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BOO YA! Who da' man!? :D

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zippy

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Well folks, the answer to that is ME! 😀

My school's Science Olympiad team is hard as hell to make considering we got 4th in the NATION last year and a LOT of people try out for it. Well, I made the team...I am the only Sophomore who made the team. 🙂

Sorry, just thought I'd brag! 😀

Heh, I knew I had made the team 3 weeks ago (when the "head coach" (my chem teacher)) told me- but today it became official. 🙂

Oh, did I mention how SWEET this looks on a college application?! It's niiiice. 🙂 It is, of course hella fun too and I've learned a lot. 🙂 Not to mention, I get a free trip to Colorado Springs, CO WHEN we go to Colorado for Nationals (we are expecting to make it...we know we still have to try hard, but it's like a weird little motivation that we WILL make it 🙂).
 
Last year they took only one freshman at my school, and it wasn't me! This year, they took only one sophomore too, and it was the same guy. I don't know if it was biased because he made it last year. This sucks, now I have to build something to see if I can make the team from the building tryouts they are having.

BTW Sorry, got carried away. Congratulations, I know how hard it is to make the team. 😉
 
Sweet Sassy Molassy! (hehe - your Booya! reminded me of a funny SNL skit with Ray Romano where he says this <---)

Good stuff, zippy!
 
thelanx, a freshman made it at your school!? WTF?! That is absurd, at mine they say that they don't rule out freshman for the main team (the &quot;Varsity&quot; team if you will that competes at regionals, states, and nationals...the &quot;JV&quot; team only competes at regionals and 2-3 of that team travels with the &quot;Varsity&quot; team) but really, they have NO chance! 😀

Anyway, what events did you try for/are you trying for? Good luck man! 🙂

nate, yeah...so? I bet I could take your geeky ass any day! 😉

Thanks everyone! 😀 I'm on top of the world today (the 100% on my History test didn't hurt either!)! 😀
 
We didn't have Science Olympiad in my high school, we had Scholastic Bowl. I was sixth in the conference in toss up(individual questions), and my team also had the #1 toss up guy in conference. We won conference that year 🙂
 
BTW - Congrats Zippy!. If your team is anything like my team in highschool, it's one of the most fun loving teams that you'll ever be on.
 
Thanks. For the last two years, they have taken one freshman and one sophomore. One freshman is guaranteed a spot. Everyone else can participate in the JV team (No medal though, and your team and score doesn't even count). If they had taken two people, I would have had a very good chance of making the team. Oh well, the building tryouts are only for events no one on the Varsity wants to do. I'm doing scrambler. Tryouts are this week. 🙂
 
vi_edit, your Scholastic Bowl is kind of like the Quiz Bowl we have at our school. I actually made the team for Quiz Bowl. It is a little easier to make the team, but still very hard.
 
thelanx...scrambler?! Whoa...good luck man. 🙂 Better brush up on your physics so you know how far you have the wind the string or whatever to make it go the exact distance. 😀

I was on my middle school's quiz bowl team in 8th grade- everyone (in 7th/8th grade) took a test and the top 10 made the team. I made it, it was really easy and we our score got somewhere between 3rd and 6th in the state--I don't remember! 😱 We did about 3 practice rounds on three separate days after school then did the real test and we did well. 🙂
 
That's kind of how we did it in middle school too, but in High School it's different. We have buzzers for each person. Points go to your team, and if you get a question wrong, your team cannot answer again. There are multiple tournaments. It's really interesting and fun.

Scrambler is especially hard this year because you need to carry a 2.2 kilo weight with the car. I hope I make the team. 🙂
 
Oh, my school was we had a computer hooked up to a projector and someone would sit at the computer and click the answer we decided on. The quicker we answer the question the more points. Then the teacher in charge would call in (email in? I don't remember) the score we got. Every school took it the same day at the same time, so there wasn't any cheating.

I was going to do scrambler, but there were too many other people that really know how to do it right. 😛 I took my niche in the team- some events sophomores can do, others they can't, it's about picking them right and working your ass off really. 😛 I took two earth science events (can't do chem cuz I am doing it this year and physics is next year) and bottle rocket and that is how I made it. Next year I will do a chem event as well as these three (it would be stupid to throw these three events away).
 
Rocks and minerals
Dynamic Planet (weather/forecasting)
Bottle Rocket

I was advised to take these events by the &quot;head coach&quot; because she really wanted me on the team and if I did other events it would be hard as hell to make the team because of the juniors/seniors doing them that were on the team last year! :Q
 
Do you try out for each individual event?

BTW Bottle Rocket is a lot of fun. I did it in middle school, and although I did much better in other events, I had the most fun with bottle rockets.
 
Uh huh, there is a test (be it written or testing the object) for each event. Really, they want someone that is strong in 3 events and coachable and good to be around and works hard. If someone is GREAT in 1 event, but average at best in 2 others, that person won't make the team because there is a limited number of spots and 1 out of 23 events doesn't warrant it when someone else could get to nearly that level and still have 2-3 other strong events.

🙂
 
Your system is so much better. We had a written Biology test, a Chemistry test, and a Physics test to determine who will make the team. Then, the events no one wants to do are given for the building tryouts to fill up the remaining few positions. Very little emphasis is placed on building ability. I think the way my school does it is very biased and not very logical. If you pass the tests, you might do well on test like events, but just because you are good at a test doesn't mean you can build a good project. I think a separate test for each event would be more fair.
 
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