SQUEEEZEFLUX

WEBSITEsqueeeze.upcircuit.org

E-MAILupcircuit.squeeeze@gmail.com

FACEBOOKfb.com/upcircuit.squeeeze

ADDRESSUP Electrical and Electronics Engineering Institute, Velasquez Street, UP Diliman, Quezon City

INTER-COLLEGIATE EEE QUIZ SHOWNovember 24-25, 2017

CIRCUIT SPR INTNovember 24, 2017

INTER-H IGH SCHOOL EEE QUIZ SHOWNovember 20, 2017

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MECHANICS

QUALIFICATIONS

A maximum of three (3) teams are allowed to join per school.

Schools with multiple autonomous campuses or branches are

only allowed up to three (3) teams per campus or branch to

join.

Each team shall be composed of three (3) students and one

(1) alternate from the same school. The students must be

currently enrolled in the school. They can be at any year level,

but it is suggested that they are in their senior years due to

the topics included in the competition.

A maximum of two (2) coaches are allowed per school.

The coaches must be bonafide faculty members of the same

school the students of the team are enrolled in.

Coaches are allowed to register for more than one team in

their school.

Letters of certification of the coaches’ and participants’

qualifications from the principal of their respective schools

shall be submitted on or prior to the registration period on

November 20, 2017.

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REGISTRATION

Teams may submit their registration via email (upcircuit.

squeeeze@gmail.com) or they may accomplish the online

registration form at (squeeeze.upcircuit.org/register). Duly

accomplished forms may also be submitted to any member of

the Registration Committee during the registration period on

November 20, 2017.

Only schools that submit on or before November 6, 2017 will

be included in the souvenir program.

There will be no registration fee. The teams can make changes

to their lineup or coaches until the day of the event. There will

be lunch for the contestants and the coaches, and a souvenir

program.

Only the first fifteen (15) teams to register will be considered.

NOTE: Teams can check in on the venue of the 21st SquEEEze

workshop at least 15 minutes before it begins. At least a

coach and three (3) members of the team are required

to show up, with their valid IDs and/or proofs of enrollment

to show that they are currently enrolled in their respective

schools. Teams that come in later are not forbidden. They

may still attend the workshop. However, there wouldn’t be

any lesson repetition from the main facilitator. They just have

to pick up what’s currently taught or ask if their assistant can

crash course them.

SCOPE

The 21st SquEEEze is composed of one (1) workshop and

two (2) competition rounds — Elimination Round, and Final

Round - for high school participants.

The questions of the competition will be from the following

categories:CATEGORY TOPICSMATH Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry

SCIENCE General Science, Chemistry, Physics

BASIC CIRCUITRY Circuit Theory, Digital Logic

WORKSHOP GUIDELINES

The teams’ alternates are encouraged to join the workshop.

Teams are expected to behave properly

as part of proper conduct.

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Cellular phones and other mobile communication devices shall

be in silent mode or switched off. If a phone goes off during

the workshop, the assistants will personally turn it off and give

you a warning.

Assistants will be present in the workshop should the

participants have any concerns.

Anyone can leave the room anytime but the workshop will not

pause for them.

Eating or drinking is not allowed inside the room.

During the workshop proper, these are the expected topics to

be taught:

Voltage, Current, Resistance

Ohm’s Law

Kirchhoff’s Circuit and Voltage Laws (KCL, KVL)

Current and Voltage Division

Logic Gates

Boolean Algebra

GENERAL COMPETITION GUIDELINES

Calculator

Only one calculator will be allowed for each team member.

Contestants are limited to use calculators that do not have

graphing or programmable capabilities; inspection will

be made before each round starts.

All calculators will be reset before the start of each round.

Cellular Phones and other Mobile Communication Devices

All communication devices should be in silent mode, or

preferably switched off during the contest proper.

If a cellular phone goes off or is used during the exam, the

phone will be placed under the custody of the proctor and

will be returned at the end of the exam. The phone owner’s

privacy will be kept.

Going out of the examination room

Examinees are not allowed to go out of the room once the

exam starts, until the given time expires.

Questions

Questions may only be addressed to the proctors.

Questions will be limited to clarifications

of the given or the validity of the problems.

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Only team members actively participating will be allowed to

ask questions.

Answers

Answers should be in simplest form.

Unless otherwise specified, non-integer numerical

answers should be rounded off to four (4) decimal places.

All answers should have appropriate units.

Alternate Member

Teams will be given a chance to switch their alternate

member with a member of the team before the start of each

round if they deem it necessary.

If a student is found to break a rule, that student’s team is

disqualified and immediately eliminated from the contest.

UP Circuit reserves the right to change part of the rules and

regulations to further improve the conduct of the event.

ELIMINATION ROUND

This stage will test the written knowledge, skill and speed of

the students. It is designed to see how many questions they

can correctly answer in a limited amount of time.

Three (3) students per team will take a written examination

individually.

Only students registered as member or alternate for the team

will be allowed to participate.

One (1) hour and thirty (30) minutes will be provided to

answer the given exam.

The exam has three (3) parts: Easy, Average, and Difficult.

Each part is composed of eight (8) questions for a total of

twenty-four (24) questions.

Correctly answered questions will be credited based on

the difficulty. No deductions will be given for incorrect or

unanswered questions.

DIFFICULTY POINTS PER QUESTIONEASY 1

AVERAGE 3

DIFFICULT 6

A seating arrangement will be assigned for each participant.

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No discussion will be allowed between participants for the

duration of the round.

As the exam time expires, all papers will be collected by the

proctors.

The score of a team will be the sum of the individual scores

of the members of the team.

The ten (10) teams with the highest scores will advance to

the next round.

In case of a tie, the following rules will apply:

The individual scores of each member of the team will be

compared.

The team with the higher top individual score will

advance to the next round.

If the top individual scores are the same, the next top

individual score will be compared. The rule stated

above will also be applied.

If the method above does not settle the issue, the teams

involved in the tie after applying the previous rule will be

asked to answer a tiebreaker question as a group. After

giving the question, the teams will be allowed to continually

give answers within the allotted time. The team with the

first correct answer will advance to the next round.

Scores of this examination will not be released.

The top three (3) individual participants with the highest

scores will be given special recognition.

FINAL ROUND

The Final Round will consist of questions specially made to

test both the conceptual and technical understanding of the

subject matter. It is designed in a way that the questions

are difficult and tricky that it will need a group with the most

strategy, knowledge, accuracy, teamwork and guts to win.

The Final Round will be the last stage of SquEEEze.

The team will work as a group to answer the questions.

The scores of the teams in the Elimination Round will not be

carried over to the Final Round; hence, their scores will be

reverted back to zero (0).

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This round is comprised of forty-eight (48) questions. Each

question must be answered within the time limit. If the

team’s answer is correct, they will be awarded points that

correspond to the question’s difficulty. No deductions will be

given for incorrect or unanswered questions.

DIFFICULTY NUMBER OF QUESTIONS

POINTS PER QUESTION

TIME LIMIT (SECONDS)

EASY 16 1 10

AVERAGE 16 3 30

DIFFICULT 16 6 60

Teams will take turns in selecting the topic and difficulty of

the question (e.g. Team A will select the topic and difficulty for

the first question, Team B will select the topic and difficulty for

the second question, and so on).

The quizmaster will read the question twice. Contestants are

only allowed to write or to use their calculators after the

quizmaster has given the signal “Go” or “Timer starts now”.

Teams who fail to comply will be penalized. The team will be

warned on the first offense; the team’s answer will be void on

the second offense; and the team will be disqualified on the

third offense.

Boards will be provided for the answers. Final answers will

be raised after the timer expires. Only the answer written on

the board will be considered. If a team is caught changing

or still writing their answers after the timer stops, the team’s

answer will be void on the first offense, and the team will be

disqualified on the second offense.

Questions will only be entertained before the quizmaster

reads the next question.

The decisions of the panel of judges will be final.

The round will end after thirty (30) questions are given. Note

that this means eighteen (18) questions from the pool will

remain unanswered.

Teams that have accumulated the highest number of points

at the end of the Final Round will be considered the winners.

The ranking of the teams will also depend on this cumulative

score.

In case of a tie for the top three spots, a best-of-five face-

off will be used as a tiebreaker. The team who will be able to

answer the most number of questions correctly will obtain

the higher rank.

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P5,000IN CASH PLUS TROPHY AND MEDALS

CHAMPION

PRIZES

All participants will be given certificates of participation and

souvenir programs at the end of the program.

P5,000IN CASH PLUS TROPHY AND MEDALS

ACCOMMODATIONS

If the participating team is from outside of Metro Manila,

we can arrange accommodations for the whole delegation.

An estimated lodging fee of Php 1,000.00 in addition to the

registration fee. All teams per school may be accommodated

as long as there are still rooms available in the chosen lodging.

Deadline for accommodation confirmation is on November 10,

2017. The school shall pay for the flight or travel tickets and

transportation fares.

For further inquiries regarding the event, you can email us at

upcircuit.squeeeze@gmail.com, or contact Jeremy Lapiz (+63

998 889 7910) or Kiel Hizon (+63 929 836 5553).