Illinois 2011

[lllazar]

Wow we're 55th right now, i think we can really make it!!

[4science]

I think we can too! Keep voting--text, site and FB!!

[4science]

It's at 43!! Keep voting--we can do this!!

[kjhsscioly]

On a different note, is anyone going to be at CLC invites?

[ironchef48]

Does anyone know how the scores went down at the Hinsdale South meet on saturday Dec 11th?

[courage7856]

On a different note, is anyone going to be at CLC invites?

I am. CLC is right down the street from me, so we kind of have to go. Our coach also used to be on Central's team. How's that for weird?

[kjhsscioly]

we might be in the same ornithology/fossils... do you know how the proctor for fossils is? the one for ornithology seemed last year to be an extreme enthusiast; he had so many stuffed models. The one HUGE issue last year was the grading. My partner and I got most of the birds ID and questions right, but he marked off all the scientific names, ones we answered correctly, just because we didn't underline our answers. He also used numerous bird that weren't on the list, which really was unfair, since the big feather we were asked to ID came from a sandhill crane, and that wasn't on the list at all.

[lllazar]

That really sucks...the fossils proctor was awesome, her test was well written and covered nothing thatt wasn't on the list. She could have been a little less serious but hey

[kjhsscioly]

i won't complain as long as they have read and followed the rules. Believe it or not, this is even a problem at regionals. We get that [insert event] is their passion, but this is still a competition with a syllabus, and the full force should be reined in within the bounds of the rules.

[courage7856]

we might be in the same ornithology/fossils... do you know how the proctor for fossils is? the one for ornithology seemed last year to be an extreme enthusiast; he had so many stuffed models. The one HUGE issue last year was the grading. My partner and I got most of the birds ID and questions right, but he marked off all the scientific names, ones we answered correctly, just because we didn't underline our answers. He also used numerous bird that weren't on the list, which really was unfair, since the big feather we were asked to ID came from a sandhill crane, and that wasn't on the list at all.

I remember that. My partner and I weren't in the running for a medal anyway (I was literally assigned to Ornithology 2 days before Central), but we were kind of upset about that feather. And I think there was something else at Loyola that wasn't on the list too. There was an email sent out before about underlining the scientific names. I remember my coach specifically telling us. It's actually the CLC coach who runs the event, and he gets the specimens from our town's nature center. My partner pointed out last year that we should go see what the nature center had so we would know what would be on the regional test, but we forgot and he didn't run it anyway. Oh well.