Experimental Design

by **eyeball138** on Sun May 10, 2009 8:36 pm

No, we got 6th. I think the fact that they told us EXACTLY what to do hurt us, because it gave the teams that hadn't prepared well enough a better chance. I really wish that supervisors stopped doing that.

by **Avis_de-Incendia** on Mon May 11, 2009 9:02 pm

Even worse, sometimes if you try to be creative ( :roll:

) and try to make up your own experiment, they might take points off.

by **2win** on Tue May 12, 2009 10:21 am

Well, if they already gave you instructions, you kinda have to know that you have to follow their experiment and not make up another one.

by **sadistic_cottoncandy** on Sun May 17, 2009 2:33 pm

we got 2nd in this event at nats. it was awesome.

by **eyeball138** on Sun May 17, 2009 2:34 pm

What was the experiment?

by **sadistic_cottoncandy** on Sun May 17, 2009 2:40 pm

produce an unmoving electric charge.

by **eyeball138** on Sun May 17, 2009 2:47 pm

That sounds pretty difficult. Congratulations on getting 2nd!

by **Phenylethylamine** on Sun May 17, 2009 7:46 pm

We got 12th, and we have no idea why we didn't do better than that (not to sound butterfly or anything, but we've always been pretty darn good at this event).

The supervisor seemed a little... unsure of herself, I guess would be the most polite way to put it. We asked for graph paper and she said she couldn't give us any because it weighed too much to take on the plane... because there's no graph paper in Augusta?

by **sadistic_cottoncandy** on Tue May 19, 2009 3:23 pm

eyeball138 wrote:That sounds pretty difficult. Congratulations on getting 2nd!

thanks!
and getting twelfth is not that bad. at least you made it to the top 15. we got 27th in WIDI, and we were so excited. this year was probly our best at nats. we've only been for three years, (our first year was when i was a sixth grader) and last year we got the Spirit award, but this year we placed better overall.

by **Phenylethylamine** on Tue May 19, 2009 8:26 pm

Oh, I know, 12th isn't bad at all, but this was the one event we were definitely expecting a medal in. I would say it's my best event. We also thought we did really well, didn't leave anything out, etc. and were pretty surprised to hear our place (as was our coach).

by **kp9ssa** on Sun Jun 21, 2009 7:58 pm

wat did u hav to do at nats for this event

by **Paradox21** on Mon Jun 22, 2009 12:57 pm

kp9ssa wrote:wat did u hav to do at nats for this event

For Div. C we had to do an experiment on static electricity. They gave us a bunch of materials and told us if they were positively charged or negatively charged.

by **kp9ssa** on Mon Jun 22, 2009 6:43 pm

oh thats sounds interesting

by **karatekid44** on Sat Jun 27, 2009 7:54 am

Why did you guys get in the event then?

by **Avis_de-Incendia** on Mon Jun 29, 2009 8:08 pm

So how do you produce an unmoving electric charge lol?

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