Minnesota 2013

[Kokonilly]

Good luck to Friedell and Mounds View at nationals! I live in NorCal now, but I do have a soft spot for the state of ice tsunamis.

[Luo]

Aww looks like the MN board of directors decided to run Roller Coaster instead of Mission Possible next year

[Seracon]

Aww looks like the MN board of directors decided to run Roller Coaster instead of Mission Possible next year

Whaaaaaat. Source?

Edit: Jk found it. Never heard of it before...Is complex machines an event, or a general header for a "complex machine" event?
And holy crap Roller Coaster sounds difficult

[Luo]

Complex Machines is indeed the title of an event. Also, Roller Coaster was run as a trial in Ohio and Virginia this past year, so it's not completely unheard of. I wish the MN board of directors wasn't so averse to Mission Possible though, because I think it's a great challenge and not necessarily any more prohibitively expensive than a building event like Robot Arm or Boomilever.

[FawnOnyx]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uaRqIcmEL4
Yaaaay so much duct tape, I'm so excited

[haverstall]

Aww looks like the MN board of directors decided to run Roller Coaster instead of Mission Possible next year

.........uuuuhhhh what?!?!

So they take out RS, and then replace MP? What is this...

[Luo]

Aww looks like the MN board of directors decided to run Roller Coaster instead of Mission Possible next year

.........uuuuhhhh what?!?!

So they take out RS, and then replace MP? What is this...

Yeah, everyone from MV who's done Mission Possible seems to call it the defining event of their Science Olympiad career. It's really a shame that they'd remove it. I'm kind of disappointed in the decision.

[Luo]

Hmm according to https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid= ... NDBmYjc5Mw it looks like they'll be running two Division C trial events, Green Generation and Hydrogeology. But that document also still lists Mission Possible as an event that will be run. Outdated document perhaps? Interesting.....