National Ocean Sciences Bowl
Seward, Alaska, April 25-27, 2008: Tentative Schedule
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Please note that this schedule is tentative. The events listed below are not open to the public and are for student participants, volunteers and officials only.
| FRIDAY, April 25, 2008 | |
| 6:30 – 8:00 AM | PARTICIPANT BREAKFAST & Hotel check out |
| 8:05 AM | Load luggage on buses and walk to train station |
| 8:30 AM | Train departs for Seward. Lunches and snacks will be delivered to the train. (If buses are used to get to Seward, everyone will pick up their lunch and AM snack before boarding the buses.) |
| 8:30 AM – 12:30 PM | Travel to Seward. AM snacks and Lunch along the way. (There will be a naturalist with local knowledge in each bus or train car to point out interesting features and illuminate some Alaskan history.) |
| 8:30 – 11:00 AM | Buses drive to Seward, deliver luggage to hotels |
| 12:30 PM | Train arrives in Seward – all walk to hotels |
| 12:30 – 1:30 PM | Check in to hotels (Breeze Inn and Holiday Inn Express) |
| 1:30 PM | Pick up PM snack and walk to boat harbor |
| 2:00 – 5:00 PM | Resurrection Bay on Glacier Express/Renown Tours |
| 5:00 PM | Return from field trips to hotels |
| 6:45 PM | Board buses to Alaska SeaLife Center |
| 7:00 PM | DINNER, Alaska SeaLife Center |
| 7:45 or 8:00 PM | Welcome & time to view ASLC exhibits |
| 9:30 - 10:00 PM | Buses back to hotels |
| 11:00 PM | Curfew |
| SATURDAY, April 26, 2008 | COMPETITION DAY |
| 6:00 – 7:30 AM | BREAKFAST at Breeze Inn Hotel (all) |
| 7:00 – 7:25 AM | Volunteer check-in at Seward High School (SHS) |
| 7:15 AM | RCs/officials board bus at Breeze Inn for ride to SHS |
| 7:30 – 8:00 AM | Officials meeting - SHS Auditorium |
| 7:45 AM | Teams board buses to Seward High School |
| 8:20 – 9:00 AM | Welcome/Team PPT/Rules Review - All Hands SHS Auditorium |
| 9:00 – 9:20 AM | Officials to rooms/Scoring Review – Coaches/Students/RCs Auditorium |
| 9:30 – 10:15 AM | Round Robin Round 1 (3 mock ?s) (10 rooms) |
| 10:15 – 11:00 AM | Round Robin Round 2 (10 rooms) |
| 11:00 – 11:45 PM | Round Robin Round 3 (10 rooms) |
| 11:45 – 12:45 PM | LUNCH – SHS Gymnasium |
| 12:45 – 1:30 PM | Round Robin Round 4 (10 rooms) |
| 1:30 – 2:15 PM | Round Robin Round 5 (10 rooms) |
| 2:15 – 3:00 PM | Scoring and seeding for Double Elimination |
| 2:15 PM | Snack |
| 2:25 PM – 2:50 PM | IPY Speaker - Auditorium |
| 2:50 PM | Teams still in game need to find next competition |
| 3:00 – 3:45 PM | Double Elimination Round 1 (8 rooms) |
| 3:00 – ongoing | Opportunity for students not competing to meet with University reps (SHS gym) |
| 3:45 – 4:30 PM | Double Elimination Round 2 (8 rooms) |
| 4:30 – 5:15 PM | Double Elimination Round 3 (4 rooms) |
| 5:15 – 6:00 PM | Double Elimination Round 4 (4 rms/7th & 8th place) |
| 6:00 – 6:30 PM | Buses transfer people between SHS, hotels & Alaska R/R Intermodal Facility (ARSIF) |
| 6:30 – 8:00 PM | DINNER at ARSIF (BBQ/Picnic –Music/social time) |
| 9:00 PM | Return to hotels (bus or walk) |
| 11:00 PM | Curfew |
| SUNDAY, April 27, 2008 | COMPETITION DAY TWO |
| 6:00 – 7:30 AM | PARTICIPANT BREAKFAST (Breeze Inn Hotel – all) Check-out of hotels and load bags on buses. Logistics TBA. |
| 7:15 AM | Officials board buses to SHS |
| 7:30 AM | Participants board buses to SHS |
| 8:00 – 8:20 AM | All Hands –Auditorium |
| 8:30 – 9:15 AM | Double Elimination Round 5 (2 rms./5th & 6th place) |
| 9:15 – 10:00 AM | Double Elimination Round 6 (2 rooms/4th place) |
| 10:00 – 10:15 AM | Break |
| 10:15 – 11:00 AM | Double Elimination Round 7 (Auditorium/3rd place) |
| 11:00 – 11:45 AM | Double Elimination Round 8 (1st & 2nd place) |
| 11:45 – 12:30 PM | Double Elimination Round 9 (if necessary) |
| 12:00 or 12:30 PM | LUNCH at Seward High School (gym) |
| 1:30 – 2:30 PM | Awards Ceremony – SHS auditorium |
| 3:00 – 3:30 PM | Buses to take all participants downtown |
| 3:00 – 6:00 PM | Teams have free time to explore Seward |
| 6:15 – 7 PM | Meet at Marine Education Building to board buses for Anchorage (depending on flight schedules) |
| 9:30 PM | Expected arrival time in Anchorage |
| Dinner on own at restaurants in Anchorage or Seward | |
| Some teams will go to airport for late night departure, others will check in to Anchorage hotel and take the hotel shuttle to airport on Monday. |
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| MONDAY, April 28, 2008 | Throughout day - Depart Anchorage (If teams stay extra day, cost on own.) |
Schedule updated March 3, 2008