New Events!

[i-am-horus]

I heard that there are new events. They were: Wheeled Vehicle, Can't Judge a Powder, Wright Stuff, Forestry, Roller coaster, Fast Facts.
I am a new recruit for the Seven Lakes JH team. Does anybody have any info about these events? Were some rotated out, or are these purely new events?
Thanks!

[drcubbin]

Hello! This is a little late, but...

The wiki contains a decent amount of info on these events—I believe all of these have been run before, so you should be able to find their pages on the Comprehensive Event Listing (alphabetical) page.

[i-am-horus]

Hello! This is a little late, but...

The wiki contains a decent amount of info on these events—I believe all of these have been run before, so you should be able to find their pages on the Comprehensive Event Listing (alphabetical) page.

Thanks man! Appreciate it!

Also by recruit, I mean that I got pre-assessed and I fought very hard to make it.

[knightmoves]

Note that the details of these events will change a bit, but the general concept will be the same.

So for roller coaster, you're going to have to build a device that a marble-like object spends a variable length of time running down. You don't know the size limits, but it will be somewhere between 50cm cubed and 1m cubed. It will need to be adjustable to hit a target time probably up to a minute or so. There will probably be bonus points for jumping gaps, and you probably gain points for the device being smaller than the maximum. There may or may not be rules about prohibiting enclosed tubes or funnels etc.
Perhaps there will be bonus points for a loop-de-loop or something.

Wright Stuff is an elastic rubber-powered plane. The details of the plane (mass, wingspan, etc.) will vary each year, but the general idea (build a plane to minimum weight, carefully trim to maximize flight time in (usually) school gym doesn't. Any of the past years' Wright Stuff forums on this site will offer lots of sensible advice from people who know what they're talking about.

[i-am-horus]

Ooh...
Thanks for the info, knightmoves! I really appreciate your help on what I should expect next year.
Thanks!