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Important Dates
15 feb 2024 Last day to register and turn in the food basket in Acciones Solidarias.
7 mar 2024 Plot Twist Event Day.
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Event Foundation
Participation and Registration
- Only students from Prepa UDEM San Pedro can participate.
- Each participant must register under these criteria:
- Commit to reading the specified 8 books.
- All books can be found in Prepa UDEM San Pedro’s library.
- Agree to be part of a team of 2 to 4 people.
- Students without a team will be assigned one.
- Each team must bring a basic food basket (canasta básica) to ensure their registration. The basket will be delivered to Casa INDI, an institution dedicated to helping those in need.
- The student must act in strict accordance with the Honor Code and the principles and values of UDEM.
Specifications of the Event
- The event will take place from 8:10 to 11:40 AM, and consists of the following stages:
- Inauguration. 3 rounds.
- The final round.
- Award ceremony and closure.
- The teams must arrive at the school’s library before 8:10 AM, where the inauguration will occur. Specifications on when and where they will compete will be clarified there.
- The students must follow the event’s schedule and return to class in case of disqualification.
- Each round will work as follows:
- The teams will sit at their assigned table from where they will participate. A member from each team will connect to the app COSMOBUZZ on their personal electronic device, as organizers will not provide any.
- Once on the app, the teams will have a digital button.
- The organizers will ask a question related to the book's content, and the teams must answer with the corresponding book title and author.
- The first team to press the button has the right to answer within 30 seconds. If their answer is wrong, the next team may respond.
- If a team presses the button before the organizers finish reading the question, they must answer with what they managed to hear.
- If the judges consider an answer incorrect, but the team says that it is correct, they will have 5 minutes to consult the book and find the quote that confirms their answer. Teams can only do this once each round.
- The team that answers correctly will earn 2 points.
- If the author or book has already been mentioned by the previous team, only 1 point will be given in case of points theft.
Awards
- The award ceremony will take place at 11:20 AM in Prepa UDEM San Pedro's library where the top three winners will be announced.
- The teams that win first, second, and third will be given a prize from the school’s library and the Modern Language Academy.
- Participants who obtain 14 points or more will receive an academic incentive from the Modern Language Academy.
Generalities
- Any circumstance not stipulated here will be resolved by the jury and the organizing committee.
Book List