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Hello everyone! The fourth annual Division B Gopher Invitational will be on Saturday, January 6, 2018, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The tournament will take place on the Minneapolis campus of the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. All events are written and run by Science Olympiad alumni or experien...

What would be the best design to use for a glider? Does anyone have recommend a design to use? Hi, here are some designs you could look at. A basic, fairly easy-to-build design is the Flicka design. You can modify the online plans to try to improve it and to conform to scioly rules. The highest tim...

To prevent your glider from breaking on the first launch, make sure that you throw the glider horizontally before actually launching. That way you can tell if the glider is correctly balanced and if it's not, adjust accordingly by adding clay to the front or taking off nose weight. When you do your ...

Our first meeting is usually in September, but most people don't get event assignments until a bit later. Some of us work on events over the summer though.

elg4 wrote:Does anyone have information about the dimensions at nationals glider will be flying in?

On the nationals website it says the area is 38 feet tall. I don't know the floor area though.

Chippewa won! Their score was 32 points and Highview got 2nd with 50 points.

Crazy Puny Man wrote: Does this mean they released the overall results?

Yep! I don't think the results were released online but all of the coaches have them.

I'm not positive about this, but I think the topic changes every two years. Two years ago it was rivers and lakes, and I've heard rumors that next year the topic will be volcanic activity.

A lot of field guides have some anatomy diagrams, for sure at least the NWF book. If yours doesn't, you can find good diagrams on the entomology page on soinc.org. There are links to anatomy info and the training handout has diagrams in it.

Yep that's correct. Your turn!