Can't Judge a Powder B

[Cheesy Pie]

My partner: you don't have to outrun the bear; just the other people.

[SammySmamy]

nice job! ahhhh my team got 1st at natioanls
I was one of the jv kids they mentored so imma very proud of them yay!

[Cheesy Pie]

how did they practice?

[NYLHVSSO]

My school has some weird things in CJP . . .
I was on the "B" Team at Regionals and got 1st in CJP with my partner.
Then at states, the state team (which I was not on) got 1st in CJP also (our only medal at states).

Our way of practicing was just running the tests and questions over and over and we kept correcting the ones we got wrong. I think it was pretty good since we got 1st in states and regionals. One time the CJP teams stayed until 8:00 PM at school to practice (and I was one of them).

I wonder if the CJP event graders even check the observation sheet when they see the part that says, "Which observation numbers support this question?" I accidentally wrote exothermic on the observation sheet instead of endothermic, and then on the question sheet I wrote endothermic and wrote the # for the observation which said exothermic. Strange.

[Cheesy Pie]

We did some practice testing. We had hcl naoh and iodine. Plus some more.

[anatomy]

My school has some weird things in CJP . . .
I was on the "B" Team at Regionals and got 1st in CJP with my partner.
Then at states, the state team (which I was not on) got 1st in CJP also (our only medal at states).

Our way of practicing was just running the tests and questions over and over and we kept correcting the ones we got wrong. I think it was pretty good since we got 1st in states and regionals. One time the CJP teams stayed until 8:00 PM at school to practice (and I was one of them).

I wonder if the CJP event graders even check the observation sheet when they see the part that says, "Which observation numbers support this question?" I accidentally wrote exothermic on the observation sheet instead of endothermic, and then on the question sheet I wrote endothermic and wrote the # for the observation which said exothermic. Strange.

they do check it, but it's is strange that they didn't notice your mistake, it might be that they missed it or they weren't able to understand your handwriting.

[Cheesy Pie]

How did you state its endothermic or exothermic without it being an inference?

[anatomy]

oh wait thats right
NYHSLVSSO
you can't just write its endothermic or exothermic on the observations because that is not an observation
you have to write the temperatures

[NYLHVSSO]

Yes, what I wrote as an observation was:

When the powder was placed in the water and stirred, the temperature went from 22 degrees C to 24 degrees C, inferring it is endothermic.

That was the mistake. (Anyway, that's the way you're supposed to write a 5-pt observation because I did some looking around on the Soinc.org website.)
Then, the question said, "Did the powder dissolve into the water endothermically or exothermically? I wrote:

Exothermically. Observations: #X (which is above)

The coach said that if we make on small mistake then we might get bumped down to sixth place or something.

[anatomy]

well you wrote the temperatures and that is all that matters
and if the answer was correct then you have the temperatures to prove it.