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.

* denotes fill in 1 At invitationals, Forensics and Game On were always in the same block. Despite wanting Forensics at every tournament and Game On being one of my least favorite events, I was always put into Game On (probably because I was a known klutz and didn't know any chemistry). I was finally put into Forensics two weeks before State. I then disappointed everyone by breaking a beaker, accidentally stabbing myself with a broken stirring rod, and spending half the test trying to stop myself from bleeding. 2 Boyceville gave out medals up to 6th place this year. (Lucky for me.) 3 I found out I was doing this the day before the competition. My partner's clock didn't work so we used a water bottle as our clock. I think I spent the entire 50 min giggling. 4 This was a trial event, which meant half empty answer sheets and lots of unicorn doodles on tests. --- means did not compete or was not held

Junior Year
* denotes fill in 1 I technically wasn't even a fill in for Robot Arm. The people who were supposed to build it didn't finish by the night of the competition, so I spent like 7 hours working on it as they finished other builds. --- means did not compete or was not held