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Re: Towers B/C
Posted: September 29th, 2017, 6:43 pm
by IDon'tKnowMyName
What are your diagrams, scores, and ideas. Tell me all of your ideas. Just because. Our team's tower's mass is 1 kilogram and my height is 80 cm. Our first tower could hold 3 kilograms. We got 20th at regionals last year. It was an improvement from our last place out of the 25 teams. Hopefully, we can get first this year at regionals. So watch out!! - Anonymous
Re: Towers B/C
Posted: September 29th, 2017, 7:29 pm
by cool hand luke
IDon'tKnowMyName wrote:What are your diagrams, scores, and ideas. Tell me all of your ideas. Just because. Our team's tower's mass is 1 kilogram and my height is 80 cm. Our first tower could hold 3 kilograms. We got 20th at regionals last year. It was an improvement from our last place out of the 25 teams. Hopefully, we can get first this year at regionals. So watch out!! - Anonymous
I don't understand anything about this, why did you make it so tall? what did you make it out of?
Re: Towers B/C
Posted: September 30th, 2017, 5:29 pm
by Raleway
IDon'tKnowMyName wrote:What are your diagrams, scores, and ideas. Tell me all of your ideas. Just because. Our team's tower's mass is 1 kilogram and my height is 80 cm. Our first tower could hold 3 kilograms. We got 20th at regionals last year. It was an improvement from our last place out of the 25 teams. Hopefully, we can get first this year at regionals. So watch out!! - Anonymous
Hello! I'll save Balsaman the trouble this time
Please go to the archived 2017 posts on Towers. There are more than enough posts on how to build a jig, what tower designs we have discussed, and a whole trove of information just waiting for you to explore! Good luck!
Re: Towers B/C
Posted: October 1st, 2017, 6:21 am
by Balsa Man
Raleway wrote:IDon'tKnowMyName wrote:What are your diagrams, scores, and ideas. Tell me all of your ideas. Just because. Our team's tower's mass is 1 kilogram and my height is 80 cm. Our first tower could hold 3 kilograms. We got 20th at regionals last year. It was an improvement from our last place out of the 25 teams. Hopefully, we can get first this year at regionals. So watch out!! - Anonymous
Hello! I'll save Balsaman the trouble this time
Please go to the archived 2017 posts on Towers. There are more than enough posts on how to build a jig, what tower designs we have discussed, and a whole trove of information just waiting for you to explore! Good luck!
Thanks, Raleway
I'll just add, you might also want to read what's been posted here in the current year posts.....
Hard to tell if you're trolling, or clueless. If the former, good job/good laugh; if the latter, no offense intended, you sure have some studying to do, and you've come to the right place. Think 5-6gr tower carrying all 15kg...
Re: Towers B/C
Posted: October 1st, 2017, 12:57 pm
by Random Human
IDon'tKnowMyName wrote:What are your diagrams, scores, and ideas. Tell me all of your ideas. Just because. Our team's tower's mass is 1 kilogram and my height is 80 cm. Our first tower could hold 3 kilograms. We got 20th at regionals last year. It was an improvement from our last place out of the 25 teams. Hopefully, we can get first this year at regionals. So watch out!! - Anonymous
How is your tower 1kg, I seriously don't understand. You can have a solid block of a tower that is 80 cm high, for about 4 pounds per cubic foot (of balsa wood)... Should hold anything. Given your parameters and your weight, no matter how you build it, basically, it should hold all. I think this is a troll. 3kg/1kg of weight, 3 points. 20th regionals must have been the last place. If there weren't tiered teams. Plus... I have no idea how you would weigh that tower...
Re: Towers B/C
Posted: October 1st, 2017, 1:02 pm
by Unome
Random Human wrote:IDon'tKnowMyName wrote:What are your diagrams, scores, and ideas. Tell me all of your ideas. Just because. Our team's tower's mass is 1 kilogram and my height is 80 cm. Our first tower could hold 3 kilograms. We got 20th at regionals last year. It was an improvement from our last place out of the 25 teams. Hopefully, we can get first this year at regionals. So watch out!! - Anonymous
How is your tower 1kg, I seriously don't understand. You can have a solid block of a tower that is 80 cm high, for about 4 pounds per cubic foot (of balsa wood)... Should hold anything. Given your parameters and your weight, no matter how you build it, basically, it should hold all. I think this is a troll. 3kg/1kg of weight, 3 points. 20th regionals must have been the last place. If there weren't tiered teams. Plus... I have no idea how you would weigh that tower...
You underestimate what happens outside of the rather elite sphere of Scioly.org. Though 1 kg is very heavy, I've certainly seen teams with tower masses upwards of 500 grams.
Re: Towers B/C
Posted: October 2nd, 2017, 2:41 pm
by bernard
New tools for Science Olympiad Towers teams and coaches! Professional cloud-based structural engineering software company SkyCiv is offering its product to Science Olympiad teams for a greatly reduced rate of $20 per team for the season! Use SkyCiv's software to simulate forces and stresses, enabling better prototyping and more efficient designs. Check out this link for more info from our newest partner!
https://skyciv.com/olympiad/
Re: Towers B/C
Posted: October 2nd, 2017, 3:32 pm
by Raleway
bernard wrote:New tools for Science Olympiad Towers teams and coaches! Professional cloud-based structural engineering software company SkyCiv is offering its product to Science Olympiad teams for a greatly reduced rate of $20 per team for the season! Use SkyCiv's software to simulate forces and stresses, enabling better prototyping and more efficient designs. Check out this link for more info from our newest partner!
https://skyciv.com/olympiad/
Wow! Does this mean the whole team of one school will be able to share one account for $20.00 or is it that each individual is discounted to $20.00 for the software?
Re: Towers B/C
Posted: October 2nd, 2017, 3:33 pm
by WhatScience?
Raleway wrote:bernard wrote:New tools for Science Olympiad Towers teams and coaches! Professional cloud-based structural engineering software company SkyCiv is offering its product to Science Olympiad teams for a greatly reduced rate of $20 per team for the season! Use SkyCiv's software to simulate forces and stresses, enabling better prototyping and more efficient designs. Check out this link for more info from our newest partner!
https://skyciv.com/olympiad/
Wow! Does this mean the whole team of one school will be able to share one account for $20.00 or is it that each individual is discounted to $20.00 for the software?
What does this software do exactly and how does it help build towers?
Re: Towers B/C
Posted: October 2nd, 2017, 3:37 pm
by WhatScience?
Unome wrote:Random Human wrote:IDon'tKnowMyName wrote:What are your diagrams, scores, and ideas. Tell me all of your ideas. Just because. Our team's tower's mass is 1 kilogram and my height is 80 cm. Our first tower could hold 3 kilograms. We got 20th at regionals last year. It was an improvement from our last place out of the 25 teams. Hopefully, we can get first this year at regionals. So watch out!! - Anonymous
How is your tower 1kg, I seriously don't understand. You can have a solid block of a tower that is 80 cm high, for about 4 pounds per cubic foot (of balsa wood)... Should hold anything. Given your parameters and your weight, no matter how you build it, basically, it should hold all. I think this is a troll. 3kg/1kg of weight, 3 points. 20th regionals must have been the last place. If there weren't tiered teams. Plus... I have no idea how you would weigh that tower...
You underestimate what happens outside of the rather elite sphere of Scioly.org. Though 1 kg is very heavy, I've certainly seen teams with tower masses upwards of 500 grams.
I think you are overdoing it just a bit Unome....while some of the first towers out team built just to get used to the idea of accuracy joining wood without wasting any really good material were heavy, I think 500 grams is a stretch.