
The science of numbers and their operations, interrelations, combinations, generalizations, and abstractions of spaced con gurations and their structure. Development of formal logical systems or various numerical and algebraic computations and the application of these principles.

Medicine And 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.

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Drawing
The art of representing forms and figures on a surface by means of lines executed by hand or computer (digital) 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, or hand and/or the manipulation of digital processes with a computer.

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.