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About Trig-Star
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| Local land surveyors in your community and throughout the state sponsor the Trig-Star contests. Therefore, there are no registration fees required for students to participate. The test will be administered by SDSPLS members and is a timed exam. All participants will be given 60 minutes to complete the exam, with their times recorded on the exam when they have competed them. This completion time will be used in case of identical scores, with the quickest completion time being the tiebreaker. The contest incorporates the use of complex trigonometric functions including right triangle formulas, the law of sines and the law of cosines to solve real problems typical of problems encountered in the surveying and mapping professions. The test will contain problem(s) working with angles using the degree-minute-second format, to the nearest second, with distances and/or lengths in decimals of feet usually to a hundredth of a foot. Calculators capable of trig functions will be allowed, however the use of calculators with coordinate geometry and/or triangle solution programs will not be allowed. If students have any of these programs loaded in their calculators, they must be deprogrammed prior to the exam. The Trig-Star Miscellaneous Data sheet in the sample problem packet will be furnished to every contestant. Textbooks and notes are also allowed. Cell phones must be turned off during the exam, A sample test may be downloaded from the SDSPLS website at www.sdspls.org . SDSPLS members will provide volunteers to administer the local tests. At the completion of the grading, the top three individuals will be awarded prizes. The awards are as follows: 1 st Place: $100 2nd Place: $ 50 3rd Place: $ 25 The State champion will also compete in the National contest with scholarship awards of $2000, $1000 and $500 with the student's trigonometry teachers receiving Teacher Excellence Awards in the amounts of $1000, $500, and $250, respectively. Testing Dates: Local (chapter) contest will be administered on Monday, May 9, 2011 in the EE/Physics Bldg. on the SDSM&T Campus in Rapid City in conjunction with the West River Math Contest hosted by the mathematics department at SDSM&T. The State Trig-Star coordinator will submit the State Trig-Star winner to the National Society of Professional Surveyors (NSPS) by May 15, 2011. The National test will be administered to the State winner following the submission of the winner's name to NSPS. This test will be administered by SDSPLS and returned to NSPS with a postmark no later than July 1, 2011. |
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South Dakota
Society of
Professional Land
Surveyors
PO Box 8154
Rapid City, South Dakota 57709
605.348.1538