User:HugoTroop

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 * Dynamic Planet/Glaciers
 * Blue Valley North High School

HugoTroop is a junior and captain at Blue Valley North High School (Kansas Division C). The 2020 season is his 5th year in Science Olympiad. He began competing in 6th and 7th grade at Leawood Middle School (Kansas Division B) but quit in 8th grade. He rejoined in 2017-18 with Blue Valley North.

He has been to Nationals 3 times: University of Nebraska 2015, Colorado State University 2018, and Cornell University 2019. He earned his only Nationals medal at Cornell in Dynamic Planet/Glaciers. It is by his all-time favorite event, not because of the medal. He is very sad to see it go after all the love and time he invested.

He did a poor job of tracking of his middle school performance, creating gaps in the record and a deflated tally.

Quick Bio
Besides Science Olympiad, HugoTroop has a number of hobbies. He plays violin and enjoys classical music. He has tried and liked many sports, with skiing, snowboarding, and long-distance running at the top. He also enjoys drawing and making spreadsheets. Above all, he loves WWII history.

Random lists

Music Recs (no particular order)


 * V Kalinnikov - Symphony No. 1, G Minor
 * V Kalinnikov - Symphony No. 2, A Major
 * J Denver - Take Me Home, Country Roads
 * D McLean - American Pie
 * A Dvořák - Symphony No. 9, E Minor "From the New World"
 * twenty one pilots - Stressed Out
 * twenty one pilots - Heathens
 * D Shostakovich - Suite for Variety Orchestra, Waltz 2
 * P Tchaikovsky - Swan Lake
 * P Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 2, C Minor "Little Russian"
 * P Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker
 * P Tchaikovsky - The Year 1812 Solemn Overture
 * P Tchaikovsky - Marche Slave
 * Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody, Ballad
 * P Gorinshteyn - The Red Army is the Strongest
 * M Blanter - Katyusha
 * Pokrass brothers - March of the Soviet Tankmen
 * Y Hite, P Herman - March of the Pilots
 * German Folk Song - Westerwaldlied
 * German Military March - Panzerlied
 * O Respighi - Pines of Rome
 * O Respighi - Fountains of Rome
 * O Respighi - Roman Festivals
 * A Borodin - Polovtsian Dances
 * A Borodin - Steppes of Central Asia
 * N Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherazade
 * N Rimsky-Korsakov - Capriccio on Spanish Themes
 * G Mahler - Symphony No. 1, D Major
 * G Holst - The Planets
 * B Smetana - Má Vlast
 * Y Chengzong and C Wanghua - Yellow River Piano Concerto
 * V Shcherbachov - Symphony No. 5

Events, Favorite to least Favorite ...
 * Dynamic Planet/Glaciers
 * Elastic Launched Glider
 * Meteorology
 * Geologic Mapping
 * Thermodynamics
 * Chemistry Lab
 * Write It Do It

Languages (no particular order)


 * American English - Native Speaker
 * Standard Chinese - Second Language, semi-fluent but illiterate
 * European French - School
 * German - Mostly WWII-specific vocabulary, numbers
 * Russian - Mostly WWII-specific vocabulary, numbers
 * Japanese - Mostly WWII-specific vocabulary, numbers
 * Italian - Mostly WWII-specific vocabulary
 * Hungarian - Numbers, one or two basic words

Personally liked WWII films


 * Saving Private Ryan
 * Tora! Tora! Tora!
 * Fury
 * The Thin Red Line
 * Dunkirk
 * Unbroken
 * Downfall
 * Schindler's List
 * Das Boot
 * A Bridge Too Far
 * Darkest Hour
 * Hacksaw Ridge
 * Panfilov's 28 Men
 * Battle for Sevastopol
 * Letters from Iwo Jima
 * Flags of our Fathers
 * The Dawns Here are Quiet

Bad WWII films


 * Pearl Harbor - American propaganda
 * Enemy at the Gates - German/Western propaganda
 * Red Tails - American propaganda
 * The Boy in the Striped Pajamas - Dumb storyline
 * T-34 - Russian propaganda

Favorite Tanks Visually

1 Pz.Kpfw. Panther Ausf. G, early production

2 T-34-85 Mod. 1945

3 Heavy Tank M26

4 T-34 Mod. 1943, late production

5 Medium Tank M4A3 (76) W

Favorite Warplanes Visually

1 Lavochkin La-7

2 Petlyakov Pe-2

3 Bell P-63

4 Focke-Wulf Ta 154

Random Stats

Cousins: 3

Model Tanks built: 2

Model Aircraft built: 0.5

Phones ever owned: 2

Age: yes

Tank lists: 140+

Hours playing War Thunder: too many

Hours studying for SciOly: not enough

Hours studying WWII history/technology: yes

Additions to the Dynamic Planet Glaciers page: 71,372 bytes (3.41x original)

Calculators owned: 2

Friends: perhaps

Times glued to bridges/gliders: too many

Gliders lost (all causes): 12

Gliders remaining: 3

Gliders built later: 2

Bridges collapsed: 2

Bridges destroyed by other factors: 4

Bridges intact: 2

Fingers cut open by blades: all (not simultaneously)

Potentially severely injuring or fatal incidents involved in: too many

Non-American characteristics: Lieutenant (as Leftenant), 24-Hour Time, D/M/Y format, Composite (as Kompuhzit), sympathized with Socialism & Communism, learned other languages, comma decimal separator, calling '/' a 'stroke' instead of a 'slash', using the apostrophe as a quotation mark instead of the quotation mark

Unlabeled Awards
There are a number of medals and ribbons that lack the information to properly attribute them to an event, competition, year, or rank:


 * 1st Place, Event Unknown, Grade Unknown, Kansas State (Possibly the team 1st place medal)
 * 3rd Place, Crave the Wave, 6th Grade, Competition Unknown
 * 4th Place, Scrambler, 7th Grade, Competition Unknown (Invitational)
 * 4th Place, Bridge Building, 6th Grade, Competition Unknown
 * 4-6th Place, Bridge Building, 7th Grade, NE KS Regionals (Listed as CC)
 * 4-6th Place, Wheeled Vehicle, 6th Grade, NE KS Regionals (Listed as CC)
 * 5th Place, Event Unknown, Grade Unknown, Competition Unknown
 * 5th Place, Wind Power, 7th Grade, Competition Unknown

History
Key

2014-15 (6th Grade)
The 2014-15 Season was the first of Science Olympiad for HugoTroop. He had no idea what he was doing going into the Pembroke Hill Invitational in December. He was clueless and made an unbelievable amount of rookie mistakes. He somehow qualified for the Leawood Regionals team despite being useless. That year, the team went on to Nationals where he dressed up as a tornado for the Parade of States.

2015-16 (7th Grade)
For 2015-16, he came back readier than ever. He was placed on many events to fill the void left by the previous year's 8th graders (including SOnerd) and ended up studying for several events which he never competed in. Nonetheless, he was introduced to his true love, Dynamic Planet, although he would not realize how strongly he felt for it until 3 years later. He picked up Elastic Launched Glider, was assigned to Wind Power and briefly Road Scholar. Unfortunately, the team did not advance beyond State competition.

2016-17 (8th Grade)
HugoTroop did not participate in Science Olympiad in 8th grade. There is no justification.

2017-18 (9th Grade)
In 2017-18, he rejoined Science Olympiad but with Blue Valley North. The early season was quite rough, often competing against older, more science-experienced students in his events. His struggles are outlined by the number of times his own team members outranked him. Much like in 6th grade, he still made the Regionals team, and they progressed on to Nationals.

- * = Did not attend due to conflicts with music and orchestral stuff

2018-19 (10th Grade)
HugoTroop returned for the 2018-19 season. Sadly, he ended up missing Regionals because of KMEA events. Less than a week before State, he became very sick and was coughing a lot. Sadly, nobody else was infected and a test of the team's immune systems did not take place. That year, at Cornell, he won his first Nationals medal, earning 6th Place in Dynamic Planet. This was also the season when he developed his deep love for Dynamic Planet. Glaciers and glaciology have simply captivated him.

- * = Did not attend due to conflicts with music and orchestral stuff

2019-20 (11th Grade)
HugoTroop is a captain of the BVN Science Olympiad team for the 2019-20 season.

Through the entire summer, rather than do anything productive, he edited the wiki page for Dynamic Planet/Glaciers. It was a huge waste of time, as the topic won't return until 2023-24, his junior year in college.

Currently, he is very undecided on events.