Day 0: 26 May
Registration and Information
Please submit your Project
Round Part I video anytime
during this session!
Timetable (Day 0)
Time
Event
16:00 – 19:00
Registration, Payment and Project Round Part 1 Submission
16:30 – 17:30
Schedule Briefing and Update of Changes
17:30 – 18:00
Conceptual Q&A with QMs
18:00 – 19:00
Dinner*
19:00 – 21:00
Observation Briefing and Demo
*Students taking part in Junior Category may be dismissed
at 1800H
Timetable (Day 1)
Time
09:00 – 10:00
10:00 – 10:30
10:30 – 12:30
12:30 – 14:00
14:00 – 16:15
16:15 – 16:30
16:30 – 20:00
20:00 – 22:00
Event
Attendance Taking
Opening Address
Multiple Choice Questions Round
Lunch
Data Response Questions Round
Observation Round Reminders (Senior Category)*
Dinner Time & Telescope Setup
Observation Round (Senior Category)
*Students taking part in Junior Category may be dismissed at 1615H
Timetable (Day 2) *UPDATED*
Time
09:00 – 09:15
09:15 – 12:30
12:30 – 14:00
13:30 – 14:00
14:00 – 16:15
16:15 – 16:45
16:45 – 19:00
19:00 – 19:30
19:30 – 20:00
Event
Registration and Briefing
Project Round
Lunch
MCQ/DRQ Debrief (Optional)
Finals 1 (Junior Category)
Break + Refreshment
Finals 2 (Senior Category)
Prize Presentation
Interaction Time (Optional)
Briefing Agenda
01
02
03
04
Changes to
Finals
Project Round
Details
Conceptual
Q&A
AC2017
Observation
Round details
Changes to
Finals
• Jeopardy Round: 2 Segments (Individual
and Team Segment)
• More questions
• 40% weightage of the total final score
• Game Round
• 30%
• Buzzer Round
• 30%
• Blank the screen when a team
attempts to answer
*The total from finals round as mentioned above will constitute 80% of the grand total,
with 20% coming from the preliminary round score.
Project Round
Details
• On AC2017 Day 2, you will set-up a booth and
present a discussion of the question to judges. In
this segment, you are to set-up an exhibition to
elaborate more about your topic in deeper depth,
which your team might not have conveyed in the
video.
• Deeper depth refers to additional info, interesting
information
• You may wish to use any form of visual and audio
aids that you deem appropriate for the discussion.
Project Round
Details
• What is expected of you during the oral
presentation:
• ELI5
• tl;dr where necessary
• Last year feedback: Judges will TRY to be
familiar with your presentations.
• To assist, you may take some time to quickly
summarise the main ideas required for your
further elaboration.
• What is not expected of you:
• Repeat and vomit the same thing from video
• Regurgitate information
• Talking to your phone screens, paper/poster
(engage the judges!)
Project Round
Details
• On the day itself, you will be allocated a
table and a chair.
• Powerpoint is not available, you may
request but subject to approval.
• Hence please charge your laptops if needed in
advance
• Judges will be moving around, so do be
patient and wait for your turn.
Project Round
Details
Communication (Language and Ease of
understanding)
30%
Content (includes Q&A, up to 10%
deduction)
40%
Visual Aid/Presentation
20%
Teamwork
10%
• No changes to the scoring rubric; you are reminded however that
delay in submission of the video will be subjected to penalty.
• NOTE: Video contributes 40% of the Project Round score, 60% goes to
the oral presentation on Day 2.
Syllabus
• Syllabus document including the
Math and Physics expectations
• Some minor changes to wording
• General idea still remains the
same
• Formula booklet
• Familiarise
• Correction to the redshift
formula
Q&A
• Floor is open to entertain any conceptual
questions
• Questions regarding the formula booklet
• PLEASE look through and be familiar with
the formula booklet.
AC2017
Observation
Round details
• Objectives
• 1-2 Quizmaster(s) to each team
• Theory Observation Paper
• Activated in case of uncertain weather or
raining
• Rebased score to accommodate patchy skies
• Split into Team A and B to tackle different
tasks
• E.g. School X Team A and Team B
• Each made up of 2-3
• Format of Assessment
AC2017
Observation
Round details
• 4 Part assessment; Open Universe
• You will be assessed on telescope
handling
• Familiarity of equipment and night
sky
• Constellations and bright objects that
can be seen
• It is intended to be a simulation of a
sidewalk of sorts, where you are to be
aware of what can be seen and how
to find them.
Basic Rules
AC2017
Observation
Round details
• You have until 10pm to complete the
paper in a team of 5
• You may bring any reference materials,
subject to approval (submit at the start
of Day 1 during attendance taking)
• If weather/logistics prove unsuitable
• Activate theory paper if bad weather
• Theory paper may be interrupted at any
point in time if the weather improves.
Basic Rules
• What will NOT be approved
AC2017
Observation
Round details
• Extra manpower (includes any form of
communication
• Digital setting circles
• What will be approved
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Observation plans
Finding charts
Star atlases
All material must be submitted before hand
Basic Rules
AC2017
Observation
Round details
• Stellarium and other simulation software
is permitted*
• *If the theory paper is invoked, only
printed/written material will be allowed,
and only for certain components
• Reference materials are only permitted
in Part III and IV of the practical round.
• QMs reserve the right to declare other
materials as illegal without prior notice.
• In the event of wet weather,
AC2017
Observation
Round details
• We will have a theory paper in
replacement
• The theory paper will be held within
the vicinity
• Do not dismantle the set-up
• Suppose the weather is better we will
resume practical observation round.
• Detailed instructions will be given on
the day itself.
AC2017
Observation
Round details
• Theory Observation Paper
• Activated in case of uncertain
weather or raining
• Rebased score to accommodate
patchy skies
Scoring (NOTE THE CHANGES)
AC2017
Observation
Round details
• Part I: Telescope Setup (15%, all weather)
• Part II: Boresighting (15%, all weather)
• Part III: Thematic Objects (40%)
• Part IV: Free For All (FFA) Category (30%)
In the event of bad weather, the theory
paper will be weighted appropriately with
the remaining 30%
AC2017
Observation
Round details
Part I: Telescope Set-up
• You’ll have to setup and align your
telescope finder properly.
• When you are ready, inform the QM and
he/she will check the alignment and setup
• QM will sign and comment on the mark
sheet
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Observation
Round details
Part II: Boresighting
• At a specific preannounced time,
each individual in the team will
have to boresight a target
• You’ll attempt to centre an object in the
eyepiece field of view without the aid of a
finder
• All teams will start at the same time
• Each individual gets 2 attempts, after
each attempt, the QM will look into the
eyepiece first, followed by the student.
AC2017
Observation
Round details
Part II: Boresighting
• If the object is not in the field of
view after the first attempt, the
student may use the finder in the
second attempt.
• Teams may no proceed to Parts II
and IV until all its members have
cleared this round.
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Observation
Round details
Part III: Thematic Objects
• A list of objects/object descriptions
(and your observation log sheets)
will be given to you after
completion of Part II. Each object is
worth 4%.
• Upon finding the object, QM will
verify and countersign the list.
• Reference materials may be used
from this point onwards.
Part IV: FFA
• Teams may find any object that desire
in the specified list.
AC2017
Observation
Round details
• Show the object and note it in your
observation log; QM will verify and
countersign
• You are expected to know the object’s
common name/catalogue number.
• QMs may compare the image to a sky
atlas/your observation plan for reference
• You cannot repeat the objects found
in Part III
• You can however do both parts
concurrently.
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Round details
Other notes
• Object must be visible to the naked
eye through the telescope (averted
vision/slight tapping allowed)
• You should advise the QM
accordingly as if he were a member
of public.
• We have prepared OIII and UHC
light pollution filter for verification
as well.
• Head QM decision is final
AC2017
Observation
Round details
• More details on actual day.