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- June 10th, 2021, 6:19 am
- Forum: SSSS & SEC
- Topic: Scioly.org Monthly Event Challenges: May 2021
- Replies: 8
- Views: 8268
Re: Scioly.org Monthly Event Challenges: May 2021
Event Feedback For each event, I'll be ranking it based on difficulty (with higher being more difficult), length (with higher being longer), and overall (with higher being better). Difficulty and length are more of my personal opinions about the event, and they don't necessarily reflect the overall...
- March 9th, 2021, 10:26 am
- Forum: 2021 Regionals & States
- Topic: Southern California 2021
- Replies: 56
- Views: 21899
- March 8th, 2021, 3:29 am
- Forum: 2021 Regionals & States
- Topic: Southern California 2021
- Replies: 56
- Views: 21899
Re: Southern California 2021
How did everyone like the test quality at regionals? Circuit lab was too easy imo, but the questions were cool. Codebusters was pretty bad, the length of the text was way too long. Machines test was nice but probably too short. Cybersecurity test was amazing, really fun test with a good spread of t...
- February 26th, 2021, 9:25 pm
- Forum: 2021 Study Events
- Topic: Geologic Mapping C
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6504
Re: Geologic Mapping C
Hello! Sorry for the late response but I do have a question, for apparent dips or strenonets, the problems can onlt be done using protractors, or paper with the diagrams for streronets, since we are having an online test, how would application problems for this work? I am not sure if teams will be ...
- February 19th, 2021, 2:57 pm
- Forum: 2021 Study Events
- Topic: Geologic Mapping C
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6504
Re: Geologic Mapping C
Hey! Thank you so much for your response! It is extremely detailed and I really appreciate it! Personally, we are not entirely sure how much we would be using books for this event, and would definitely benefit a lot more than online resources/videos that we can use. I would definitely read the book...
- February 5th, 2021, 6:56 pm
- Forum: 2021 Lab Events
- Topic: Cybersecurity C [Possible mini SO, Satellite SO Replacement]
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5490
Re: Cybersecurity C [Possible mini SO, Satellite SO Replacement]
I'm thinking about doing some coaching for a Cybersecurity team going to BirdSO. It's interesting that the rules allow competitors to use several programming languages, but there's a potential for speed and memory constraints. That greatly incentivises certain languages, probably in the order of C ...
- January 1st, 2021, 1:50 am
- Forum: 2021 Study Events
- Topic: Codebusters C
- Replies: 27
- Views: 15144
Re: Codebusters C
Thanks for the help guys. Also, are xenocrypts worth it if you don’t have a native spanish speaker? One of my team mates is pretty good at spanish(he got a 5 on ap and started learning in elementary) but he keeps saying that it’s still too hard for him
- December 30th, 2020, 9:38 pm
- Forum: 2021 Study Events
- Topic: Codebusters C
- Replies: 27
- Views: 15144
Re: Codebusters C
Anyone have tips on solving the baconian? I can do easy ones where there's just two characters, but I have no clue on the ones where it's just a mash of characters.
- December 28th, 2020, 12:58 pm
- Forum: 2021 Invitationals
- Topic: Science Olympiad at MIT Invitational 2021
- Replies: 42
- Views: 19252
Re: Science Olympiad at MIT Invitational 2021
Is experimental design going to have the written test or just the design part?
- December 27th, 2020, 2:32 pm
- Forum: SSSS & SEC
- Topic: Scioly.org Monthly Event Challenges: December 2020
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5585
Re: Scioly.org Monthly Event Challenges: December 2020
For Algorithms and Heuristics, do we email our starting time ahead of time or right before we start?