Transcontinental Science Olympiad

[transcontinental]

Hello!

Transcontinental Science Olympiad is a practice invitational being held from November 21-22.

Our main goal is to create opportunity for schools to collaborate and practice without the pressure of having to place. For more information check out the website: https://transc.wixsite.com/invitationals

Please reach out to us on this forum or at transcontinentalscioly@gmail.com if you have any questions/concerns.

We look forward to practicing with you!

[belle]

Hi! Does this mean that there will be no medals? Is this is a community colloborative style invitational?

Thanks in advance!

"Our main goal is to create opportunity for schools to collaborate and practice without the pressure of having to place."

[transcontinental]

Hi Belle!

Apologies for the late response.

Yes, this is more of a community collaborative invitational. However, we are planning on offering placements so that teams know where they stand. It won't mean anything though, the main incentive is practice!

[belle]

Hi!

Thank you for your answer, that sounds great!

[JoeyC]

How many teams will be attending this so far?

[Umaroth]

How many teams will be attending this so far?

https://scilympiad.com/transcontinental/Reg/School

[JoeyC]

Ah I see, thanks!

[shadow19]

Hi, thanks again for running a great practice invitational! Its really impressive how yall ran a comp with a huge scope at 80 teams all while being still in high school!

Event Reviews:
Anatomy: 14th place
Solid test, solid questions, although it felt a bit short! Would've preferred some more physiology, and I felt like there really wasn't much room for error, so score distributions may have been an issue.
9/10

Designer Genes: 14th place
The test felt way too short, numerous questions were graded wrong, and a couple questions were incomplete. wheres muh math bro. Not a great test.
5/10

Fossils: 3rd place
The test had a nice length, I felt pressured, and was fairly enjoyable with a good amount of general earth science knowledge. However, the lack of id that would be assumed to make a nice majority of the test for a id event was interesting!
9/10

Ornithology: 4th place
Bruh. Pulling pictures off the front page of Cornell lab, and still identifying them wrong really isn't a good look! (cough mourning dove/common ground dove issue). Test was also way too short, soloing the test in 30 minutes, had almost no anatomy, no pathology, and no conservation/general bird info. Quite disappointing!

2/10

Protein Modeling: 12th place
During this event, we experienced a server glitch issue in which all of our answers got wiped. However, one of our members was able to go back in and complete the test, with a final score of 27/35. Thus, if a single person could finish the entire test within the 50 minute timer, although he didn't score very well, the length of the test certainly should be modified next time!
3/10


Overall:
Once again, great competition, but hoped for better quality tests. Maybe try getting qualified alumni next time, especially for a comp in which so many teams are going to attend. Thanks!

[eagerlearner102]

This is a general question but what caused the final scores to change quite a bit compared to the preliminary scores? I saw some rankings for events go up significantly while others went down.

[Umaroth]

This is a general question but what caused the final scores to change quite a bit compared to the preliminary scores? I saw some rankings for events go up significantly while others went down.

There was a glitch that caused short answer questions to not be scored. I would assume that ranks changed due to the addition of the scores from these short answer questions.