Montreal Regional Competition: Weizmann Science Physics Tournament

The competition in Montreal took place at St-George's on March 6th 2008.  The teams competing were St-George's, Herzliah, Hebrew Academy, Trafalgar, Bialik, and ourselves.  The cracking part of the competition came first.  The safes stayed in the respective team classrooms along with one member of the team, in case anything needed to be fixed and to reset the safe for the next team.  The rest of the team members rotated between safes along with an assigned timer and we were each given ten minutes to break into each safe.  We then filled in a sheet ranking every safe from one to five.  Following a short break, the official judging began.  Four judges tested our individual knowledge of the safe and the properties behind it.  We had to demonstrate how the safe worked and opened.  The final criteria for judging was the esthetics of the safe. Next we had dinner and then the public viewing began, after which the judges announced the winner: The Study!