Petition (not really) for Fermi Questions

[Fibonacci924]

Sounds extremely interesting, because arbitrary math events are hard to find.

I ,Fibonacci924, sign.

[finagle29]

• creating a game is not an accurate assessment of programming ability
• Fermi has the potential to have very fine gradation between teams scores by having multiple questions as opposed to a single objective: creating a game
• play balancing is an extremely subjective criterion that supposes that event supervisors all have the same level of video game competency/familiarity

also i really want Fermi Q to come back

[Unome]

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• play balancing is an extremely subjective criterion that supposes that event supervisors all have the same level of video game competency/familiarity

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I haven't read the rules, so I hadn't thought about this before, but it will definitely be a factor. I've made games that some people could play easily, but other people could barely figure out (for example, that they could move while in midair).

[UTF-8 U+6211 U+662F]

Hey, what's Fermi about?

[Unome]

Hey, what's Fermi about?

http://scioly.org/wiki/index.php/Fermi_Questions
It's basically Metric Mastery in C; sure, it was strange, but people seem to like it better than Game On.

[aditi]

Yeah Fermi sounds interesting...

[pikachu4919]

Hey, what's Fermi about?

http://scioly.org/wiki/index.php/Fermi_Questions
It's basically Metric Mastery in C; sure, it was strange, but people seem to like it better than Game On.

It was here in my freshman year, but Fermi Questions is an event involving solving large-scale estimation problems in magnitudes of ten. Some example problems would be: "How many seconds would it take a pin dropped from the top of Mt. Everest to reach the ground?" or "How many carbon atoms are in the Hope Diamond?" And you give your answer as a power of ten, so if your estimation was 2x10^4, you would give an answer of 4. there's more info on the wiki under past events

[Sciolapedia]

I really want to see fermi back, but how can we do it? Don't we need a supervisor to back us up?

[JShap]

From Chalker in the other forums:
"I think it's time to point out the general process for getting a new event, and solicit some of this energy and passion I see in this thread to be applied to it. The process is as follows:

1. Write up draft rules using the template available here: http://soinc.org/sites/default/files/up ... 21-15.docx
2. Circulate the rules amongst people like myself who are intimately familiar with SO for feedback
3. Submit the rules to regional and state tournament directors and ask that they try it out as a trial event. It really helps if you have supporting resources / documentation / etc to help event supervisors out.
4. Once several states have tried it, state directors will submit it to the national committees for testing at the national tournament
5. once we pilot it at nationals, it can get placed into the rotation as a regular event"

[Unome]

From Chalker in the other forums:
"I think it's time to point out the general process for getting a new event, and solicit some of this energy and passion I see in this thread to be applied to it. The process is as follows:

1. Write up draft rules using the template available here: http://soinc.org/sites/default/files/up ... 21-15.docx
2. Circulate the rules amongst people like myself who are intimately familiar with SO for feedback
3. Submit the rules to regional and state tournament directors and ask that they try it out as a trial event. It really helps if you have supporting resources / documentation / etc to help event supervisors out.
4. Once several states have tried it, state directors will submit it to the national committees for testing at the national tournament
5. once we pilot it at nationals, it can get placed into the rotation as a regular event"

You can put it in quotes like other posts:

I think it's time to point out the general process for getting a new event, and solicit some of this energy and passion I see in this thread to be applied to it. The process is as follows:

1. Write up draft rules using the template available here: http://soinc.org/sites/default/files/up ... 21-15.docx
2. Circulate the rules amongst people like myself who are intimately familiar with SO for feedback
3. Submit the rules to regional and state tournament directors and ask that they try it out as a trial event. It really helps if you have supporting resources / documentation / etc to help event supervisors out.
4. Once several states have tried it, state directors will submit it to the national committees for testing at the national tournament
5. once we pilot it at nationals, it can get placed into the rotation as a regular event