Welcome to the Region 12

2016 Michigan Science Olympiad

Coaches’ Clinic

December 9, 2015

Agenda

● Welcome and General Information● Devices and Rule Changes● Open Forum

● Post Meeting Session: New Coaches Orientation

General Announcements

● Invitationals○ Grandville B Invitational 1/30/16○ West Ottawa C Invitational 1/30/16○ Allendale B & C 2/27/16

● Clarifications & FAQ’s● Regional Expectations and Timeline

○ Pre-Registration Form: Due 2/5/15○ Self-Schedule Opens: 8 am Monday, Feb. 22, 2016 Closes: 5 pm Sunday, March 13, 2016○ Day of Paperwork - Bring 3/19/16 to Registration○ Opening Ceremony - 8:30 am

● Volunteer Policy● 2016 TENTATIVE Schedule● Protein Modeling Pre-Build Kits● Websites and Coaches’ Portal

• National Science Olympiad Site

soinc.org

• Student Wikiscioly.org

• New MI Website

• www.miscioly.org

Beneficial Websites

Website www.gvsu.edu/mso-r12

Mission Possible CRobot Arm

Protein ModelingWind Power

Bottle RocketsFood Science

Mission Possible is a Rube Goldberg Device

A Racketball is used to set off a series of transfers between simple machines with final goal to ring a bell.

Start Tasktransfers

between simple machines

Final Task

Points Timing – Device runs a maximum of 180 s (3 min) but an ideal time of 60s. Make a good timer! Electricity can not be used to optimize timing.

Dimensions: max 60cmx60cmx60cm

Turn in TSL, set up within 30 min timeframe

Machine Transfer Points +25 pts

To earn points all transfers must be listed in the Transfer Sequence List, TSL

All transfers must be unique and transfer between 2 different simple machines

Each simple machine can only initiate a transfer three times. ~18 possibilities.

Transfer Sequence List

TSL

Must be uploaded or emailed to RMSC by Sunday March 13, 5pm

Must have each transfer that contributes to the operation of the device.

Must have scorable tasks numbered in order corresponding to numbers on the device

Reminders

Make sure you can explain the device

Bring extra copies of your TSL

Bring a repair kit/leveling shims

All actions must be contained within the box at all times

Robot ArmClarification- Point total 110 points

Technical documentation: due at event

Parts labeled

Operations descriptions

Runs Documenting practice

The playing field

75X75 playing field

30X30 cm base area

5 pingpong balls5 legos5 pencils4 die

3 egg carton goals

B

B

B

B

B

B

Competition

● 3 minutes maximum to get items into goal cartons

● Goal cartons can be moved outside competition area

● Each item has a specific value and area● Tiered scoring

Protein Modeling

Team of 3- impound prebuilt structure

We have kits to build that structure with us today.

1 Amino acid every 2cm

Students will build a protein at the tournament and take a test

Prebuildhttp://cbm.msoe.edu/scienceOlympiad/designEnvironment/prebuild.html

Prebuild environmentrestrict 93-261 and chain=A spacefill off

backbone 0.9

Look at protein structure

wireframe off

color structure

1sep.pdb site: look at sequence

Wind PowerBuild non-metallic blades onto a CD. Modification of CD is not allowed. Impound the blade assembly in a labeled box.

Test at the assembly at 2 speeds at separate stations and also take a written test.

Bottle Rockets

No Impound, Bottles should be < 2L. Save labels on bottles. No recovery system.

We are only doing 1 launch per team.

This will eliminate Tier 1 scoring.

We will try and have an alternative launch if scored launch is cancelled due to weather.

Food Science

Teams impound items for experiment

Teams should upload 9 experiment logs (3 for each experiment) by Sunday March 13 at 5 pm. Use Food science experiment form available at soinc.org

Food Science

Choice of 3 experiments

● make butter● make curds● make ice cream

A written test on dairy food science

Elastic Launched Glider - B

Elastic Launched Glider

No practice on tournament day at Region 12

Air Trajectory

-B and C

Air Trajectory - What’s different

- The falling mass itself does not propel the projectile. It must move air to push the ball.

- Target may be just a small X on the floor.- HIGH score wins- -Near target centered. Far target off

center- -Competitors cannot be within 75 cm

Game On - C• Game On (B) scratch.mit.edu

Game On

NYC Science Olympiad 2015 Game On

Theme: Global Climate Change

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/47008660/

Hydrogeology - C

Hydrogeology

•Part 1: Written Test•Part 2: Running the model•Part 3: Applying model output to real life situations

The Groundwater Foundationwww.groundwater.org/so.html

Trial EventsFound on MSO Region 12 site:

Event Information

B and C

Potions and PoisonsRoller Coaster

Potions and Poisons

DESCRIPTION: Students will demonstrate an understanding and knowledge of of the chemical properties and effects of specified toxic and therapeutic chemical substances, with a focus on common household and environmental toxins or poisons.

Potions and Poisons

COMPETITION:

Part 1: Written test (60%)

Part 2: Lab (40%)

Roller Coaster

Michigan Science OlympiadState Tournament

April 30, 2016

Trial Event: “Source Code” -Programming in Python

Happy Computer Science Education Week!

“Source Code” SAMPLE PROBLEM: Find the sum of the positive, even numbers between 0 and 100. Return the sum.

-Coding practice: code.org

QuestionsChelsea Ridge

ridgec@gvsu.edu

Mary Watterswattersm@gvsu.edu

Open Forum/Discussion