Re: Ongoing Contest(Scores)
Posted: March 13th, 2013, 6:43 am
Hey, its good to hear that info posted to this board has been of help to folks. Thanks.
Science-O (and science, for that matter) is all about learning; taking what's known, and going that next step. Helping make sure that what's known is....accessible to everyone ups everybody's game. Over the years, I've learned a lot from info folk have posted here, and it only seems appropriate to.....give back to the pool of knowledge.
One thing to....grumble about; inthewoods' and fanjiatan's comments about scores not being available to the competitors. For many years, in the Northern Colorado Region, and at State, for towers/bridges/booms, we've run a blackboard in the testing room. Back when there was morning check-in & impound, it showed run-time, structure weight, load carried, and score; this year with on-line sign-up, and check-in and then run , just team #s, and scores. This helps make it an enjoyable spectator event.
I have to assume there is some rationale behind keeping results ....secret, but I'll be darned if I can figure out what it is. Both for making the event a better spectator event, and supporting the ...importance of learning that presumably underliies S-O, providing everyone with the information of how everyone did- what that picture looks like seems the obvious way to go.
Science-O (and science, for that matter) is all about learning; taking what's known, and going that next step. Helping make sure that what's known is....accessible to everyone ups everybody's game. Over the years, I've learned a lot from info folk have posted here, and it only seems appropriate to.....give back to the pool of knowledge.
One thing to....grumble about; inthewoods' and fanjiatan's comments about scores not being available to the competitors. For many years, in the Northern Colorado Region, and at State, for towers/bridges/booms, we've run a blackboard in the testing room. Back when there was morning check-in & impound, it showed run-time, structure weight, load carried, and score; this year with on-line sign-up, and check-in and then run , just team #s, and scores. This helps make it an enjoyable spectator event.
I have to assume there is some rationale behind keeping results ....secret, but I'll be darned if I can figure out what it is. Both for making the event a better spectator event, and supporting the ...importance of learning that presumably underliies S-O, providing everyone with the information of how everyone did- what that picture looks like seems the obvious way to go.
