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we build about 75 devices a year.

yes, thank you. I found it late last night. I'm wondering which 18 they are doing since those events don't add up to 18.

the official rules say there is a chart online at soinc that will say which events are for a mini so, but I can't find it.

any idea which 18 events? that site still has 23.

any guesses what they meant by this one?

"The boomilever may not thrust back against the wall during loading"

doesn't a free body diagram show that's impossible?

What a great event! I’m blown away that you can get that many college kids up that early on a Saturday to volunteer! There were some hiccups but I was very very impressed with how they handled them. To me good leadership is really judged by how you handle things going wrong and do you respond in a p...

You can't have college grad coaches?


I hear what you guys are saying, but they were saying the same things 20 years ago.

yeah, maybe scientists, but I manage a group of mechanical electrical chemical and civil engineers at a chemical plant and nothing we do is metric. I have recruited a bunch of them to help teach events and man this frustrates them! and as I'm reminded every time I buy stuff for Olympiad not much in ...

Anyone have insight into why all of Olympiad uses the metric system exclusively? This doesn't seem to reflect the real world very well, at least not for any of the industries I've worked in. It's especially frustrating on builds where they use 30cm to approximate a foot. Except its NOT a foot. So to...

make the front axle a piece of allthread, put a wingnut on it and something that keeps it from rotating all the way around (can be the body of the vehicle or a string/piece of wire)