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by matthew101802
February 17th, 2015, 7:00 pm
Forum: General Competition
Topic: Poorly Run Event Stories
Replies: 688
Views: 202546

Re: Poorly Run Event Stories

1) At Bio-Process Lab for Lisle, the whole test was off the internet with like 5 little modifications. Guess what test my dad gave me to study the morning of to fresh up on the material? The exact same test that was in the event. Also, the supervisor got locked out of the room before we started so w...
by matthew101802
February 8th, 2015, 6:31 pm
Forum: 2015 Build Events
Topic: Air Trajectory B/C
Replies: 573
Views: 173342

Re: Air Trajectory B/C

At my team's most recent invitational, we were almost tiered since the judge thought we had to have 4 DIFFERENT graphs for our graphs. We simply use one graph four times. Nowhere in section 6. c. does it state that all graphs must be different. The judge was under the implication that "Huh. Wha...
by matthew101802
December 7th, 2014, 9:16 am
Forum: 2015 Build Events
Topic: Air Trajectory B/C
Replies: 573
Views: 173342

Re: Air Trajectory B/C

My partner and I have a vertical piston design where the mass falls in a vertical pvc pipe pushing the air through another smaller pvc pipe in which we put the ping pong ball. however, it seems that the ball is getting launched prematurely; it leaves the pipe before the mass can fall the whole way....
by matthew101802
November 23rd, 2014, 8:14 am
Forum: Bridge Building B/C
Topic: Designs B/C
Replies: 200
Views: 61475

Re: Designs B/C

Apparently my bridge keeps swaying side to side when I build it. Any help on that? I don't have a picture ATM.
by matthew101802
June 3rd, 2014, 6:40 pm
Forum: Posting Games
Topic: three word story
Replies: 1301
Views: 161236

Re: three word story

a big school
by matthew101802
June 2nd, 2014, 7:31 pm
Forum: 2014 Lab Events
Topic: Write It Do It B/C
Replies: 99
Views: 40374

Re: Write It Do It B/C

GoofyFoofer wrote:For division B or C?
For B. At least, that's what I saw. Are we allowed to talk about the structure?
by matthew101802
May 31st, 2014, 12:54 pm
Forum: 2014 Lab Events
Topic: Write It Do It B/C
Replies: 99
Views: 40374

Re: Write It Do It B/C

ak12 wrote:About how complicated can write it do it structures get? Will they ever have over 50 pieces? We aren't really sure when to stop making our builds more complicated...
Dude, nats had over 60 I think.
by matthew101802
May 29th, 2014, 8:16 pm
Forum: 2014 Nationals
Topic: Swap Meet!
Replies: 65
Views: 26472

Re: Swap Meet!

I think we should start a competition to see who got the best deal in the swap meet. One of my teammates started off with no license plates and ended up with 4. Most (if not all) of his license plates were acquired through trading plastic slinkies and petoskey stones (the petoskey stones were provi...
by matthew101802
May 11th, 2014, 2:54 pm
Forum: Posting Games
Topic: word challenge >:D
Replies: 1986
Views: 186398

Re: word challenge >:D

electrolyte
by matthew101802
May 11th, 2014, 2:54 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Your Daily Random Comment
Replies: 28818
Views: 3795974

Re: Your Daily Random Comment

i burned my finger on a heat lamp at my state bathroom :)

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