Science Olympiad at UPenn 2018 Invitational

[pb5754]

When I was stacking, I added up LASA's scores and got 185 points, but the scoresheet says 162? Anybody know why?

This is also happening for some other events. I just re-added the event placings and I'm getting different values than the final score in the results.

Yeah I got that as well...

Maybe the scores are added wrong?????
Also, if you download the csv file, WWP South's hovercraft placement seems to be missing.

[Synaptic_Cleft]

Yea rocks and minerals wasn’t counted towards team scores because some people ended up moving samples around

[pb5754]

Yea rocks and minerals wasn’t counted towards team scores because some people ended up moving samples around

and why did the ESs allow that??

[Raven]

Yea rocks and minerals wasn’t counted towards team scores because some people ended up moving samples around

and why did the ESs allow that??

Okay, I made another sheet without the rocks scores, you can access it if you go to the bottom of the spreadsheet.

[GoldenKnight1]

Yea rocks and minerals wasn’t counted towards team scores because some people ended up moving samples around

and why did the ESs allow that??

They were told not to but managing 30 stations can be difficult. It would have been better if the samples them had a label on them.

[pb5754]

Was LASA stacked???

[Ashernoel]

Rocks wasn’t scored because someone on our B team told the supervisor that the rocks had been moved around within each station. The supervisors interpreted this as, “I have moved Rocks from station to station,” so then they slashed the ID portion from all tests (90/200 points or something) and tiered him to last place, in a study event, lol. Also the grading was weird because the score for our other team in the test packet was far from the score on ezra, even without ID.

[Synaptic_Cleft]

No, there were also rocks that ended up at the wrong station unfortunately. The labeling idea is a good one for future tournaments!

[JT880]

Congratulations to LASA for completely dominating and to everyone else that competed at UPenn yesterday! I thought that I'd post a view of my event reviews here:

Hovercraft (21) - Pretty good test! Probably a bit easier than the MIT test but definitely up there in terms of difficulty. I do wish there were a couple more fluid dynamics questions on there but nonetheless I was pleased with the test quality. The track was pretty well-made; our device just wasn't working properly so that's why we screwed up. Overall an A-

Mousetrap Vehicle (5) - Nothing much to say here other than this event was easily the highlight of my day. I thought that this event was run very well and the proctors definitely knew what they were doing. Also, does anybody know how LASA did in this event? Overall an A+

Dynamic Planet (45) - Man, I did not think we did that bad on the test here. It was definitely a well-written test but I guess my teammate and I misunderstood part of the test while taking it (I'll have to look at the test myself when we have our next team meeting). I thought the conceptual questions were pretty good and that it thoroughly tested the topics listed out in the rules manual. Overall an A

Thermodynamics (39) - I thought this event was pretty mediocre in terms of how it was run. Both our team and our A team measured the temperature of the water to be a couple degrees off the initial temperature and the volumes were a little bit off. I'll cut them some slack though; this event and Hovercraft are probably the most difficult events to run properly, and it was definitely not as bad as it was at MIT. The test on the other hand was pretty hard and I wish that I had prepared more for it. Overall a B-

[Riptide]

Anyone know how many questions there were on the Fermi Test?