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Teachers, here are five tips to jumpstart your year and get the most out of your Orion software.Tip 1: Check Your Orion and Athena SuppliesYou won’t want to run out of targets early in the school year. Go ahead and check your supplies of Orion targets and Athena paper rolls....

magine for a moment, going to a baseball game this summer and not knowing how the home team is doing because there is no scoreboard. Or what about trying to watch your alma mater on television playing in an NCAA tournament, but you do not know which team is ahead...

At Scopos we have a singular mission: “to use leading-edge technologies to improve marksmanship in athletes, and turn shooting into a spectator sport.” When I began studying this problem over a decade ago, I realized an initial and necessary step would be to solve the scoring problem.The scoring problem is...

Rulebooks are great about telling you the explicit requirements for running your match. Time limits, range commands, and tie breaking are all subjects rulebooks teach you. But they fail to teach you all the implicit requirements to run a successful match. For example, rulebooks will tell you how to rank competitors, but...

Coaches, we get it. You don't have a lot of time during the week, and need to make your practice sessions go as smoothly as possible. You might even think you don't have the time to set up a match in Orion, and instead want to just hand score all...

Learning to use and master Orion comes down to a single rule: "never use Orion for the first time at a match." In fact, this is true for both Orion and Athena. These systems are not difficult to use, but there is a learning curve. To run a successful competition...

The Basic Marksmanship Course (BMC) target was created by the Civilian Marksmanship Program, about 20 years ago, as a means to help introduce brand new athletes to air rifle shooting. The target has the same aiming bull dimensions as the standard air rifle target, but with scoring rings three times...

Two weeks ago, Scopos announced Score History, a powerful new tool built into Rezults that lets athletes track all of their scores online. Regardless of the course of fire, where those scores were shot, or if they were practice or competition. A key concept behind this new feature is called...

Orion's scannable scorecard technology is intended for disciplines such as high power rifle, silhouette, or shotgun. In these disciplines the target is physically impossible to scan, but there is an existing well known method of scoring in the field. With Orion Scorecards scorers fill in bubbles corresponding to the athlete's score on...