Georgia 2016

[Unome]

I'm pretty sure it is, because we've been doing it for a long time. We only do it with 9th graders, and are careful to have only 5 on a team. We've even done it once or twice at nationals (had 5 9th graders on the Drake nationals team).

From soinc.org: In the case of 9th graders, public school students may compete on the team from the middle school that they most recently attended.

Up to 5 Auburn junior high 8th and 9th graders can legally compete for Drake on any one team. No Drake 6th and 7th graders can compete on an official Auburn Junior High team. And nothing is official until Regionals....

Yup. Exactly. But they have to have attended Drake. I just realized I said we only do it with 9th graders, I meant 8th AND 9th graders.

Ah ok.

Anyone going to Dodgen?

I wish, but MIT is the same day. I notice from the team list on the tournament website that the major teams going are Dodgen ( ), FSA, Piedmont, Auburn, Bearden, Jay M. Robinson (don't know how good they are), and (if you want to consider them major) Bell Street.

Edit: Is J.F. Drake going? The team list shows "DMS-Independent" and Drake is the closest match I can find.

No Bell Street.

I sort of just assumed they were going... maybe next time I should look more carefully.

[awesome90220]

Was anybody else at Brookwood and in experimental? I wish there were more markings on the acutal experiment...

[samlan16]

Was anybody else at Brookwood and in experimental? I wish there were more markings on the acutal experiment...

I heard there were a ton of problems with people following the prompt. Our A team unknowingly did something about amplitude and would have medalled, but obviously they were tiered.

[Unome]

Was anybody else at Brookwood and in experimental? I wish there were more markings on the acutal experiment...

I heard there were a ton of problems with people following the prompt. Our A team unknowingly did something about amplitude and would have medalled, but obviously they were tiered.

Well, having now been to Brookwood, I suppose I can now reasonably say that it was nowhere near as competitive as you said also awesome90220 you should probably change your division now...

Also, I didn't do Exp Design (although I did do it once in 7th grade... that was an interesting experience).

[blueice]

How does the tier thing work?
If your experiment includes something they deem off topic, they move you down to the next tier?

[samlan16]

Well, having now been to Brookwood, I suppose I can now reasonably say that it was nowhere near as competitive as you said

Oh please. You study like it's a part time job while the vast majority of students only put in 2 hrs/wk and I'm considered special for doing 10 hrs counting practice.

[Unome]

Well, having now been to Brookwood, I suppose I can now reasonably say that it was nowhere near as competitive as you said

Oh please. You study like it's a part time job while the vast majority of students only put in 2 hrs/wk and I'm considered special for doing 10 hrs counting practice.

True (but it still doesn't match up to Booth or Dodgen).

[samlan16]

Well, having now been to Brookwood, I suppose I can now reasonably say that it was nowhere near as competitive as you said

Oh please. You study like it's a part time job while the vast majority of students only put in 2 hrs/wk and I'm considered special for doing 10 hrs counting practice.

True (but it still doesn't match up to Booth or Dodgen).

Say what you want, but plenty of people will disagree.

[samlan16]

Per this tweet by Cobb County Schools, Dodgen appears to be cancelled. Please post if you hear otherwise.

EDIT: The tournament has changed format to be a virtual test exchange for this year. Schools are asked to send their students' scores upon completion of all study/ lab events.

[sciolylover13]

Per this tweet by Cobb County Schools, Dodgen appears to be cancelled. Please post if you hear otherwise.

Don't know about it being cancelled, but Auburn will not be attending due to the bad weather in the area.

Edit: So is it cancelled?

Edit 2: So Dodgen is now being run as a virtual tourney next week. to all the people on my team who were HAPPY about it being cancelled because they weren't ready, even after friendship being literally just 2 weeks ago.