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The Michigan State WS 1st place was 2:42. The ceiling height is 21' 3.5'', length 151'11'', with 66'. The 2nd place was 1:50 with one dime bonus (= 2:45). Since the team flying without dime received more wing coloring bonus (162 x 0.1 = 16.2; the one flying with one dime received wing coloring bonu...

What kinds of times have the Freedom Flight kit planes been getting?

Is rosewood required for a quality marimba, or can other woods be substituted with equal sound quality? I didn't want to spend a fortune buying rosewood so I used Maple and I think the sound quality is good. The only thing I didn't like about it though was that the grain of the wood was pretty vari...

I finally hit 2 minutes!!!!

Is putting a hinge in the middle of a marimba in order to make it fit through a door an "alteration" (rule 3d)?

yea! It wasn't too bad. Most of the identifying was actual specimens. There was some really random questions though like "true/false: Abe Lincoln used this tree to make fence posts?" Also it was a little tight on time but that could change depending on how well you know your trees (I don't...

I see you guys have forgotten Michigan? This goes back to my original point - everyone, I think, can claim that every state is competitive. All I know about Michigan is that Grand Haven goes pretty much every year. Is it competitive in the regional and state competitions? All I know is it has the s...

I just had an invite where we had 12 stations with 3 minutes each. There were 2 stations of matching general terms and flower parts and the rest was identifying specimens and answering questions about them.

Is is OK for states to put a bunch of trees on the state list that aren't on the national list? The rules say "All questions will be restricted to specimens on the Official National Tree List." Just wondering because the Michigan list has about 20 extra trees that aren't on the national li...

Thanks for the advice! My partner and I are still trying to figure out what we will build but I think it would definitely be unique!