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Re: Compute This B
Posted: November 12th, 2009, 4:54 pm
by robotman
amerikestrel wrote:Do you get extra points for completing it quickly? I'm planning on doing this with one of my friends, and we're both pretty good with computers, so would it help to be able to work fast?
Also, what exactly should you put on the website that you make? Does anyone have any examples?
well i am not nice enough to put my current website up here >.>
i do have last years website though
Last years website
it is fairly difficult to finish early in compute this even with a good website and two computer savvy people it took my partner and i the whole time to finish at every competition and our website was good
Re: Compute This B
Posted: November 12th, 2009, 4:59 pm
by AlphaTauri
robotman09 wrote:it is fairly difficult to finish early in compute this even with a good website and two computer savvy people it took my partner and i the whole time to finish at every competition and our website was good
Really? Texas competitions must be harder then PA, then, because at States last year, my partner and I finished 20 minutes early, without a website, and one of us hadn't competed in the event at Regionals.
Re: Compute This B
Posted: November 12th, 2009, 5:00 pm
by robotman
AlphaTauri wrote:robotman09 wrote:it is fairly difficult to finish early in compute this even with a good website and two computer savvy people it took my partner and i the whole time to finish at every competition and our website was good
Really? Texas competitions must be harder then PA, then, because at States last year, my partner and I finished 20 minutes early, without a website, and one of us hadn't competed in the event at Regionals.
really wow
at state we barley finished in time the only time we finished early was at one of the first Invites we went to
Re: Compute This B
Posted: November 12th, 2009, 5:12 pm
by waawamellon
you guys are very optimistic!
I think I'm gonna do just fine. hey, turns out, if all of us do really well and make it to nationals we might end up sitting by each other the whole time and not realizing it!!!
I take that back, there is NO way I will make it to nationals.
Re: Compute This B
Posted: November 14th, 2009, 1:45 pm
by waawamellon
I did compute this at an invational today, and wow... I got 0% of it right... TURNS OUT, YOU
DO NEED TO STUDY!!!!
Re: Compute This B
Posted: November 14th, 2009, 1:53 pm
by amerikestrel
waawamellon wrote:I did compute this at an invational today, and wow... I got 0% of it right... TURNS OUT, YOU
DO NEED TO STUDY!!!!
What was it like? What did you have to graph?
Re: Compute This B
Posted: November 14th, 2009, 2:07 pm
by waawamellon
They said to take the different weights of different rocks from the moon taken on different apollo missions and put it in a graph (or somthing like that)... and if the URL of the sight you're on doesn't have the word 'nasa.gov' somewhere in it you are kicked out. I think I just got confused on what to because the other group from our school did just fine.
Re: Compute This B
Posted: November 14th, 2009, 2:15 pm
by amerikestrel
waawamellon wrote:They said to take the different weights of different rocks from the moon taken on different apollo missions and put it in a graph (or somthing like that)... and if the URL of the sight you're on doesn't have the word 'nasa.gov' somewhere in it you are kicked out. I think I just got confused on what to because the other group from our school did just fine.
...but you're allowed to go on sites other than nasa.gov during the competition, except for forums and chat sites. Do you mean to say that you get kicked out if the URL of the site that you have to provide for the questions doesn't contain nasa.gov?
Re: Compute This B
Posted: November 14th, 2009, 2:24 pm
by waawamellon
If the websight you used was
http://www.nasa.gov/ or http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/ but if it doesn't have the word nasa.gov somewhere in it you will be disqualified.
but i'm no expert, if you still need anything else i'm not the one to ask
Re: Compute This B
Posted: November 14th, 2009, 2:26 pm
by fmtiger124
They would DQ you for going to another site? or was it if you answered with another site? Either one sounds ridiculous....just mark it wrong
not really sure what you mean by the first part of that with the links