London District Science Olympics
Chair: Patrick Whippey
pwhippey@uwo.ca
Youth Science Ontario
Has received two grants to promote
Science Olympics Events
throughout Ontario
Contact
Carolyn Rayfield
Executive Director
crayfield@youthscienceontario.ca
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Opening Ceremony
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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
• 1984 - 2009
Physics Olympics
Science Olympics
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23 Events
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All Events 1981 - 2009
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
Dante’s Peek
Displacement Dragster
Eggmobile Mossport
Elementary My Dear Watson
Fermi Questions
Forensic Biology
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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
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(Pentathlon Nine)
(Pentathlon Ten)
Population Estimation
Robot Runner
Robot Walker
Rube Goldberg
Scientist’s 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
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Chemical Capers
Circuitous Circuits
Cryptic Crossword
Models of Mitosis
Space Probe
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Chemical Capers
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Circuitous Circuits
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Cryptic Crossword
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Models of Mitosis
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Space Probe Launch
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Space Probe Launch
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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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Population Estimation
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Weather Watch
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Amazing Rodents
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Amazing Rodents
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Dante’s Peek
• Dante peeks at the model.
• Dante can only give verbal instructions. No
Hands!
• The Team builds the model from Dante’s
verbal instructions only.
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Fermi Questions
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London Bridge
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Mystery
Solutions
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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.
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Rube Goldberg
At 6:30 am 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.
Rube Goldberg Kits
Balloons
3
Marbles - small
Car - Model
1
Masking Tape
1m
Cloths Pins
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Playing Cards
1 pack
Dice
2
Poker tokens
4
Dominoes
24
Popsicle Sticks
12
Drinking Cups
3
Scissors
1
Drinking Straws
12
String
Marbles - big
2
Tennis Ball
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2m
1
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Anne-Marie DeCicco - Mayor
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Deb Matthews MPP
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Awards Ceremony
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Budget
Item
Cost ($)
Coffee & Snacks for Teachers & Judges
200
Janitors
250
Parking
50
Plaques & Ribbons for the winners
1100
Supplies for the events
600
T-shirts for teachers
500
Total
2700
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Cost to the Student
$5 each
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Achnowledgments
• 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 Pages
200 Science Olympics Events
http://www.physics.uwo.ca/science_olympics/
London District Science Olympics
http://www.ldstf.ca/olympics/
See the Movie
http://www.ldstf.ca/olympics/images/olympics.mov
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