<p>wait, can u describe this banner more? do all high schools get a banner? do high schools get notified of semifinalists?</p>
<p>It could just be a matter of where people live...I'm on the West Coast, and Siemens is on the East Coast, so it may simply be taking some time to arrive.</p>
<p>As for the banner, well, I'm homeschooled (yeah, you can figure out who I am), so I'll be in stitches if "we" get a banner!</p>
<p>ahhh i'm so nervous bout the regional finalist call, especially since it can come anywhere between friday and sunday!</p>
<p>Hey guys, what region are you all from? I'm from the Middle States (I think a record number of New Yorkers won this year).</p>
<p>I have the power to Avalon's identity!!!!</p>
<p>I have the power!</p>
<p>Thundercats rules.......</p>
<p>any speculation on what the prize packages will be (for semis)?</p>
<p>a backpack lol</p>
<p>no you also get a camera</p>
<p>my bad about the ipods..they were actually given in the national finals</p>
<p>semis get cameras?! WHAT?! and i thought i was special last year :(</p>
<p>good digital camera??</p>
<p>its okay.</p>
<p>Kodak Easy Share 3.2 megapixel.</p>
<p>zogoto, what's regional finals like? You just go for two days, present, and find out who won?</p>
<p>i wish there were more national finalists.. also this whole team concept is dumb!! i want more individual finalists like intel!</p>
<p>Regional finals are fun. You sit through ten 12 minutes presentatinos (but they're good), with a 12 minutes break between each one (the Q&A session occurs in a private room for the group that just presented). This part is about 4 hours and is probably the most boring. You get to hang out with the other finalists in the area around the university. It's fun (but not as fun as ISEF).</p>
<p>how do u prepare for presentations? is everyone ultra-prepared caus we don't have much time to prepare? how much weightage is given to the presentations, questions, and papers?</p>
<p>were there actually 150 ind. semifinalists and 150 team semifinalists?? that would mean a mininimum of 450 names and probably more. i dont think there were 450 names there.. do u think the teams are lacking or both?</p>
<p>There were 335 names.</p>
<p>I'm thinking there are about twice as many individual semifinalists as team semifinalists.</p>
<p>OK, let's figure this out. Teams can be comprised of 2 or 3 people. Looking at last year's results, it appears that it is much more common for teams of 2 to enter. We have 335 students this year, so that's automatically 35 teams (the 35 students above 300 HAVE to be "attached" to someone else). Now the website says that "up to" 300 projects are chosen. I suppose it's highly unlikely that all teams had only two students (don't get me wrong -- it's indeed possible), so let's say that 20% of the teams had three. That would give us 85 students comprising 35 teams (if that's the case, then the odds of going to regional finals as a team look very good). That would also give us 250 individual semifinalists (not good for regional finals!). Again, we don't know how many team projects there were, or what percentage of teams had 3 people. I suspect that high schools that are heavily represented on that semifinalist list have several teams...or pushy science teachers. Additionally, there could be signifcantly fewer than 300 projects, in which case there would be fewer individual semifinalists, but this is a ballpark estimate. (Does my reasoning sound OK?)</p>
<p>individual caps at 150 for sure.. look at website.. 150 max.</p>