London District Science Olympics

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• London District Science Olympics

Chair Patrick Whippey pwhippey_at_uwo.ca
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Centennial Collegiate
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Goals

• To do good Science and Engineering

• To have fun doing it

• To involve as many people as possible

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History

• 1981-1982 Physics Olympics 6 Events
• 1984 - 2004 Science Olympics 25 Events

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All Events 1981-2005
Functional Mathematics Heavy Engineering If the
Key Fits Indoor Kite Flying INDYcator
500 Lightening Calculators London Bridge Metric
Madness Microscopic Manipulations Mathematical
Menagerie Metric Madness Mitosis
Multiplication Mixed Company Mousetrap
Derby Mystery Solutions Pendulum Ballista

• Add-Em-Up
• Amazing Rodents
• And This Little Pig
• Bach from Bamboo
• Back to Beethoven
• Chemical Capers
• Circuitous Circuits
• Compound Boggle
• Cryptic Crossword
• Cryptic Word Search
• Dantes Peek
• Displacement Dragster
• Eggmobile Mossport
• Elementary My Dear Watson
• Fermi Questions
• Forensic Biology

(Pentathlon Nine) (Pentathlon Ten) Population
Estimation Robot Runner Robot Walker Rube
Goldberg Scientists Apprentice Space
Probe SPLAT (Sub orbital Payload Launch And
Trap) Star Wars Stick-em Up Tea Making Treasure
Hunt Weather Watch Word Search
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Pentathlon Nine

• Chemical Capers
• Circuitous Circuits
• Cryptic Crossword
• Mitosis Multiplication
• Space Probe

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Chemical Capers
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Circuitous Circuits
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Cryptic Crossword
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Mitosis Multiplication
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Mitosis Multiplication
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Pentathlon Ten

• Cryptic Word Search
• Displacement Dragster
• INDYcator 500
• Population Estimation
• Weather Watch

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Cryptic Word Search
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Displacement Dragster
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Displacement Dragster
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INDYcator 500
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Weather Watch
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Amazing Rodents
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The Maze
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And This Little Pig
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Compound Boggle 1
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Compound Boggle 2
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Dantes Peek

• Dante peeks at the model.
• Dante can only give verbal instructions. No
  Hands!
• The Team builds the model from Dantes verbal
  instructions only.

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Fermi Event
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London Bridge
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Mystery Solutions
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Rube Goldberg
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Rube Goldberg
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Rube Goldberg

• Get the marble in to the cup in the most
  complicated way possible using the materials
  provided.

http//xroads.virginia.edu/UG00/3on1/tobaccoads/r
ube.htm
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• At 630 weight (A) automatically drops on head of
  dwarf (B), causing him to yell and drop cigar
  (C), which sets fire to paper (D). Heat from fire
  angers dwarf's wife (E). She sharpens potato
  knife (F) on grindstone (G) which turns wheel (H)
  causing olive spoon (I) to dip repeatedly into
  olives. If spoon does not lift an olive in 15
  minutes, clock (J) automatically pushes
  glass-cutter (K) against bottle and takes out a
  chunk of glass big enough for you to stick your
  finger in and pull out an olive.

http//www.anl.gov/OPA/rube/rubeolive.html
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Rube Goldberg Kits
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Awards Ceremony
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Anne-Marie DeCicco - Mayor
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Deborah Matthews - MPP
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Budget
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Cost to the School

• 0

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Acknowledgements

• Natural Science and Engineering Research Council
  PromoScience Program
• London District Roman Catholic School Board
• Thames Valley School Board
• The University of Western Ontario.

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Web Site

• 200 Science Olympics Events
• http//www.physics.uwo.ca/science_olympics/

London District Science Olympics http//www.physic
s.uwo.ca/olympics
See the Movie http//www.physics.uwo.ca/olympics/m
ovie.html
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Play the Movie

• Movie
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