User:HugoTroop

The 2018-2019 Season is HugoTroop's 4th total year participating in Science Olympiad. He first competed for Leawood Middle School (Kansas, Division B) in 2014-2015, where the team made it to Nationals. He was again part of the team in the 2015-2016 Season, but unfortunately did not advance beyond the State competition. He temporarily quit, missing the 2016-2017 Season, due to various complications. In 2017-2018, he returned, this time a part of Blue Valley North High School (Kansas, Division C). In both 2018 and 2019, his team made it to Nationals at Colorado State University and Cornell University respectively, earning a medal in Dynamic Planet the second time. In the coming 2019-2020 season, he will be a captain of the BVN Science Olympiad team.

Dynamic Planet (Glaciers) is definitely his all-time favorite event, and not just because he medaled at Nationals. He is very sad to see it go next year after all the love and time he devoted to it.

While he was in middle school, he did a very bad job of record keeping when it came to awards. As such, there are various gaps in information and medal & ribbon counts are slightly deflated from actual.

Quick Bio
Outside of Science Olympiad, HugoTroop has a number of hobbies. He enjoys playing violin, even though it has come into conflict with SciOly events. He also has been and currently is engaged in a number of sports. He particularly likes snow sports (skiing & snowboarding) and long-distance running. While not particularly good, he enjoys drawing in his free time. Above all (perhaps even above SciOly), he loves WWII history.

Another 'hobby' of his is making spreadsheets. For no apparent reason, he really, really likes making spreadsheets and compiling data, and is often very impatient about getting raw scores back from invitationals so he can make a new spreadsheet with the data.

Unlabeled Awards
There are a number of medals and ribbons that do not have enough (or any) information written on them to the point that they cannot be properly attributed to an event, competition, year, or rank:

-5th Place, Wind Power, 7th Grade, Competition Unknown

-4th Place, Scrambler, 7th Grade, Competition Unknown

-3rd Place, Crave the Wave, 6th Grade, Competition Unknown

-5th Place, Event Unknown, Grade Unknown, Competition Unknown

-1st Place, Event Unknown, Grade Unknown, Kansas State (This may be the team 1st place medal)

-2nd Place, Crave the Wave, Grade Unknown, Pembroke Hill 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)

History
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2014-2015 (6th Grade)
The 2014-2015 Season was the first of Science Olympiad for HugoTroop. In all honesty, he had no idea what he was doing going into the Pembroke Hill Invitational in December 2014. He was very clueless and make a number of rookie mistakes. By late-season, he had redeemed himself to join the Regionals team. That year, his team went on to the National tournament at the University of Nebraska. At Nationals, for the Parade of States, he dressed up as a tornado.

2015-2016 (7th Grade)
For 2015-2016, he came back more ready than ever. His ties with the coach and team's management had grown closer. As such, 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 a few events which he never competed in. Nonetheless, he found one of his favorite events: Dynamic Planet. He also picked up Elastic Launched Glider, which was simultaneously the most enjoyable and most heartbreaking event that he has competed in. He was also assigned to Wind Power, and briefly to Road Scholar. Unfortunately, the team did not make it beyond the State competition.

2016-2017 (8th Grade)
HugoTroop did not participate in Science Olympiad in 8th grade. There is no solid justification as for the reason, but it was beyond simply "being bored" or "not liking it anymore", as he did rejoin later.

2017-2018 (9th Grade)
In 2017-2018, he rejoined Science Olympiad. Whatever had made him quit the previous year had gone away. The early season was quite rough for him. He was often competing against older students in events which simply taking AP classes in school was hugely advantageous. His struggles are easily outlined by the number of times his own team members outranked him. However, by the end of the season, he made the Regionals team, and they progressed on to Nationals.

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

2018-2019 (10th Grade)
He again joined SciOly for the 2018-2019 season. Sadly, he ended up missing an invitational and the Regional competition over conflicts with KMEA events. Less than a week before State, he fell sick with something and was coughing a lot. Unfortunately, nobody else got infected and thus could not test the strength of the team's immune systems. He also inadvertently received a medal for Thermodynamics from Regionals, despite not attending. That year, at Cornell, he won his first Nationals medal, earning 6th Place in Dynamic Planet.

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

2019-2020 (11th Grade)
In the coming 2020 season, HugoTroop will be a captain of the BVN Science Olympiad team. He plans to stick with Dynamic Planet and Geologic Mapping, but also pick up Sounds of Music, Machines, and Ornithology, assuming the latter two come into rotation. He will also try his hand at Wright Stuff, but with zero expectations. He is absolutely livid that the topic for Dynamic Planet is rotating to Oceanography, and is currently threatening to leave the event. Once again, there is a vacuum to fill as the group 2 years his senior moves on for one last time. He hopes that more members from both middle schools, as well as the high school, help plug some of those unpopular events which they covered.

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