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Yah. We had to build a basic circut, to light four light bulbs in a parallel circut. The event proctor took notes on how we built our circut. It was pretty easy.

Agreed, although I recommend checking, especially with alligator clips, because they are easy to misplace, creating a problem in the circuit and in your score (:

If anyone hasn't already, I recommend playing the game Physicus. You can buy it at Target for about $5.
The game is a Myst-styled puzzle game that deals with a lot of different aspects of science, including electricity. The puzzles are sometimes so knowledge-based that the game include Educational Chapters that teach you a lot about the topics in a simple and easy way.
The Educational Chapters include:
-Science of Heat
-Acoustics
-Optics
-Science of Electricty

You can learn a lot from this game, plus its just fun

robodude wrote:If anyone hasn't already, I recommend playing the game Physicus. You can buy it at Target for about $5.
The game is a Myst-styled puzzle game that deals with a lot of different aspects of science, including electricity. The puzzles are sometimes so knowledge-based that the game include Educational Chapters that teach you a lot about the topics in a simple and easy way.
The Educational Chapters include:
-Science of Heat
-Acoustics
-Optics
-Science of Electricty

You can learn a lot from this game, plus its just fun

But can it really teach you that much? It's just a PC game you can buy at target.

Yes. You can learn that much from it.
If you have started to study already and have a lot of info, don't get it. You probably already know everything from it.
But if you haven't yet (why haven't you been studying?) I would start there, with that game.

okay. i'm really new at this event and im just asking if there are some basic rules to not electrocuting yourself.

You shouldn't have to worry about electrocution in this event you probably wont be dealing with anything over 9 volts anyways
But some general tips are
1.Don't stick your finger/tongue/metal objects in a electrical outlet
2.Don't lick wires

hm sounds good. any tips for not short circuiting and killing the battery?

don't connect 1terminal of the battery to the other terminal of the same battery

Has anyone participated in this event yet? What types of things did they ask?