00:30:07 Marina Milner-Bolotin: If you have too many students who want to participate and it makes sense to have two teams, let us know. In the past, we were able to accommodate two teams from larger schools. 00:32:07 Bill Deagle: We (Carihi) regularly bring 15 students and focus on 2 events each in 5 person teams....give or take the year. 00:35:00 Marina Milner-Bolotin: The goal is to enjoy doing physics, it is not about being "THE BEST"... I think every teacher whose students enjoy this event is on a winning team!!! 00:38:09 Bill Deagle: I've run "Fermi Friday" before in my PH 12 class, kids build teams, bring snacks and we run a 1 hour Fermi session, they love it!! 00:38:55 David: Hey Bill. Do you have a good source of Fermi problems, or do you write your own? 00:39:26 Bill Deagle: I've done both!! 00:40:04 Marina Milner-Bolotin: https://innovativeteachingideas.com/blog/an-excellent-collection-of-fermi-problems-for-your-class 00:40:14 David: Thanks Marina 00:40:50 Marina Milner-Bolotin: https://navajomath.math.ksu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/fermi_questions_handouts_and_lesson_plan.pdf 00:41:48 Marina Milner-Bolotin: https://www.dam.brown.edu/math-coop/presentations/Fermi.pdf 00:42:09 Daniel K. Chow: Coaches, what was your favourite prebuild? 00:44:25 Edward Liao: mousetrap powered car was one of my favourites. 00:44:40 Bill Deagle: Daniel, We loved the "Submarine Rescue Diver" (14 ish years ago...?) Can't remember the name but we had to lift a mass (elevator style) with the Ep from 2L of water.... (also a while ago... ) 00:44:47 Louay Halabi: The time machine 00:44:57 Daniel K. Chow: Cool guys 00:45:03 Alf Penner: The elastic powered flight (2019?). Afterwards I realized just releasing a fully-inflated balloon would have outperformed most of the over-engineered designs 00:45:05 Bill Deagle: I also second the Time Machine... 00:45:09 Daniel K. Chow: I like the coin sorter ... difficult but fun 00:45:37 Alf Penner: Word of advice to all pre-builds: keep it simple! over-engineered means more likely to break 00:45:58 Bill Deagle: True facts Alf!! 00:45:58 Gregory Thiessen: Coin sorter was good. Not the Elastomer Powered Aircraft - most of the planes just crashed straight away. 00:46:10 Daniel K. Chow: Rube Goldberg was crazy! Watching all those teams looking for an outlet to plug in a glue gun to fix their machines lol (ie: my team!) 00:48:00 Bill Deagle: I also enjoyed the water displacement device...turns out pumpkins/gourds are pretty good at it!! Pendulum Golf club...classic! 00:49:30 Peter Enns: Try to find someone who knows the shop. 00:50:16 Alf Penner: Agreed, Peter! Sometimes the kids who are good with their hands are often overlooked 00:52:27 Bill Deagle: Coming from the Island we make it a 2 day trip...Friday we do Science World and a TRIUMF tour...dinner out and then run an escape room downtown somewhere. Turns out many kids in our school haven't been to Van to do much at all, maybe only go to the malls. We get matching "nerd" shirts every year and they then become voices in the school for the remainder of the year that being "nerdy" is pretty damn cool.. 00:53:21 Peter Enns: I love the nerd shirt spelt in Greek. 00:53:34 Bill Deagle: that's us!!! 00:53:42 Daniel K. Chow: I tell my students that if we're going to fail, then fail fast and often. 00:55:52 Gregory Thiessen: Depends on the topics. My school has been linear in the past (switched to semester after Covid) so quite a bit of content had yet to be covered. Also, if there are AP topics related to labs or pre builds I end up helping more conceptually. 01:01:55 Alf Penner: who designs your shirts? 01:05:12 Max Botsis (he/him): As a student, I found it more interesting to learn something outside the curriculum. 01:05:14 Peter Enns: I had one class that just started Physics 11 that encountered the word "Newton" for the first time at physics Olympics 01:05:19 Max Botsis (he/him): Something fresh and new was fun on my end 01:05:39 Bill Deagle: Alf, the "Nerd" (greek) shirts are the same every year (just a matter of colour of shirt and print colour decision which is often harder than deciding what to do for the event itself.!!) The playland shirts are often designed by students from year to year...make a design and send it to the screenprinter! $25 each and off we go 01:06:09 Filip: One question, if topics outside of the curriculum are being used within the contest, how will these be introduced to the students? Will supplementary materials be required to be taught to the students beforehand? 01:09:44 Bill Deagle: I agree Louay....unfortunately our kids didn't use it the right way!!! 01:10:09 David Jamieson: Phyphox is fantastic! However, the kids are really, really thrilled to use your university lab equipment! 01:10:25 Edward Liao: I find it also difficult to supervise students who are not in the events and to try to meet as well 01:10:29 Peter Enns: Thanks to what I learned at PO, I used Phyphox to measure the height of our playground in my Science 9 weather unit. 01:11:39 Alf Penner: I'm behind. I haven't used phyphox yet. I guess I know what I'm working on now... 01:12:01 Marina Milner-Bolotin: https://phyphox.org/ 01:12:34 Aaron Boley: aaron.boley@ubc.ca 01:13:19 David Jamieson: I really appreciate all that you do for our students. 01:14:41 Bill Deagle: I've gone for 15 years...I've got 14 years left to retirement...I want to fill my rafters with t-shirts completely at school, so THANK YOU for all that you do to keep this going!! 01:15:04 Kirsty: Hi Everyone. For any questions you have after this session, please feel free to email me (Kirsty) at communications@phas.ubc.ca, and I will refer to our organizers to find you answers! 01:16:23 David: Good to hear! 01:17:20 Marina Milner-Bolotin: We will see you on Saturday, March 4th at UBC 01:17:29 Bill Deagle: thanks to you all!!! 01:17:30 Lucas Eisenberg (He/Him): Thank you! 01:17:30 Barbie Sangha: Thank you for the workshop. 01:17:32 Lorne Mallin: Thank you! 01:17:37 Daniel K. Chow: Thanks everyone! 01:17:38 Graham Hooton (he/him): Thanks so very much! I'm looking forward to this year's competition 01:17:59 Eric: Thank you for the advices. 01:18:04 Minji: Thank you 01:18:05 Priscila Yang: thanks everyone! 01:18:06 Irina hunt: Thank you 01:18:07 Alf Penner: Thanks everybody! I am so excited. Marina, my daughter is looking forward to coming 01:18:10 E16759: Thank you 01:18:14 Rhea Zhu: Thank you! 01:18:14 Louay Halabi: Thank you! 01:18:15 Daniel K. Chow: Hearts to UBC! 01:18:16 Ivy: Thank you! 01:18:17 DMoore: Thank you.