Scioly States Events

Click here to see the event descriptions for states.

Same password as last time, guys.

Not all those events are in states; those are just the rules for all events in nationals.  At MA states, we will have:

Astronomy
Cell Biology
Chemistry Lab
Disease Detective
Dynamic Planet
Ecology
Electric Vehicle
Elevated Bridge
Forensics
Fossils
Health Science
Herpetology
It's About Time
Junkyard Challenge
Physics Lab
Remote Sensing
Rocks and Minerals
Technical Problem Solving
Trajectory
Write It/Do It

TRIAL EVENTS:
Evolution
Picture This
We've Got Your Number
Wind Power


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Meet 2 Event Resources

Health Science:
Tons of links, as well as a practice test here

Electric Car:
Nothing yet, but hopefully there will be a video of electric cars and some help
Pictures of last year's Electric Car made with Alex Way's K'Nex. That design won 1st place, but feel free to modify it. If you want help and want to reconstruct it, talk to Kevin or Costas.

Keep the Heat:
Ask Costas what not to do. No links here just yet.

Wind Power:
Sorry, nothing for you either. Read the event description and practice making wind machines with the materials that you will receive during the event.

Meet 1 Summary, Meet 2 Events

1st Meet Synopsis:

Egg-O-Naut: 3rd place

Physics Lab: 3rd place

Mystery Architecture: 9th place

Astronomy: 12th place

Combining these individual placements, we are currently ranked 5th among other teams. Keep up the good work Wayland! Congratulations to our Egg-O-Naut and Physics Lab teams!

2nd Meet:
Thursday, November 13th, 2008 @ Burlington High School

The titles of the events are links to the rules. Event parameters are denoted as | X, B | where X is the number of people that can do the event, and a B denotes if B teams are allowed. If B teams are allowed, we can have multiple teams of X people doing that event.

Events:

• Health Science | 4, B| - an event encompassing the anatomy and physiology of the nervous and circulatory systems, and the effect of disease and drugs on the health of those systems
  
• Electric Car | 4, B | - build a vehicle, only powered by electricity, that can be tuned right before the event to travel a given distance between 5 and 10 meters
• Keep the Heat | 4 | - build a device that can retain the temperature of boiling water as effectively as possible
• Wind Power | 4, B | - build a propeller system attached to a CD that generates the most voltage from a breeze

Health Science is a testing event, and Wind Power is an on-site building event. Keep the Heat and Electric Car are both pre-build events.
Please comment on which event you would like to do.

Meet 1 Event Resources

Physics Lab
Physics Lab resource page
Past exams from ^
Equation sheet from ^

Astronomy
Astronomy resource page
USE WIKIPEDIA. Wikipedia is a fantastic resource for astronomy. If you have a laptop and want to bring that to the event, save the wikipedia pages locally (ask Cam or myself if you don't know how to do this). For this regional meet, you can bring both a laptop and a 3-ring binder, but you have to choose which you want to bring for states (you can't bring both).

Egg-O-Naut:
Scioly Forums - Egg O Naut

Egg-O-Naut Resource page. This page is currently empty, but hopefully they'll get some links up soon.

Mystery Architecture:

Although this is an on-site building event, you can certainly practice for it before the meet. Take a bunch of random household supplies (tape, popsicle sticks, paper clips, metal wire coat hangers, toothpicks, index cards, etc.) and practice making sturdy structures with them. Two very common tasks are 1) build the tallest structure you can with the given materials and 2) build a sturdy structure that can support a given weight, but the highest of the supportive structures wins.

In any case, you can always use Google for help.  Don't reinvent the wheel.  Look up structures that have worked in the past, etc (helpful for building events).

Meet 1 Event Assignments

Physics Lab: Costas, Evan, Cam, Alex
Astronomy: Seti, Miriam, Laura, Aaron
Mystery Architecture: June, Mat, Michael, Luke
Egg-O-Naut: Amanda, Grace, Kevin, Fahad, (June), (Luke), (Surj), (Virginia)

Names in parentheses will help prepare for the event, but won't actually do the event at the meet.

Please show up to Wednesday meetings. We will be assembling teams based on meeting attendance and "blog attendance" (ie, whoever posts on the blog to do events)