User:Sciduck

I've been participating in Science Olympiad for two years, and somehow became a captain. I remember my college-bound friends encouraging eighth grade me to join Science Olympiad because it was "literally life," "Asian-initiation," and "both the best and most painful bus rides you can experience in high school." I finally joined Science Olympiad during freshman orientation, when someone I didn't like yelled at me to join Science Bowl.

Freshman Year
aka "What am I doing?"

I ended up "studying" for a lot of events throughout the year because a captain told me to sign up for a lot, because people would only get picked for three or four. I didn't realize this was for tournament event placing, and I just went ahead and attended event meetings on whatever seemed remotely interesting.

Events

 * Astronomy (I never actually competed, I just sometimes showed up to practice)
 * Disease Detectives
 * Forensics
 * Green Generation
 * Mission Possible
 * Technical Problem Solving (The only time I had to do this, it got canceled.)
 * Write It Do It

Medals

 * 4th - Mission Possible (River Falls)
 * 2nd - Forensics (Regionals)
 * 2nd - Green Generation (Regionals)

Sophomore Year
aka "Pull Yourself Together"

I'm 90% sure I got thrown on our stacked team because I was that one kid who did the obscure events nobody else wanted to. I wasn't good, I just fit. This worked out for invitationals, but Regionals and State was a mess. I only participated in one event at Regionals because some of my events were not held, and the other three were in the same block. State was when I got 2 weeks to prepare for an event I had only competed in once and never looked at again (Forensics), and an event I had no experience in (Cell Biology). I ended up placing 8th and 5th, respectively.

Events

 * Astronomy (for real this time!)
 * Cell Biology
 * Forensics
 * Game On
 * Green Generation (Only for the 'Iolani Scrimmage)
 * It's About Time (I found out I was doing this the day before the competition. My partner's clock didn't work so we poked a hole in a water bottle and used that. We also didn't notice the back side of the last page.)
 * Microbe Mission (Trial event that I loved)
 * Wind Power

Medals
Note: This was the first time Boyceville started giving out medals for places 1 through 6.
 * 4th - Microbe Mission (Boyceville)
 * 6th - Game On (Boyceville)
 * 2nd - Astronomy (River Falls)
 * 3rd - Microbe Mission (River Falls)
 * 4th - Game On (River Falls)
 * 1st - Astronomy (Regionals)
 * 1st - Astronomy (State)

Junior Year
{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" ! Event !! Boyceville !! River Falls !! Regionals !! State
 * Astronomy
 * 5th
 * Codebusters
 * 5th*
 * Forensics
 * bgcolor="gold"|1st
 * Microbe Mission
 * bgcolor="silver"|2nd
 * Renewable Energy
 * 10th
 * Forensics
 * bgcolor="gold"|1st
 * Microbe Mission
 * bgcolor="silver"|2nd
 * Renewable Energy
 * 10th
 * Microbe Mission
 * bgcolor="silver"|2nd
 * Renewable Energy
 * 10th
 * bgcolor="silver"|2nd
 * Renewable Energy
 * 10th
 * Renewable Energy
 * 10th
 * Renewable Energy
 * 10th

* denotes fill in