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). That year, the team made it to Nationals. He is again participating in the 2018-2019 Season.

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 plays the violin, which he very much enjoys, but has also come into conflict with SciOly events. He also has and currently is engaged in many 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 interesting '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

-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. There, he participated in Robo-Cross, Bridge Building, Meteorology, and Solar System. He was very clueless. His bridge weighed an astonishing 52 grams, and, although it held all 15 kilograms of sand, was horribly inefficient. For Robo-Cross, he attempted to hardwire a Lego NXT robot to a Surface Pro and drive it around the grid. For Solar System, he thought Arabia Terra, a feature of Mars, was on Earth (as in the Arabian Peninsula). That first was quite the experience, especially for his first competition.

By the 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, especially competing against older students, especially in events which simply taking AP classes in school was hugely advantageous. However, by the end of the season, he made the Regionals team, and they progressed on to Nationals.

2018-2019 (10th Grade)
He again joined SciOly for the 2018-2019 season. Unfortunately, he ended up missing 1 invitational and the regionals competition over conflicts with KMEA events.

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

Events Participated
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