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I just came back from NYS states for mission possible. I was surprised at the fact that we had the 30 minute set up time the night before instead of right before the event. For most teams it shouldn't matter for the mission to sit through the night almost completely set up (theres only five minutes ...

Top 10 Teams and Scores:

1. F-M (153)
2. Ward Melville (197)
3. Columbia (349)
4. Spackenkill (376)
5. Syosset (390)
6. Kellenburg Memorial (424)
7. Niskayuna (425)
8. Brighton (453)
9. Maine-Endwell (454)
10. Webster Thomas (483)

I have a quick question for the state competition: the time is between 60 and 90 seconds, so one needs to have a time adjusting step.

Would it be okay to use the electric motor (which we use as an archimedes screw) to waste time (have it exceed 40 seconds)?

Everything in this thread has been covered in depth on the Photocell Bonus thread.....- -what is and is not considered as a "photocell -use of relays -how to hook it all up and make it work. Using a relay allows you to use pretty much whatever motor you want to. We're using a 12v computer cool...

Recently the motor that I used in conjunction with the photocell broke...it was a cooling fan from a laptop. Can the photocell only activate really small motors? (as in require a very small amount of voltage). What other motors have you used in the photocell step?

You can't have air from the outside connecting into your pneumatic system, an example is an open tube manometer (well maybe not for this event). As long as your pneumatic/hydraulic system is surrounded or enclosed completely and has no contact with anything outside the let's say "container"...

wow. didn't know that

i'm pretty sure its going to be pretty much the same as last year since they didn't even change the topic which is population growth btw lol no i mean diseases like influenza that might appear on tests. I don't know about other regions, but for NY some of the disease scenarios given resemble real l...

So...anyone got any ideas on what disease topics might be on this year's event?

ok thanks.