Online Scheduling

Why is the Los Angeles County Science Olympiad implementing online sign ups for self-schedule events?

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Scheduling online will minimize the early morning crush of sign ups as the Olympiad competition begins. This should benefit student competitors and Event Captains both. In addition, each team will know the schedule for each student prior to the day of the competition. The number of last second changes on the day of the competition should be minimized as well.

Do we also need to sign up to impound our device for a self-scheduled event that requires impound?

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No. It is not necessary to sign up for a time to impound, only to compete. If your team is participating in an event that requires impound, the device must be impounded between 8am and 9am.

The following events require your team's device to be impounded before the competition begins:

Battery Buggy B
Junkyard Challenge B
Mission Possible C
Mousetrap Vehicle C
Physical Science Lab B
Physics Lab C
Trajectory B and C

What are the web links to sign up for the self-schedule events?

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Battery Buggy B

Egg-O-Naut C

Elevated Bridge B

Elevated Bridge C

Junkyard Challenge B

Mission Possible C

Mousetrap Vehicle C

Physical Science lab B

Physics lab C

Pentathlon B

Trajectory B

Trajectory C

Wright Stuff B

When does my team set up for Mission Possible or Junkyard Challenge?

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Please note that for Mission Possible and Junkyard Challenge, the time you sign up for is the time your team will be testing the device. Both of these events require that you show up 30 minutes prior to the competition time so that your team can set up your device. If you show up late to your set up time, you may not be given extra time to set up and you may have to run your device for the time you signed up.

How do I schedule my team for a self-scheduled event?

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On-line scheduling of self-scheduled events will open at 3:00 PM on Wednesday, February 17, 2010 and be open for two weeks. Online scheduling will close at 3:00 PM on March 3, 2010.

No password is needed.

Teams may select competition times during those two weeks only . NOTE: A team may only schedule (and compete in) one time slot for a particular self-scheduled event.

Teams that do not schedule competition times on-line will be scheduled the day of the Science Olympiad.

How does online scheduling work?

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Once the site opens, a "Click here to sign up" button will be displayed in the available time slots. For each event, click on the button for the time slot that you would like to compete in.

Once you click the button, you will be taken to a form to provide your team information. You are required to provide you team number, school name, coach's name and email address.

Only your team number and school name will be display publicly on the sign up, and only the event organizers will have access to the other information provided.

The coach's name and email address will not be displayed on the web and are only used for contacting your team if there are any questions or problems with your sign up.

You may wish to create an undo code during the signup process. If you do so, and space is available, you will have the ability to change your time until the sign up is closed.

Once you have successfully signed up for a time, the "Click here to sign up" button will no longer be available in that table cell, and your team number and school name will be displayed.