Indiana Science Olympiad

[Quinjamincy]

Out of curiousity, what was Northridge's time for egg-o-naut?

[ODoyleRules]

Northridge's Time was 2 minutes 4 seconds.

[ktrujillo52]

I heard they intentionally broke their egg, is this true?

[sciolyandmathcounts]

I still don't know how I bombed Road Scholar so badly at states.........

[Friedoyster3]

I still don't know how I bombed Road Scholar so badly at states.........

i know what you mean

[ODoyleRules]

I heard they intentionally broke their egg, is this true?

Nope, live egg.

[ktrujillo52]

Well congrats to them. That is a very impressive time.

[Horatio11]

Did anyone here take the Remote Sensing test? After I took it I wasn't very impressed with it as I felt that it was a crap shoot considering the difficulty and nature of the test. It also made me angry that over half the test could be found here on this site along with the answer key (check out the 2009 Greenhill test). I would really expect a more well thought out test considering it was the state tournament. But besides this, the other events I participated in were very well run

[peoneill]

@kjtrujillo: didn't you rock out in A&P? I graded the endocrine and did the totals and I thought you got 6th or 7th. Don't sweat the bonus essay, like three teams actually successfully did one. And I graded it wicked harsh, so spending time elsewhere was the way to go. What I'm wracking my brains over is how was the endocrine so hard for people? The average on identifying hormone classes was about 30% (random guessing would yield 20%!). That was the very first thing listed in the rules! I even highlighted the 4 rings on the steroid structure I showed, and enlarged the iodine atoms in the thyroid hormone structure. Only Bloomington North managed to get even one third of the endocrine credit and they got almost all of it - but those same two girls won Health Science in 1999 as freshmen when endocrinology was a topic before, and they've won national medals twice since then, too... Questions that weren't very complicated and came from the rules in a relatively straightforward way really stumped people for the endocrine section, while they were answering much more complicated questions on the skeletal and muscular without a problem. I'm curious... did people just not study the endocrine system as much? Or were they expecting something different? It's true high school texts SUCK at covering the endocrine system. Maybe that's the problem?

Chem Lab was RIDICULOUS it was so competitive.

Environmental chemistry was... um... less competitive. Although it was a TON of the same kids as Chem Lab. Perhaps I didn't correctly anticipate how much more difficult it is to study material that isn't in the normal high school curriculum.

[sciolykid101]

@kjtrujillo: didn't you rock out in A&P? I graded the endocrine and did the totals and I thought you got 6th or 7th. Don't sweat the bonus essay, like three teams actually successfully did one. And I graded it wicked harsh, so spending time elsewhere was the way to go. What I'm wracking my brains over is how was the endocrine so hard for people? The average on identifying hormone classes was about 30% (random guessing would yield 20%!). That was the very first thing listed in the rules! I even highlighted the 4 rings on the steroid structure I showed, and enlarged the iodine atoms in the thyroid hormone structure. Only Bloomington North managed to get even one third of the endocrine credit and they got almost all of it - but those same two girls won Health Science in 1999 as freshmen when endocrinology was a topic before, and they've won national medals twice since then, too... Questions that weren't very complicated and came from the rules in a relatively straightforward way really stumped people for the endocrine section, while they were answering much more complicated questions on the skeletal and muscular without a problem. I'm curious... did people just not study the endocrine system as much? Or were they expecting something different? It's true high school texts SUCK at covering the endocrine system. Maybe that's the problem?

Chem Lab was RIDICULOUS it was so competitive.

Environmental chemistry was... um... less competitive. Although it was a TON of the same kids as Chem Lab. Perhaps I didn't correctly anticipate how much more difficult it is to study material that isn't in the normal high school curriculum.

Actually, I prefer endocrine over skeletal and muscular. Muscular is REALLY complicated. Endocrine is the way to go.

[sciolyandmathcounts]

I really think there might have been a grading error for Road Scholar. Maybe there were huge tiebrakers and we got really unlucky. For Compute This, the links were epic hard to find. Can't Judge A Powder was easy though and there was only one question we didn't have in our observations.

For nationals my goal would probably be to try to medal in 1 event(most likely Can't Judge A Powder, since we got gold at states).

Also, does anyone have the scoresheet for all the teams? I had to stay overnight after the competition, so I only got to see the scoresheet once.

[sciolyandmathcounts]

I just realized something else: Our overall score of our rankings added up was 19 worse than last year when we didn't qualify for nationals. It's sorta weird.

[Friedoyster3]

I really think there might have been a grading error for Road Scholar. Maybe there were huge tiebrakers and we got really unlucky. For Compute This, the links were epic hard to find. Can't Judge A Powder was easy though and there was only one question we didn't have in our observations.

For nationals my goal would probably be to try to medal in 1 event(most likely Can't Judge A Powder, since we got gold at states).

Also, does anyone have the scoresheet for all the teams? I had to stay overnight after the competition, so I only got to see the scoresheet once.

actually there was a conflict between can't judge and WIDI for "your partner" but i think he'll choose can't judge

[ktrujillo52]

@peoneill

lol that test was really long...so my partner and I decided to split up the test. I honestly didn't even look at the packet. I did study the Endocrine system a lot because I thought it would be important at State. But when it came down to it I had to choose between doing the Endocrine Packet or the stations. Since my partner is better at the Endocrine system than the other two I let him do the packet.

Sounds like the packet was difficult. The stations weren't too bad though. I got stumped on some questions though.

[emd19]

I just found out that in Indiana, all B teams can bring binders. This is on the Indiana Sc.Olypd. website.Why isn't this happening in PA. It would really help for ornithology and other events. You Indiana People are so lucky.