Compute This B

[hpfananu]

I don't know if this is the same as software but I'm pretty sure we get a choice between a Mac or a PC.

As to software, you should be using Microsoft Excel, right?

And I have no idea about Mac vs. PC, or even Linux (I don't think they'll make you use that...)

By the type of software, I meant the version (year) of Word/Excel, and I.E./Firefox/Chrome. It says in the rules manual that the tournament director should post the info at least 30 days before the competition.

I sent in a clarification yesterday. I think last year they posted it around this time but I wasn't on the event so I'm not sure.
I think they'll have 07 hopefully...maybe not 10 but at least 07.

[stephritz929]

Oh no...if we can't use a Mac or Excel 10..............I'm not sure how similar 07 and 10 are to each other but if they're a lot different....we're screwed. We've been practicing and gotten so familiar with Excel 10

[number_cruncher]

Excel 07 & Excel 10 are very similar. The main difference is the print functions, but graphing, data table & calcs are all similar.

Paste functions are also different. You really have to watch the "auto-fill" paste in Excel '10. It can mess you up.

[number_cruncher]

From the science olympiad national tournament website

Compute This – Division B




Description: This event integrates Personal Computing (PC) technology, the Internet, and quantitative data analysis. Teams are presented with a problem that requires quantitative data capture from the public Internet and the organization and presentation of data in a graphical format. Short answer questions related to the problem are also included. Event Resources

Event Staff:

Location: Engineering Building I, Room 257 (ENGR-257)

Room Details: Computer lab with tables and computers. Computers have Office 2010, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access. Includes IE9 and Google Chrome.

[stephritz929]

phew! thank you! i hope these are the same for states! Fridayyyy

[AlphaTauri]

From PA SO's website:

March 19, 2012 - To All Coaches:
From Campus Technology Services - For Compute This in vL - 2073 you have a choice of using a Mac or PC operating system. For the Mac it is OS 10.6 with Office 2011 and for the PC it is Windows 7 and Office 2010.
For Protein Modeling in vL - 1090 the computers are all PC's running Windows 7 and Office 2010.

From what I personally remember (this is from two years ago, mind you), some of the computers in vL-2073 are slower than molasses. Hopefully they've rectified that by now, because we started 20 minutes late, which resulted in many of us either having to leave early or being late for our next events, because the previous group had had computer problems...

[Lady Epidemic]

Anyone in Ohio going to States:
Compute This is requiring that everyone competing send in the name, date of birth, and email address OF EACH KID in order to compete. I think it's wrong that they're asking personal information of kids, but anyway, just wanted to warn everyone in case their coaches didn't get the memo that the info is supposed to be out at the earliest, preferably tonight. Thanks!
(Good luck on Saturday, by the way)

[chalker]

Anyone in Ohio going to States:
Compute This is requiring that everyone competing send in the name, date of birth, and email address OF EACH KID in order to compete. I think it's wrong that they're asking personal information of kids, but anyway, just wanted to warn everyone in case their coaches didn't get the memo that the info is supposed to be out at the earliest, preferably tonight. Thanks!
(Good luck on Saturday, by the way)

I suspect this is an OSU policy that couldn't be gotten around. This is the first I've heard of it, and I'll get more details in the morning, but I do know that the campus wide IT group has really clamped down recently on wide open access to anyone. So the tradeoff is likely either don't run the event, or issue individual accounts to all the competitors based upon some unique identifying information.

[mnstrviola]

Am I right to say that Compute This is not coming back next year?

[jcreeps27]

I just got back from our States in PA. I did compute this and we found all of the information with all of the URL's and graph titles and everything. I was so excited for a medal. Turned out that we saved the graphs to the right place but not the Word document, so we got dead last . O well, I'll redeem myself at Nationals.