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What are some effective ways to prevent your hovercraft from turning 90 degrees halfway through the run and getting stuck? New idea (also untested in competition, but I've personally seen it have a strong effect) - try adding a sail to the Hovercraft. I'm talking just a simple, paper triangle + pop...

I wouldn't say sig figs are super important in physics events... I wouldn't take off points for them, and the only tests that have very explicitly stated they would. I think there's a different mentality between chem and physics for sig figs. Seconded. I tell students to just use a reasonable numbe...

I don't know where Ithaca went, but that's another one to look out for (They're in Gratiot, so probably somewhere south, maybe Lansing area). We got a new coach this year, so things are pretty different and we don't get the same info that we have gotten before. Region 11 (the Lansing area) is getti...

I don't know much about Region 3 either

I would assume that it is somewhat less competitive than Regions 12 and 11, though, based on state tournament results.

Thermodynamics exam score distribution has been added to the folder shared with teams. Unfortunately, we do not have the raw scores for the Optics test, so I cannot make a histogram for it (which is a shame - I wanted to see them since I wrote the test!).

Allendale Results (C) 1. Forest Hills Central Green (96) 2. Ann Arbor Huron Gold (157) 3. Allendale Red (175) 4. Plymouth Christian (205) 5. Hamilton (208) 6. West Ottawa Black (238) For comparison's sake, I superscored the results of the Region 12 teams that usually get in the top 6 at regionals: 1...

And another update...on our website we have posted tests (except ecology and with pending updates on dynamic)! https://www.umichscioly.org/ -> 2018 Results -> Tests (or Final Rankings) -> https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/17wYpjKf1NpBbeLhlGmPR6aA8ovBVlIU- Please share with others! I'll als...

Thank you so much for all your efforts in running this invitational so smooth and also publishing these valuable histograms. For events like ThermoDynamics, Optics, and Hovercraft, where the theory and device testing scores are normalized, histograms are not that helpful. Would it be possible to pu...

I did not realize that there could be any legal ramifications. The last thing you want to do is expose the University to any legal issues. I completely understand! Yeah, like most things in law, it's complicated :?: It never really crossed our minds to look into it this year until after the competi...

Forgive me if I'm not grasping the full situation, but can't you match up the histograms with the event placements for the most part, to see roughly what raw scores other teams received? I don't think there's any problem with an invitational releasing full raw scores, at least to the individual tea...