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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 - ...

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...

For alumni who went on to coach teams, how did you go about contacting teams/starting to help out?

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...

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 ...

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...

Giantpants 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)

pascioly.org/sounds
That's what nationals will be using too.

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...

Academic decathlon (and my team hates me for it )

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...