Durham Tournament

Announcements

March 2, 2019

Good morning all,

I hope that you had a great day yesterday, a huge thank you to Linda & Willow for organizing and a special thanks to so many of you who helped us find volunteers to make things run smoothly yesterday.

Feb 28, 21019

Hi, coaches!

As promised, it’s my night before the Friday before the tournament email!  We’re making final preparations for our tournament on Saturday, March 2 at Riverside High School.

A few quick things:

• Jason Painter (NCSO), Willow Alston-Socha, and Linda Tugurian will be on hand to help throughout the day on Saturday.  Willow’s cell number is: 910.574.1999 and mine is 919.599.2574.  Please contact us with questions—but not after 9:00 p.m. on Friday night, if you can help it.  We’ll be up VERY early on Saturday morning.
• As I’m about to send this out, I’ve received a note from a volunteer suggesting we may be able to pull off the Duct Tape Challenge C Trial.  If you can hold out for an announcement on Saturday, maybe we can still pull this off.  I really hate to cancel if we don’t have to.  Give me a few more hours to work the magic.  Since it’s between the end of period 4 and the awards ceremony, it shouldn’t conflict with any event.
• We will be at Riverside on Friday, beginning at 4:30 p.m. for pre-registration.  We encourage you to take advantage of this opportunity to avoid the lines on Saturday morning.  We hope to finish pre-registration by 5:15.  If you are running late, call and check to see if we are still on site.  Registration on Saturday morning begins at 7:30 AM.
• We are planning to have a performance of the Sounds of Music instrumentalist just before our awards ceremony.  Please encourage your students participating in Sounds of Music to play!
• Please remember that everybody working on Saturday, aside from our custodial staff, is a VOLUNTEER.  Each one has given generously of their time and talent to help make this tournament possible and to help our students HAVE FUN DOING SCIENCE.  Please help us honor their efforts with kindness and respect.
• Thank you in advance for your efforts to make sure your homebase space is neat and tidy for teachers returning to school on Monday.  We VERY much appreciate your help in this.

I think that’s it!  See you Saturday—let’s have a great tournament!

Feb 25, 2019

Coaches,

We are counting down to March 2!  Hope your preparations are going well!

A few announcements:

1. We are still short on volunteers, especially for these events:  Density Lab B, Dynamic Planet C, Elastic Launched Gliders, Geologic Mapping C, Herpetology B, Meteorology B, Ping Pong Parachute B, Sounds of Music C, Wright Stuff C, Write It, Do It B.  I’m trusting that it will all come together this week, but if you have any leads on extra volunteers, we’d greatly appreciate you sending them to:  https://statescioly.org/nc/Volunteer/EventSignup/c317036b-c83f-45da-887f-804094320428
2. It looks like we may NOT be able to run the trial event Duct Tape Challenge C because we’re short on volunteers for this event. Look for an update on Friday on this, but prepare your students in case we are not able to run it.
3. Several of you have asked about the dimensions of the gyms.  Here are my best estimates:

Aux Gym:  height: 24-30 feet (it is sloped), dimensions: 100’ x 64’ / 64,000 sq ft.

Main Gym:  height:  28-32 feet (it is sloped), dimensions:  100’ x 125’ / 12,500 sq ft.

4. We will have pre-registration on-site at Riverside on Friday, beginning at 4:30.  We hope to close that by 5:15.  Please call me at 919.599.2574 if you are coming but concerned that we may have left.  We strongly encourage you to take advantage of this opportunity to miss the crowds on Saturday morning.
5. As of this moment there are no changes in the schedules or homebases.  Both are attached.
6. Food orders (if you are ordering food through the Riverside Engineering group) are due on February 28.  Information appears below.
7. We are planning to have a performance of the Sounds of Music instrumentalist just before our awards ceremony.  Please encourage your students participating in Sounds of Music to play!

Thanks, all!  See you on Friday or Saturday!

Feb 19, 2019

Sorry for the extra email today! I forgot to send out the additional information for ordering your food for the Durham Regional Science Olympiad online.  You can also order online!  See below!

We are taking pre-orders for lunch at the Science Olympiad!  Available options include Chick-Fil-A sandwiches, pizza and hot dogs.  Additionally, we are offering a variety of chips and drinks.

Three ways to order:

Online with Credit Card Payment

If you wish to order and pay ahead with a credit card, you can place your order at our online store.  We are asking that online payments be for a minimum of $10.  If you wish to order ahead and pay the day of the event, please see the next section.

Online Order with Payment Day of Event

If you wish to order ahead, but pay on the day of the event, please complete this OrderForm.  You will receive an e-mailed confirmation of your order.

Paper Form

You may complete the attached Order Form, scan it, and e-mail it to repactreasurer@gmail.com.  Payment will need to be made on the day of the event.  You can also print out this form or forward it to team members as an easy way to share the menu and to track your team’s order.

The deadline for ordering is Thursday, February 28th.

Payment on the day of the event can be made with cash, credit card, or check.

Any questions?  Please send them to Amanda Powell at sarmbpowell@gmail.com or repactreasurer@gmail.com.

Thank you!

Riverside Engineering Parent Action Council

Feb 19, 2019

Good Evening Coaches!

Hope y’all are doing well and anticipating the start to competition season in just under 2 weeks!

This email has some important information pertaining to Avogadro and Google Forms so please bear with me.

1. If you have not self-scheduled and added team members to Avogadro, please do so today! Self-scheduling closes this Friday 2/22/19 at 5 PM. After 2/22/19 – you will need to email me your self-schedule choices. Here is the website link.

2. Division C – please note that Duct Tape Challenge has been added as a self-schedule trial event. If your team would like to participate please schedule yourself.

3. If you have not had your parents fill out the Google Consent Form – Paper copy, (Spanish version here) please send that out ASAP!

4. If your team has not filled out the Vandalism & Behavior form, please remember to have your students and principal sign that and bring it with you to check in on 3/2/19.

Your students will not compete if these are not completed before the competition begins.

If you have any questions leading up to the tournament or run into any issues, feel free to send me an email.

Best of Luck on March 2nd!
Tim M.
Coaches Contact

Feb 15, 2019

Hi!  Hope you all are having a fabulous Friday.

I have updated schedules and homebase assignments for you, which are posted above.  These are subject to revisions, so please know that you will receive updated copies at the tournament.  If, as you review these, you identify potential concerns please let me know ASAP so we can try to incorporate changes.

We are much tighter on space this year, so while I’ll do my best to accommodate your needs, I hope that you will be understanding of our constraints as well.

We will have pre-registration on Friday, March 1 in the lobby of Riverside High School beginning at 4:30 and ending by 5:30 p.m.  Please take advantage of this opportunity to avoid the crowds on Saturday morning!

We are still in need of volunteers.  There are several NCSO events across the state on March 2 and it seems to be taxing our regular pool of volunteers.  Please help us recruit additional volunteers!

Here’s the request that I sent out, which you may include in your ask:

Hope you are well!  We are still in need of some volunteers for our Durham Regional Division B & C Science Olympiad tournament, to be held this season on March 2, 2019 at Riverside High School in Durham, NC.

 If you’ve already signed up, THANK YOU!!!!  If you haven’t had a chance to sign up, but have been meaning to, now is the perfect time!  To sign up, please visit our volunteer registration page.  If you are interested in serving as an event leader please contact me by email to let me know your event preference.

If you can’t join us on March 2, we welcome your involvement in our Division A Durham Regional Science Olympiad on April 6.  You can sign up for that tournament here.  And, if you aren’t available for either, but know someone who might like to volunteer, please pass this email along to him/her.

You can learn more about our tournaments at our Durham Regional Science Olympiad webpage, which will be updated regularly as we approach the date of our first tournament on March 2.

Thanks for your help!  Looking forward to seeing you on March 2 (or March 1 for pre-registration).

January 22, 2019

Hello Everyone!

Competition season is approaching quickly and it is time for the emails to begin! Please bear with the length of this email and read all the way through as each part includes important information regarding forms and Avogadro.

At some point today, everyone will receive a google form with permission/photo consent information in it. Every student on the team must have this form on file to compete. If Google Forms are new to you, there is a tutorial video to help you. Here is the link.

If some of your parents don’t have internet access, you can use the attached Paper copy, (Spanish version here) but please limit this unless absolutely necessary. We have to scan every one of these papers and keep them and with 18,000 students participating this year, it’s a bit overwhelming and cumbersome.

As in years past we will be using Avogadro for scoring and team member registration. If you have not tried to log in to Avogadro yet, please do so today! Here is the website.

Your login is your username (not your email address), which I will send you individually later today. I have attached the user manual to this email, and here is a video to help you get started on this:

Make sure to also watch this video: – it explains why we use self-scheduling.

You need to login and self-schedule in to the walk-in events – this opens at 7am on January 22nd and closes at 5pm on February 22nd. After Feb 22nd, you must email me to change your self-schedule selections. Your team members do not have to be filled out to do this part.

You will need to turn in the Vandalism & Behavior form signed by you, your principal, and your students. 1 per team. This form is attached and can also be found on the website.

If you have any questions feel free to email me back!

Regards,
Tim M.
Coaches Contact

January 11, 2019

Hope you are well!

We are beginning to gear up for the 2019 Durham Regional Science Olympiad tournaments!  There are three things that I’d like to bring to your immediate attention.

1.  We’d love for coaches to help us round up volunteers for our events.  Generally, we hope that each team can supply at least one volunteer for events (more is better).  Please share the links for our March 2 Durham Regional B/C Division tournament and/or the April 6 Durham Regional A Division tournament volunteer sign-ups.  We VERY much appreciate your help in this.
2. We have scheduled a Coaches Q&A session for the Durham Regional tournaments on February 5 from 4:30-5:30 p.m. in the Media Center at Riverside High School (Durham).  During this session, we will have a representative from NCSO on hand to answer questions about specific events.  You’ll also have a chance to see the facility (Riverside is the location for the B/C Division and Southern is set up on a similar blueprint, so the buildings are very similar) and to ask questions of the tournament directors.  No sign up is required for this session.  We did this last year and coaches found it VERY helpful, so I encourage you to attend.
3. We have a Durham Regional website that we have begun using to post information.  This is just an additional place you can find information.  If you haven’t participated in one of our Durham Regional Tournaments, you may find this a useful way to get more familiar with our location.

Thanks so much for your support of our Durham Regional tournaments.  Willow Alston-Socha (Director, Division A tournament) and I will be in touch soon with finalized schedules, homebase assignments, and much, much more!

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Linda P. Tugurian, PhD NBCT
Specialist-6-12 Science

Durham Public Schools

511 Cleveland St.

PO Box 30002
Durham, NC 27702
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919-560-2000 Ext. 21659, 919-560-2647 /  Linda.Tugurian@dpsnc.net

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