Problem
Number - Type |
Problem
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Problem
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Tournament Directors |
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Vermont Association
Director
Co-Tournament Director |
Tim Perkins
Toll-Free
1-800-805-5422
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434-4738 |
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Co-Tournament Director |
Anita
Perkins
434-4738 |
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Northern
Regional
Director |
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Lesley Adams
Stowe
253-7893 |
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Southern
Regional
Director |
Kathy
Jacob
North Clarendon
775-6590 |
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Problem Captains |
Problem 1
Vehicle |
Ooh-Motional Vehicle
Divisions I, II, & III
The problem requires teams to design, build, and drive a vehicle that will
travel a course where it will encounter three different situations. The
vehicle will display a different human emotion for each encounter and one
will cause it to travel in reverse. The team will create a theme for the
presentation that incorporates the vehicle and the different emotions. The
emphases will be on the technical risk-taking and creativity of the
vehicle's engineering for travel and change of emotional appearance.
Cost limit: $145 USD. |
Todd Ponto
353-1758 |
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Problem 2
Technical |
Weird Science
Divisions I, II, III, & IV
The team will create and present a performance about a team of scientists on
an expedition to uncover the cause of mysterious events. The team will
select the location of the expedition from NASA Earth Observatory
Photographs . The scientists will collect two samples and will report on their
findings. The performance will also include a technical representation of
the mysterious events, a moving backdrop that helps portray traveling, and a
team-created device that the scientists use on the expedition.
Cost limit: $145 USD.
 Sponsored
by NASA.
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Sean Leach
879-4799 |
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Problem 3
Classics |
To Be or Not To Be
Divisions I, II, III & IV
In this Classics problem, teams will put a musical theatre spin on one of
William Shakespeare's most famous lines: "To Be Or Not To Be." Hamlet, the
title character, ponders this question and realizes that the easy way out is
not always the correct choice. An original "Hamlet" character will face a
team-created dilemma. Unlike Shakespeare's Hamlet, the team's character will
take the easy way out only to discover that it was the wrong choice. Teams
will also incorporate a character that portrays Hamlet's conscience, a
creative scene change, a creative costume change, and use of a "trap door."
A portion of the performance will include musical theatre elements.
Cost limit: $125 USD. |
Megen Perkins
310-8024 |
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Problem 4
Balsa Structure |
You Make the Call
Divisions I, II, III & IV
For this problem, teams will design and build a structure made of only balsa
wood and glue that will balance and support as much weight as possible. The
structure may have a maximum weight of 9 grams and will receive 2 times the
weight held, or 12 grams and receive 1 ˝ times the weight held, or 15 grams
and receive the actual weight held. The testing of the structure will be
presented in a performance that includes mathematics in its theme.
Cost limit: $145 USD. |
Leslie
Griffiths
863-6454 |
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Problem 5
Theatrical |
Odyssey Angels
Divisions I, II, III & IV
The team will create and present a performance where a group of students
travel throughout one or more team-created places where they encounter
negative situations. These “Odyssey Angels” change what they find and turn
them into positive situations. On their journey, they help two individuals
with different problems and help save an entire community from a bad
situation. One Odyssey Angel cannot speak, and another has a special
team-created power.
Cost limit: $125 USD. |
Neidi Suursoo
434-5126 |
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Primary
Problem
Demonstration |
Hide and Peek
Grades K-2
The team is to create a device that uncovers three surprise objects by
lifting a team-decorated container off of each of them from 5, 8 and 10 feet
away. The containers may be raised at any time, in any order, and may be
raised simultaneously. The demonstration of the solution will be presented
during a performance that integrates raising the containers and the surprise
objects in its theme. There will be a narrator character and a setting.
Cost limit: $125 USD. |
Anita
Perkins
434-4738 |
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| Spontaneous |
Spontaneous
Div I, II, III, IV |
Donna
Shepardson
482-5015 |
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| Score Room |
Score Room
Div I, II, III, IV |
Katherine
"Deac"
Decarreau |
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