2020 Princeton Invitational

[CrayolaCrayon]

Anybody know the wright stuff top flight times?

I wouldn't say this invy was a valid indicator of WS performance whatsoever. Venue was too small for most planes, and the drafts from the main door often hurt a lot of flights.

[ET2020]

Anyone know what the top PPP times were? (and also what the height of the room was?)

[poptrop459]

Pretty well-run tournament overall!

Circuit Lab (4): The questions weren't impossible, but the test was flat out too long. We scored less than 50 percent on it due to the time crunch between labs and the questions.

Machines (27): Lmao. Our build was way too small to hold the masses, so we failed that part. The test was really good and had the right number of problems.

ExD (16): Really liked the experiment this time around! It was kind of rip setting up tho, since getting a multimeter reading is pretty annoying when the wires are deep within a box.

[builderguy135]

Anyone know what the top PPP times were? (and also what the height of the room was?)

1. 49
2. 4x
3. 3x
4. ?
5. ?
6. 2x

height was "11 meters" (36 ft), but based on rocket launches, usuable height was more around the low 30s.

[bromothymol]

as always, everything went really smoothly and the stickers were quite nice!! :DD

anatomy (1): this test was written by the same ES as MIT, so still a very good test that was very stressful to take in 50 minutes. I thought it was interesting that there were stations going on at the same time as the actual test and you had the choice of how you wanted to split your time

designer (1): test was kinda short and I guess after taking MIT and YUSO, my perception of difficulty was skewed cause this felt way easier. definitely didn't see any problem solving on it.

protein (1): some of the questions were kinda weird like the one about the trans configuration but overall the test was good. I was mainly just working on the mc and first bit of the open-ended so idk how the rest of the test was

xd (8): I noticed a lot of teams having trouble with the multimeter (at no fault of the ES ofc it was just kinda hard to figure out). also the cardboard box situation kinda confused me lol because otherwise how do you see if people are actually conducting experiments or not since no one was walking around to look specifically

we had the same issue with Jadwin Hall, but obviously not much can be done about that. I had a fun day overall, thanks PUSO!

[jaggie34]

Anyone know what the top PPP times were? (and also what the height of the room was?)

1. 49
2. 4x
3. 3x
4. ?
5. ?
6. 2x

height was "11 meters" (36 ft), but based on rocket launches, usuable height was more around the low 30s.

5th was about 22-23 seconds, and the ES mentioned to me times of 46 seconds, 29 seconds, and 26 seconds which might fill in the blanks

[AngelMB]

Circuit Lab (4): The questions weren't impossible, but the test was flat out too long. We scored less than 50 percent on it due to the time crunch between labs and the questions.

My partner and I got ~50% of the points on the MIT test (which was written by the same ES and was around 25% longer), but still managed to get first just because the test was a time crunch for everyone.

I'd argue that longer tests are wayyy better than shorter tests, it allows for teams to better distinguish themselves if they have a good test taking strategy down / know what they're doing on the test. Not to mention it helps score distributions end up being more spread out and not just clumped together.

[Tendan]

Anyone know what the top PPP times were? (and also what the height of the room was?)

1. 49
2. 4x
3. 3x
4. ?
5. ?
6. 2x

height was "11 meters" (36 ft), but based on rocket launches, usuable height was more around the low 30s.

5th was about 22-23 seconds, and the ES mentioned to me times of 46 seconds, 29 seconds, and 26 seconds which might fill in the blanks

Keep in mind that those times might be because of that vent pushing parachutes back up.

[jaggie34]

1. 49
2. 4x
3. 3x
4. ?
5. ?
6. 2x

height was "11 meters" (36 ft), but based on rocket launches, usuable height was more around the low 30s.

5th was about 22-23 seconds, and the ES mentioned to me times of 46 seconds, 29 seconds, and 26 seconds which might fill in the blanks

Keep in mind that those times might be because of that vent pushing parachutes back up.

I know the 46 second and 29 second time both hit the updraft in the room, with the 46 second run apparently even being pushed higher.

[builderguy135]

5th was about 22-23 seconds, and the ES mentioned to me times of 46 seconds, 29 seconds, and 26 seconds which might fill in the blanks

Keep in mind that those times might be because of that vent pushing parachutes back up.

I know the 46 second and 29 second time both hit the updraft in the room, with the 46 second run apparently even being pushed higher.

Ours did too, lol.