The old 5-way
entrance is becoming a roundabout. You must enter campus at
Oxford Road and Dickey Drive.
1) ALL vans and cars should park in the Peavine
Parking Deck or the Peavine Parking Lot located to the west of the gym. All
parking is free (even if you have to take a ticket to get into the lot). Please
save what little street parking we have for busses.
2) Buses should
drop off teams either along Fraternity Row / Eagle Drive (the road with the
driveway to Peavine Lot and Deck) or along Dickey Drive BEHIND the Chemistry
building. If you stop in front of the Atwood Hall / White Hall, be very aware
whether you are blocking the road. There is very limited bus parking on campus.
Some busses can park on Dickey Drive right behind Atwood. These are car spots
labeled for faculty and staff, but if they are free, busses are welcome. More
bus parking is here near the Glenn Church: bus
parking link FISHBURN DRIVE . If these spaces are filled, then we
have unlimited bus parking at EmoryŐs Briarcliff (West) campus located
approximately a half mile from the campus on Briarcliff Rd. At the conclusion of the Olympiad
coaches may call the bus drivers to come and pick them up.
3) Directions to
Briarcliff (or West) Campus. Emory
West Campus (Briarcliff Campus)
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Take Fraternity Row to Dickey Dr.
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(R) onto Dickey Dr. to Oxford Rd.
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(R) onto Oxford Rd. to N. Decatur Rd.
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(R) onto N. Decatur Rd. to Briarcliff Rd.
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(L) onto Briarcliff Rd.
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Briarcliff campus is 1/4 mile up on your right
MISSION POSSIBLE
Dear Coaches,
All MISSION POSSIBLE event
sequences must be sent to the event supervisor Alex Chao
at gth871p@mail.gatech.edu
One page Word or pdf
documents only.
The deadline is Friday,
2/4/2011 11:59 PM
Each team will need to
provide their own helium for their balloons. We will not provide helium for the
students.
Mike
It is due AT registration.
There are two hotels within walking
distance of the Emory campus. The conference center is expensive, but sometimes
has great weekend rates.
http://www.emoryconferencecenter.com/
This option, is close (driving) and has a
pool, and is often booked!
Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites ATLANTA-EMORY UNIVERSITY
AREA. Everyone loves this place (but itŐs just a Holiday Inn)
2183
NORTH DECATUR RD. DECATUR, GA
30033 UNITED STATES
Hotel Front Desk:
1-404-320-0888
This link should show about 12 motels
along Interstate 85 between 400 and Shallowford Road (in addition to the ones
discussed above). All are sufficiently convenient to the Emory area.
Dear
Coaches,
I need to announce a major rules change for Protein
Modeling at the Emory tournament next week. We will allow each team to use ONE
laptop that they must bring themselves for the competition.
In the event that this is not possible for your team, please notify me
ASAP, and we will have a computer for your team to use.
I have tried to anticipate how this will change the
actual competition phase, and I must say except the challenge of getting a file
from the internet using a _strange_ computer, I cannot think of any. I expect
that a team will download and save the pdb files to their hard drive in
advance. This does not materially change the event. It may even improve the
competition, except of course that it puts teams without access to a laptop at
a disadvantage. I hope this is not the case, and that you can manage access to
a laptop, or that our Emory computers are adequate for a fair competition. On
the positive side, it also takes the vagaries of internet
connectivity out of play since the pdb files will be local. The rules specify internet access is not allowed (and we'll be looking over
their shoulders), and that five pages of notes ARE allowed. No changes there.
It is the weekend, and my other job (teaching) is at a bay, and I am
working furiously on the Olympiad. I will send a schedule today with locations,
and also logistical info (parking, etc.).
Best,
Michael
Sign up for
device events at:
http://www.mysignup.com/device_events
non-device sign ups
http://www.mysignup.com/events
Helicopter
Venus
The helicopter venue is on the 4th floor
of the Woodruf PE Center (a.k.a., WoodPec). It is slightly smaller than the
size of two basketball courts. It has hanging lights about 20 feet from the
floor. The ceiling slopes, varying in height between 25 feet and 33 feet. The
HVAC cannot be turned off.
A QUESTION
AND ANSWER
On Feb 1, 2011, at 7:34 PM, Science Olympiad wrote:
Professor McCormick:
Can you confirm which bird list will be used for the
Ornithology test on Saturday? Will it be the National
listhttp://www.soinc.org/ornithology_c or the Georgia list
http://www.aug.edu/gaso/6-12.html ? The rules allow us
to bring in one list and we'd like to make sure it's the correct one.
Thanks very much for your assistance.
Sincerely,
Mark Stathos
President
Chattahoochee High School Science Olympiad Team
REPLY IS
For identification, only birds from the GEORGIA list
at
http://www.aug.edu/gaso/6-12.htm