<p>I have a couple awards
and common app only allows 5 so I am not sure which one to put.
anyone want to help me?</p>
<p>Name Level
National Commended Scholar National
AIME qualifier since 8th grade (4x) National
JETS TEAMS National Finalist National
First Tier Final Score in Western Region Mandlebrot National/State?
1st Place JETS TEAMS in California for our division State
2nd Place Stanford Math Tournament General Regional
2nd Place 9th Grade :Tokutomi Japanese-American Math Contest Regional
6th Place 10th Grade: Tokutomi Japanese-American Math Contest Regional
Honorable Mention Santa Clara Math Contest Regional</p>
<p>and From the FIRST robotics team
1st seed at Lone Star Regional - (National? regional?, it has team from all over US, but technicallt regiona?)
4th seed at Silicon ValleY Regional - (?? there were Brazilian teams there) </p>
<p>so help me out?</p>
<p>(aww... Caltech doesn't take my amc 10 scores... but they are prettier than the 12 scores)</p>
<p>Hey, you do have great awards you know. My sister who got into Duke a while ago had similar stats. She's a math nerd. She's just been to the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition. So I know something about Math awards. If I were you, I would definately put
1) National Commended Scholar
2) 2nd Place Stanford Math Competition (This is very prestigious)
3) FIRST Robotics
4) 1st seed at Lone Star Regional
5) JETS TEAMS National Finalist National</p>
<p>um Stanford Math Competition is NOT that prestigious and its really local (the Bay Area), and we got free pizza. And I took one of the easier tests. some lil kids in my room was asking "what is tan? what is this sin thingy?" there was only 2 of them though lol cuz it was an HS competition.
FIRST Robotics is not a award . 1st seed at Lone Star Regional is under FIRST robotics
and I think 1st in JETS TEAMS in the State has less people than National Finalist. (there is like 50+ finalist per state) but iono, one is national sounding, one is #1 in our division in the state.</p>
<p>First Tier Final Score in Western Region Mandlebrot this makes me top 50 in the Western US</p>
<p>AIME qualifier since 8th grade (4x) is about 100 people in the whole country in my graduating class, much less of them are be girls</p>
<p>I don't think you get the level of math awards. And FIRST robotics is NOT an award, it's a program, We (students) have to fund raise $20k a year (using grants, fund raising and other stuff) , and design, machine, build, test a 120 pound robot in 6 WEEKS using only after school time. then we go to competitions with it.</p>
<p>Anyone that actually did math contests for a couple of years wants to reply?</p>
<p>oh yeah the Santa Clara one IS the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition , at Santa Clara University, Our school got the first place this year. I only got Honorable Mention from 2 years ago. oh well.. stupid silly mistakes</p>
<p>Well, its really up to you. By FIRST Robotics, I mean out anything thats meaningful to you. see which awards were hard to get and include them on your common appl.
Besides, what is Tokutomi? and JETS teams?</p>
<p>Hey, Ive figured that you need teams in FIRST Robotics. But my school is ghetto....i can probably find 2 people or none who are interested. Can i just join a team instead of creating one?</p>
<p>You'll need about 20 students and a couple of experienced parents/mentors
or nothing will be started.
We have about 60 member and 30 very active ones.
our Budget is about $20k a year and we fund raise all that every year. It's a lot of work to keep it going, but even more to get started. When you just start you don't have any reputation yet, so you only get like your registration for 1 regional waived by NASA or something, all the material and shipping and additional regionals you'll have to pay. You'll also need lots of teaching material to get students started. You have to be VERY determined and have LOT of leadership skills to get a team started. They person that started our team graduated from Harvard a year early for Stanford grad school( crazy leet guy! his sister is at RSI , math genius!!!). Teams are by schools, so and generally other school can't let you join their team for 1) transportation not convenient. 2) liability issues. There are a lot of teams in the silicon valley. all the good high schools and private school have one. (Monta Vista, Monte Vista, Lynbrook, Leland, Harker, Mitty, Bellermine, Homestead,Saratoga, Gunn, Montain View)</p>
<p>It takes a lot to get started and I am co-president of my school team right now, and spends about 10 hours a week to keep the team going. And much much more during build season. Last Friday, I spend 4 hours on just EDITING a grant with our team coach, while his son fell asleep from MIT's freshmen essay eval. thing. That's not counting the time it takes to write them. And we might not even get it.</p>
<p>However, college success wise we been really successful with sending people to top colleges. We got people to (not including the ones they got in and are not going) :Harvard, MIT, Caltech, Cornell, gazillion Berkeleys: Out of the 3 past co-presidents that i know of that applied to MIT 2 got in ( the one that didn't get in didn't have really top SAT scores), and Out of 2 that i know of that applied to Caltech, both got in. All the robotics presidents in this area had pretty good chance at all top school actually(of course they all did exceptionally well at math and science contests and had amazing skills and knowledge).
Takes a LOT of work!</p>
<p>JETS is a national competition that many top schools compete in. Just because you don't know about it doesn't mean it's nothing. You only had 1 year experience in hs.
Tokutomi is a contest that is held annually at both Japan and here, it's like a friendly/alliance contests.</p>
<p>hard to me doesn't mean prestigious to colleges, and hard doesn't always mean i got the best looking award in it.</p>
<p>active as in they go to the competitions? and shows up once in awhile during build? lol
my love my robotics boys!!!
they called me 4 AM cuz they totally missed me lol and told me they lost THE GAME!
<em>does anyone here know THE GAME?</em>
what robotics project are you doing?</p>
<p>currently, i am trying to do a voice controlled car ( supposedly i'll be able to give robot commands later on !!!) with matlab. but the only RC car i have is those mini $10 ones, it would be a pain to solder stuff on there....</p>
<p>do you need to know any knowlege in robots if you want to enter FIRST? Look I go to Adrian Wilcox high school. It's not really respected school. Trust me.</p>
<p>rainy, the hard-to-get awards do mean a lot. reflect how hard it was to get the awards on the essays. the experience you got will mean much to college. <em>at least thats what I think</em> but just do whatever you want.</p>
<p>um too many people write about getting math awards. and mine are pretty sucky. they are not enough to write about for MIT or Caltech to accept me (maybe if it's like IMO or something, lol then i won't even have to write about it), for UCs maybe. i am gonna write about my interest in hands-on in making stuff (model cars in 2nd grade, beating boys (one of them is going to MIT next year XP) in model air plane in 7th grade under a NASA retiree, and robotics.
and the thing with "hard to get " awards for math is that.. people don't study for math contests, so its really hard to tell which one is hard. the JETS national finalist thing is really good, but we never really did any prep. Stanford Math tournament thing looks great too, but i went to spend time with my math/robotics friends from my school and other school (i got #2 in the general test, my bf got like #2 on the advanced math topics! we got matching medals!!!WOOT!)</p>
<p>for robotics you need to at least know some basics
(basic how things work. have some hands on experience, some programming, some electronics knowledge) and have people that DO know what they are doing (by do know, i mean like PhD, or some very experienced people, our main mentors are all PhDs, one in EE from MIT and one in MechE)
because the competition only give you the concept of the games and 6 weeks for you to design, make parts, and build everything. If you don't have any mentors to guide you, it's basically impossible for you to even make a frame that moves (there is gears, frame design and machining, wheels picking, motor selection, optical encoders, and programing involved JUST in that) and you'll need more than just a frame that moves.</p>