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iwonder wrote:There will be pi(e).

Much pie.

Are you referring to this: http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/th ... -be-pi-day ?

Quite a lot of upheaval on the MN Div. B scene - 4 different champions over the past 4 years. Hopefully the nationals placings continue to improve.

OMFG Congratulations to Chippewa Middle School for winning the Division B state tournament in their first year of resurrecting their team!

hmath729 wrote:How many teams will be at SoCal state?

According to the note at the bottom of http://www.socalstatescioly.org/?tab=event, there will be 30 teams per division at SoCal state.

How many teams from each state get to go to nationals? Each state automatically receives one national tournament invitation for each division. States with the highest registration numbers by division are then awarded a second national tournament invitation, up to a total of 60 teams per division. C...

FueL wrote:Where are they posted?

http://scienceolympiad2014.com/schedule_master.html
Click the Division B Schedule and Division C Schedule tabs.

If most classes at your college are either M/W or T/Th, one potential solution to the losing-too-many-Mondays problem could be to make some Tuesdays follow the Monday class schedule, thereby equalizing the number of days of the M/W classes with the number of days of the T/Th classes.

Carroll and Ostlie is a very good textbook for advanced astro (I <3 C/O), however it is quite expensive -- like all college textbooks -- and not essential for what we do in astro. You can get by completely fine with just the internet; if you're looking for "fundamentals", check out colleg...

What's a good way to get the rest of your team motivated to do their best? Establish a culture of high expectations from everyone on the team for everyone on the team. At Mounds View, for the last three years I was there, everyone on the team wanted to do well (and worked their butt off to do well)...

Do you guys know what place Solon Middle School got at nationals the year before they first won in 2008? Well, they didn't even make it to nationals in 2007. Just think about that for a second. People think that Solon has been such a powerhouse in the past few years that they forget that every team...