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- June 11th, 2021, 7:59 am
- Forum: General Competition
- Topic: Advise for Elevated Bridge
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3164
Re: Advise for Elevated Bridge
Easiest place to start is materials.. Get your wood from https://specializedbalsa.com/. They have very good consistency (you can specify densities, grains etc). Glue - use medium cyanoacrylate (medium is easier to use, cyano is the best kind). I also recommend wearing tight nitrile gloves. Knives - ...
- February 3rd, 2021, 9:51 am
- Forum: 2021 Invitationals
- Topic: Science Olympiad at MIT Invitational 2021
- Replies: 42
- Views: 19251
Re: Science Olympiad at MIT Invitational 2021
I will add that, from my experience, Scilympiad's format made many question types (ie drawing graphs) borderline impossible. The only real alternative was having students submit drawn-answers via a separate medium (ie as done in Experimental Design), but that presented other challenges with uploadin...
- April 8th, 2020, 7:06 pm
- Forum: Alumni
- Topic: New Coaches
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3205
New Coaches
For alumni who went on to coach teams, how did you go about contacting teams/starting to help out?
- March 7th, 2020, 8:06 pm
- Forum: 2020 Nationals
- Topic: 2020 National Tournament: North Carolina State University
- Replies: 172
- Views: 54511
Re: 2020 National Tournament: North Carolina State University
This is complete speculation, but it may be possible that the state sends the team with the lowest score across any regional competition in their state. This has never happened with scioly, but I personally experienced it with a different competition last year. Last year, it was a snowstorm that pr...
- March 7th, 2020, 8:00 am
- Forum: 2020 Nationals
- Topic: Way Too Early Predictions
- Replies: 146
- Views: 52339
Re: Way Too Early Predictions
Re: Southern California 2020 Post by bearasauras » Sat Mar 07, 2020 12:24 am We have been working closely with the Caltech administration and with the current coronavirus (COVID-19) situation, Caltech has advised us to cancel this year’s SoCal State Science Olympiad Tournament. We respect Caltech’s ...
- February 10th, 2020, 10:14 pm
- Forum: 2020 Lab Events
- Topic: Sounds of Music C
- Replies: 81
- Views: 31598
Re: Sounds of Music C
At Centerville, the Sounds ES used Audacity to isolate the fundamental frequency with a Fourier transform and used that to determine the cents off of everyone's instruments rather than something like pascioly or a phone tuning app which takes the overtones into consideration. I was wondering if any...
- January 30th, 2020, 11:13 am
- Forum: 2020 Lab Events
- Topic: Sounds of Music C
- Replies: 81
- Views: 31598
Re: Sounds of Music C
pascioly.org/soundsGiantpants wrote: ↑January 30th, 2020, 11:09 am Sorry if this has already been answered somewhere, what software was used for instrument testing at MIT? Always nice to find out how our instrument would fare with varying software (although ideally it shouldn’t change at all lol)
That's what nationals will be using too.
- January 30th, 2020, 10:40 am
- Forum: 2020 Lab Events
- Topic: Sounds of Music C
- Replies: 81
- Views: 31598
Re: Sounds of Music C
Some clarification abt MIT sounds. Apparently our proctor at MIT just doesn’t know how to work a usb microphone because I tested using the same microphone that they’re using at nats and it picked up from a foot away. Maybe the proctor didn’t actually connect to the microphone and was using his inte...
- June 15th, 2019, 2:02 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Extracurricular Thread
- Replies: 67
- Views: 18611
Re: Extracurricular Thread
Academic decathlon (and my team hates me for it )
- June 14th, 2019, 4:07 pm
- Forum: 2019 Nationals
- Topic: Best Teams That Didn't Make Nats
- Replies: 21
- Views: 10225
Re: Best Teams That Didn't Make Nats
Div C: 1) WWPN (Amazing at UPenn, very volatile states and barely lost, had momentum from last year’s nats) 2) Centerville (3rd place to two top 4 teams; fairly strong invites performances) 3) Camas (momentum from last year’s nats, looked strong but had very questionable 1 point loss at states due t...