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Scioly Summer Study Session 2017

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ALL ABOARD, ALL ABOARD. Welcome to another exciting year of SSSS! It’s our fifth anniversary this year, so we’re aiming to make it better than ever before. :)

Please read through all of this post. All details are in here and they are important.

SSSS will begin on June 1st, 2017 and continue through mid-August.

This event will be run similarly to previous years. You submit a resource, listed below, for one of the events scheduled for the 2017-2018 season. Once it is approved by an SSSS moderator, you gain access to all other resources submitted to SSSS! The resources are yours to use, but we ask that they are not shared with other people (including teammates) not in SSSS. Around August, when SSSS ends, these resources are uploaded to the wiki, test exchange, and image gallery. Builds are accepted.

Please note that any resources submitted may be uploaded to the wiki or test exchange at the end of the event, regardless of whether or not they were accepted. This is so as many resources as possible are available for other people to use and learn from.

Interested? Here are the logistics of participating in SSSS in detail:

1. Make a forum account if you don’t have one yet. Due to logistical reasons, we can only add users who are members of Scioly.org

2. There are multiple ways to get involved.
  • You can write a test with an answer key. This must be tournament quality and length.
  • You may submit notes for an event scheduled for 2017. The notes must be similarly extensive and at least 7,000 words long.
  • You may submit a set of images AND build plans for build events. There must be at least 3 images. They can be CAD or actual images.
  • You may submit a building guide for build events, like Aia’s Boomilever Guide. Guides must be a minimum of 1,000 words and include diagrams and clear, concise instructions. Tips are good as well.
All resources must be homemade. We ask that you submit them in PDF form. (Word and LibreOffice both have a feature for PDF exporting.) For a list of tentative 2018 events, please see here.

For events with lists of things to know, please use: New York 2017 Herpetology Rules and List, Rocks and Minerals 2014 Official List, Microbe Mission 2012 Official List.

3. Check the Test Exchange to find examples of tests that have been submitted by other users in the past. All tests that are sub-bullets of “SSSS 2016”, or other years, were past resources that have been accepted.

4. You email your resource to [email protected]. The email should be titled [Your Scioly.org username]’s [Name of Event] [Type of Resource: test, notes, plans, or guide]; for example, “mnstrviola’s Experimental Design Test”. The file(s) should be attached to the email, preferably in PDF format.

5. The moderators will look over your submission. If it is not approved, we will reply to the email with suggestions on issues and/or improvement. Our moderators will work with you to improve the quality of your submission until it is accepted. You should receive a response from within 5 days, but please remind us if necessary. When responding to an email, please click REPLY TO ALL. Failure to do so may cause confusion and delays in processing your submission.

6. Once accepted, you will be provided with details on how to access SSSS through your Scioly.org account.

SSSS will end sometime in August. For a list of tentative 2018 events, please see here. All resources will all be added to the Scioly.org wiki and Test Exchange unless the user requests otherwise. You MUST tell us beforehand if you do not wish to have your notes and/or tests uploaded publicly.
Much like last year, SSSS is opening up applications to be a moderator for the event. This is happening for several reasons:
 
1. We (mnstrviola and myself) are getting oooooooooold and no longer know all the bright eyed, bushy tailed Science Olympiad enthusiasts who aren’t yet in college.
2. We have had issues in the past covering some of our event bases. By opening up applications to the rest of the Scioly.org community, we hope to have better coverage and more in depth reviews.
3. Some of our traditional mods are also getting oooooooold and no longer have the energy or time to mod.
 
So here’s your chance! Be a mod! Fill out the [url=https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScYAatJeE0ZVCyFrikWQt35tO7EXUpSZl73aUbOjpTIJgztuQ/viewform?usp=sf_link]application[/url]. Moderators will be notified of their selection two to four days before SSSS begins to allow for maximum time for applications to come in.
Have any questions or comments? You can respond to this post, private message mnstrviola or foreverphysics, email foreverphysics at [email protected], or email the mods at [email protected].

Note: The SSSS is not a tournament. It is not meant to be a competitive event, but an unofficial study event to practice for the upcoming Science Olympiad season.
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foreverphysics wrote:For a list of events, please see https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A_34f4CZXbz0Z05Fm_zh758sCaCp6b68FsVc86gvWQ4/edit?usp=sharing
Astronomy topic is type II supernovae & stellar evolution - probably more accurately stated as "high-mass evolution" (the words I used when I asked at Nationals).
Chem Lab's second topic is Physical Properties
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next year, are the sub-topics of Chem Lab going to be thermo and physical properties for sure?
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summit wrote:next year, are the sub-topics of Chem Lab going to be thermo and physical properties for sure?
Technically it's not confirmed, but the Chem committee is not known for changing things much. The info comes from here, which reflects the thoughts of the rules committees at the time of publication.
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Thanks! Is the summer institute the first time/place that the sub-topics will be confirmed for all of the events? (I am also wondering about next year's focus on Remote Sensing)
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Should any DP tests be based on this list (https://ohso.osu.edu/sites/default/file ... 032717.pdf) or the list posted above as a Google doc?
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chscioly wrote:Should any DP tests be based on this list (https://ohso.osu.edu/sites/default/file ... 032717.pdf) or the list posted above as a Google doc?
That chart is the most recent - didn't notice that Glaciers was listed on the Google doc so I didn't mention it in my post above. Tectonics is the planned topic for 2018 as far as we know.
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What about topics for Solar System or Potions and Poisons? Should I go with the topics last used (if I was to do notes for one of these) or a general overview? (probably both tbh)
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Predicting the Solar Sys topic seems troubling, but P&P is pretty straightforward. The potions half is standard chemistry material, and the poisons half, well...I'd work from recent trial rules (sections 3.a.i-iii.). At worst, a few of the poisons could change.
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Yeah, this is kind of important...unfortunately, I don't know the solar system topic, and it seems like nobody else does right? I would guess people working on solar sys should either wait a month to see if the topic surfaces or maybe work on the test/notes using the more general rules if you can find them (older yes, but there can be a lot of specific topics other than ices/waters).
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