User:49ers

=Science Olympiad Information=

I have greatly enjoyed my years in Science Olympiad, and look forward to my senior year, and hope to coach in the future.

Favorite B Division Events

 * I could sit here all day telling you every single event in my Division B rankings, but I'm not going to.

1. Reach for the Stars/Solar System

2. Road Scholar

3. Physical Science Lab

4. Meteorology

5.Science Word

6.Crave the Wave

7.Anatomy ... LAST: Pentathlon

Favorite C Division Events

 * There are many that enjoyed a lot and continue to enjoy, so bear with me. This was very painful to actually rank them, as I loved competing all of these events. I never did very well in Fermi or forensics, and so that contributed to their respective placings. It was really hard to rank the star related, physics related, identification, and Road Scholar-like events as these were always my favorite. This ranking also reflects my poential career interests somewhat.

1. Astronomy

2. Remote Sensing

3. Geologic Mapping

4. Forestry

5. Water Quality

6. Physics Lab/Wind Power

7. Optics

8. Chemistry Lab

9. Technical Problem Solving

10. Experimental Design

11. Fermi Questions

12. Forensics

13. Anatomy and Physiology

6th grade Year
Medals are top 4 at Regionals and top 5 at States.

7th Grade Year
Medals are top 4 at Regionals and top 5 at States.

8th Grade Year
Medals are top 4 at Regionals and top 5 at States.

9th Grade Year
'''Medals are top 3 (in MVCs not overall) at MVC competition and top 4 at Regionals. ''' Score for MVCs is overall.

10th Grade Year
Medals are top 3 (in MVCs not overall) at MVC competition, top 4 at Regionals, and top 5 at States. Score for MVCS is overall.

11th Grade Year
Medals are top 3 (in MVcs not overall) at MVC competition, top 4 at Regional, and top 5 at States. Score for MVCs is overall

12th Grade Year
Medals are top 3 at MVCs (I have no idea what the overall placing was this year), top 4 at Regionals, and top 5 at States.

I'm not going to post my state places for my senior year. I was much more concerned with my AP tests, and thus really didn't study at all.

=Other General Information=


 * A former student of East Stroudsburg Area School District's most successful Science Olympiad Team, J.T. Lambert Intermediate School, located in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania.

Other Academic Competitions

 * I am an active member of the East Stroudsburg High School South Science Olympiad, Scholastic Scrimmage, Chess, Envirothon, and Reading Olympics teams.

My Envirothon team has varied in its composition, but my freshman and sophomore years, Eaststroudsburg13 was a member of my team. Because of him, our team placed 3rd one year, and 2nd the next. During those years, we captured 1st place in the Soils section in 2012, and in 2011 captured 1st in Soils and the Current Issue sections. This was mostly Eaststroudsburg13's doing. My junior year, we qualified for the state level competition, knocking off Pleasant Valley High School, who had won the competition for 13 straight years before then. I did Forestry, which we managed to get a first place in, and we were runner-up in two of the other events I believe. We didn't do the best at states, but we still had a lot of fun. In my senior year, I will not be able to participate, as the County competition is the same day as the State Level Science O competition.

I made Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Science states for a project regarding optical qualities of water at changing temperatures and different solutions of water (i.e. salt and sugar water) my junior year. In my senior year I have once again qualified for states with a project testing the coefficient of static friction of a running shoe on various surfaces. Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Science, or PJAS for short, is basically a competition against a rubric where the competitor designs and performs an experiment, and then presents the results to a board of scientists. I would have competed in this earlier in high school, but it did not exist until my sophomore year, and by the time I learned about it, it was less than a month before the competition.

I have never been exceptionally good at chess, but have always enjoyed playing it. My freshman year I played mostly JV5 or JV4 (the last two boards on the competition team). This was by far my worst year, as I don't think I won a game more than 4 times. My sophomore year, I was moved up to JV1, and even played Varsity 9 once. I still didn't have a great season, but it was better than the previous year. My junior year, I consistently played the varsity 7 board position, and again improved my record. As my senior year began, I had to move up to Varsity 4/5, and had a good start (2-0) but had a dismal time when I played black 6 straight matches and only won once, drew once. Still, my senior year was by far my favorite year of competition as I enjoyed chess more while understanding it.

I joined Reading Olympics my junior year 4 days before the competition, due to a team not having enough members. I read one book, on the way to the competition, and also had read another one 3 years previously, but still managed to help our team, the Altruvian (?) Trolls, do decently. This year, I have already read 7 books, and plan to read another 4 or 5. The team's name is the "Legendary Literary Lightning!"

Other Activities
I also actively participate in the Math and Computer club, the school play (2013-Carousel, 2014-Bye Bye Birdie), Go! Club, and the Cavalier Marching Band. I am an ex-member of the Choraliers (the elite choir at East Stroudsburg High School South), mainly due to them becoming a jazz choir my senior year. I was not able to do Track & Field my junior and senior years due to timing conflict with state level competitons, and needing to get a job.