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
* denotes fill in 1At 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.) 3I 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