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Well, I am looking to see what national organizers think of this... since behavior and ethics matter to scientists and those teaching young scientists. I am writing about the WIDI competition for Div B for our state competition 2 weeks ago. At state, for WIDI, our event team came out of the event vi...

Your coach is a wise, wise person! (LOL) Seriously, allowing some teams to have caps or thermometers, while others don't really penalizes the teams that respect and follow the rules. At our regionals, I will be applying a 5 point penalty for every piece of equipment found in the kits that is not on...

Thank you very much. I thought the tubes would be OK but was wondering about the caps. If you say the tubes are OK, we will proceed WITHOUT caps. The caps come with the tubes and are sure not necessary. Glad that you are strict about the rules. At regional, there were students with test tube clamps ...

Thank you to all who responded. But there were questions about temperature and nearly all the other teams had thermometers. In looking at our state website, there were no rules clarifications posted. We are really thinking that we needed to ask the event supervisor for one... and that is why they l...

I am sorry but I simply cannot find the way to post a new topic so hope you won't mind me asking this here. The rules say that test tubes are allowed (for students to bring) as well as spot plates, well plates, reaction plates, beakers or similar small containers for mixing. I wanted to make sure th...

Thank you to all who responded. But there were questions about temperature and nearly all the other teams had thermometers. In looking at our state website, there were no rules clarifications posted. We are really thinking that we needed to ask the event supervisor for one... and that is why they lo...

Thanks so much. We will look to see if there was something we missed.

Brand new to this forum and SO. So sorry if I should have posted this someplace else - can't find the "New Topic" button. :) Coach said to take the rules very literally and so we did at regional. Nowhere on the list of what "students may bring" was a thermometer. Coach taught us ...