Wednesday, October 1, 2008

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).

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