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 Physics Olympics 6 Events

• 1984 - 2009 Science Olympics 23 Events

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 All Events 1981 - 2009
Add-Em-Up Functional Mathematics (Pentathlon Nine)
Amazing Rodents Heavy Engineering (Pentathlon Ten)
And This Little Pig If the Key Fits Population Estimation
Bach from Bamboo Indoor Kite Flying Robot Runner
Back to Beethoven INDYcator 500 Robot Walker
Chemical Capers Lightening Calculators Rube Goldberg
Circuitous Circuits London Bridge Scientist’s Apprentice
Compound Boggle Metric Madness Space Probe
Cryptic Crossword Microscopic Manipulations SPLAT
Cryptic Word Search Mathematical Menagerie (Sub orbital Payload
Dante’s Peek Metric Madness Launch And Trap)
Displacement Dragster Mitosis Multiplication Star Wars
Eggmobile Mossport Mixed Company Stick-em Up
Elementary My Dear Watson Mousetrap Derby Tea Making
Fermi Questions Mystery Solutions Treasure Hunt
Forensic Biology Pendulum Ballista Weather Watch
Word Search
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 Pentathlon Nine

• 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 (F) on grindstone

(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
(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 4

Car - Model 1 Masking Tape 1m

Cloths Pins 6 Playing Cards 1 pack

Dice 2 Poker tokens 4
Dominoes 24 Popsicle Sticks 12
Drinking Cups 3 Scissors 1
Drinking Straws 12 String 2m
Marbles - big 2 Tennis Ball 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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