Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Meet 5 Events

It's the last regional meet.  Let's finish strong!

Meet 5 Info:
Thursday, February 12th, 2009 @ Bedford High School

The Events:
  • Designer Genes - Students will solve problems using their knowledge of Molecular Genetics, Mendelian Genetics, Biotechnology, and Population Genetics.
  • Write It / Do It - One team-mate goes into a room with a built structure.  He/she has to write instructions for his/her other team-mate on how to build it again from scrath.
  • Disease Detectives - Students will use their investigative skills in the scientific study of disease, injury, health, and disability in populations or groups of people with a focus on the effects of population growth on public health outcomes.
  • Trajectory - Teams will design, construct, and calibrate a device capable of launching a projectile into a target area and collect data to develop a series of graphs relating launch configuration to target distance and height.
Think about which event you would like to do.
Also, the sweatshirt design is ready and will be posted soon.  In addition, we will be (finally) assigning states events and relaying the choices to you guys in an upcoming meet.

Meet 4 Summary

Good job guys!  Here are the results from meet 4:

Cell Biology - 4th Place
Elevated Bridge - 8th Place
Remote Sensing - 14th Place
Oceanography - 18th Place

With these places, we tied for 11th place in the meet, bringing our overall standing to 11th place.

One more meet to go, then States!