A good tournament would not have PT sign in slots every 4 minutes! Maybe 10, but 12-15 is better. That allows the pair to come in, to ask any questions and get settled in. Then, the four minutes of the word list. After that, the pair leaves and the supervisors (two minimum, three better) have a coup...
Jeff's right... Do the right thing. SO rules state that the device needs to be made by someone(s) on the 15-person team. Not a parent, coach, or someone on another team in the same school.
Well, mosquitoes buzz, beetles click and chirp and buzz (lower than a skeeter's high pitched whine) and nutria (depending on source you read) make a sound like a cow or pig.
Had to face this a few times. I have four kids that have done or are doing SO. Kid #1: Did C as 9th grader Kid #2: Did C as an 8th grader (with 5 events) Kid #3: Did C as an 8th grader (again, 5 events) Kid #4: Doing B as 9th grader A lot of the determinants are based on individual situations (make ...
Right, we've got a few old "Type 2" glasses in our team box that just don't get used. Don't know where they came from... seems like it makes sense to just buy B's and C's and then tell the kids that anything is an A.
One thing our PT team did was to look at the rules, identify what could be interpreted in different ways and then come up with a list of questions to ask the supervisor. They split them up, memorized them, and before competing asked their questions. It's also good to make sure that you are practicin...
We've tried to avoid things that look like symbols but someone could argue everything is a symbol, right. Instead of crossing out something, consider scribbling it out or just use an arrow (allowable) to focus on the right thing.
Yup good idea! Share it with your partners - you want each of the three of you to have the same vocabulary. That way, if you are the sketcher and you see something that you know the other two most likely know, you give it a good try. If you see a word that you don't know, chances are they don't know...
I honestly think those terms are way too hard for this event. Just some April Fool's Day fun for our team. Yes, way too hard. We did over an hour of appropriate words (fulcrum, iron oxide, cumulus), then this list! They each sketched an easy word (moon, root, star) and then came these words that no...
And in a half hour, we're having an APRIL 1 Picture This practice. I decided to make a list that starts easy (so each sketcher thinks "Oh, piece of cake") and then gets difficult: Root Moon Star Borborygmi Syzygy Predictions Ribazuba Human Alpha 7 Acetylcholine Receptor Quisquilious Pneumo...
[aditi] wrote:There are also tie-breakers for the number of words consecutively answered correctly...That's what made us miss a first place at Wright State!
Bummer - but that's how it goes! Sounds like you did a terrific job.
