About 100 high school students will compete at 蜜桃传媒鈥檚 34th annual on Saturday, Feb. 11, from 1-5:15 p.m. in Winter Hall. Team and individual awards will be handed out at a banquet, featuring Erik Lucero, site lead of Google Quantum AI in Santa Barbara, from 5:30鈥�6:30 p.m. in 蜜桃传媒鈥檚 Global Leadership Center.
Teams will compete from eight regional high schools, including La Ca帽ada, Dos Pueblos, Cate, Providence, Santa Barbara, Oaks Christian, Laguna Blanca and San Marcos.
Since it鈥檚 the 34th year of the contest, this year鈥檚 Chalk Talk, a 10-12-minute student presentation, will be about Fibonacci numbers because 34 is a Fibonacci number. 鈥淭he sequence of Fibonacci numbers starts with 1, 1,鈥� says Anna Aboud, who chairs 蜜桃传媒鈥檚 mathematics department. 鈥淎fter this, each subsequent term is obtained by adding the two previous terms. Thus, the sequence continues with 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, etc.鈥�
This year鈥檚 T-shirt design has a picture of the Fibonacci spiral as well as a formula for the nth Fibonacci number. 鈥淯sing squares of side lengths given by the Fibonacci numbers, you can draw a Fibonacci spiral, which approximates the golden spiral, a prominent shape found in nature and art,鈥� Aboud says.
The Field Day also features the annual College Bowl competition complete with buzzers, modeled after the 1960鈥檚 TV show, College Bowl.
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