User:John Richardsim

Hello, my name is John Richardsim. I graduated from Grand Haven High School in 2018. From 6th to 9th grade, I participated in Division B for Lakeshore Middle School.

Division B

6th Grade (2012)

I only participated in two events in 6th grade; Towers and Reach for the Stars. I didn't make the traveling team, making my Science Olympiad season only three months long (January-March).

7th Grade (2013)

This year, I ramped things up a bit, participating in six events. I did end up making the traveling team, but I was an alternate and did not compete.

8th Grade (2014)

This year I kicked it up a notch again, participating in 10 events. I did compete this year, in 4 events; Meteorology, Water Quality, Rocks and Minerals, and Metric Mastery.

Event	Regional	State	Nationals
Water Quality	1st	9th	8th
Rocks and Minerals	3rd	2nd	16th
Meteorology	1st	1st	23rd
Metric Mastery	4th	2nd	35th

FantaSO 2014 Results:

Division B: 5th

Overall: 11th

9th Grade (2015)

This season I practiced for 10 events, all of which were study events (well, I guess Bio-Process Lab is technically a lab event...and also the build portion of Simple Machines...). Throughout Regionals, States, and Nationals, I ended up competing in a total of 8 different events.

Event	Regional	State	Nationals
Anatomy & Physiology	-	-	32nd
Bio-Process Lab	1st	16th	20th
Crave the Wave	3rd	7th	27th
Disease Detectives	1st	7th	11th
Dynamic Planet	1st	-	-
Meteorology	-	1st	14th
Simple Machines	3rd	9th	19th
Solar System	-	1st	27th

Nationals Prediction Contest 2015:

Division B:

Event Predictions: 2nd

Top Ten Predictions: 1st

Overall: 1st

Division C:

Event Predictions: 17th

Top Ten Predictions: T-7th

Overall: 8th

Blue and Gold Results

Blue and Gold is Grand Haven's intramural competition. In Division B, competitors compete individually, ribbons are awarded to the top 3 competitors in each grade level in each event, along with a medal for the overall champion of each event. Unless otherwise noted, each of the placements are within the respective grade level.

Blue and Gold Results

Event	6th Grade	7th Grade	8th Grade	9th Grade
Anatomy & Physiology	-	-	-	2nd
Bio-Process Lab	-	-	-	1st1
Boomilever	-	-	2nd	-
Crave the Wave	-	-	-	1st1
Crime Busters	-	-	Didn't Place	-
Disease Detectives	-	-	3rd	1st1
Dynamic Planet	-	-	-	2nd
Forestry	-	Didn't Place	-	-
Fossils	-	-	-	2nd
Green Generation	-	-	-	1st1
Heredity	-	-	1st	-
Meteorology	-	2nd	2nd	2nd
Metric Mastery	-	1st	1st	-
Reach for the Stars	1st	2nd	-	-
Rocks and Minerals	-	1st	2nd	-
Simple Machines	-	-	-	1st1
Solar System	-	-	2nd	3rd
Towers	2nd	-	-	-
Water Quality	-	1st	1st1	-

1: Achieved 1st place in both grade level and overall.

Division C

10th Grade (2016)

Really cut back on events this year, doing only 5 (was originally planning on doing 6, but decided last minute not to do Cell Biology).

Event	Regional	State
Anatomy & Physiology	2nd	4th
Disease Detectives	-	2nd
Invasive Species	4th	1st

Pennsylvania States Prediction Contest 2016:

Division B: 3rd

Division C: 6th

Overall: 1st

Nationals Prediction Contest 2016:

Division B - Event Placements: 1st

Division B - Top Ten: 2nd

Division C - Event Placements: 9th

Division C - Top Ten: T-17th

11th Grade (2017)

This year I practiced for Invasive Species, Rocks and Minerals, Disease Detectives, Optics, Microbe Mission, and Anatomy and Physiology.

Event	West Ottawa	Regionals	State
Anatomy & Physiology	-	3rd	4th
Disease Detectives	1st	-	7th
Invasive Species	1st	1st	17th
Microbe Mission	1st	1st	4th
Optics	-	-	1st
Pentathlon	-	6th	-
Rocks and Minerals	3rd	1st	1st

Georgia States Prediction Contest 2017:

Division B: 2nd

Division C: 12th

Pennsylvania States Prediction Contest 2017:

Division B: 11th

Division C: >15th

Overall: 12th

Nationals Prediction Contest 2017:

Division B - Event Placements: 6th

Division B - Top Ten: 2nd

Division C - Event Placements: 6th

Division C - Top Ten: 23rd

12th Grade (2018)

This year I am practicing for Anatomy and Physiology, Disease Detectives, Fermi Questions, Microbe Mission, Optics, Remote Sensing, Rocks and Minerals, and Thermodynamics.

Event	Solon	Regionals	States	Nationals
Anatomy & Physiology	7th	-	-	-
Fermi Questions	6th	1st	5th	9th
Microbe Mission	5th	1st	2nd	4th
Optics	5th	1st	9th	12th
Remote Sensing	-	2nd	7th	2nd
Thermodynamics	16th	1st	2nd	22nd

Blue and Gold Results

Second number denotes number of people in the event.

Blue and Gold Results

Event	10th Grade	11th Grade	12th Grade
Anatomy & Physiology	1st/4	1st/6	2nd/8
Disease Detectives	3rd/5	2nd/5	4th/6
Dynamic Planet	4th/8	-	-
Fermi Questions	-	-	1st/9
Green Generation	3rd/7	-	-
Invasive Species	1st/10	1st/5	-
Microbe Mission	-	1st/8	1st/11
Optics	-	2nd/8	2nd/6
Remote Sensing	-	-	3rd/5
Rocks and Minerals	-	2nd/5	2nd/7
Thermodynamics	-	-	1st/5

Other Interests

Television/Movies

Some of my favorite TV shows/channels include:

• Futurama
• Jeopardy
• Malcolm in the Middle
• The Weather Channel
• Mysteries at the Museum
• The Twilight Zone (1959)

In addition, my favorite movies are Norbit and Click.

Video Games

• The Sims 1, 2, and 3
• DDR
• SimCity (2013) and SimCity 4
• The Sims Bustin' Out (GBA), The Urbz: Sims in the City (GBA), The Sims 2 (GBA)
• Modern Warfare 2
• Need for Speed Hot Pursuit (2010), Hot Pursuit 2, and Carbon
• Monday Night Combat

If you would like to play one of these games with me sometime, send me a private message on the forums or hunt me down on IRC.

Music

My favorite artists are dj TAKA, TAG, Sota Fujimori, kors k, Ryu☆, Dirty Androids, Jonas Steur, Deja Vu feat. Tasmin, and Ferry Corsten.

My Test Gallery

• Metric Unit Conversion practice test
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• 2015 SSSS Meteorology practice test
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• 2016 SSSS Bio-Process Lab practice test
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• 2017 SSSS Fast Facts
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  • Test Notes
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Editing Guide

See User:John Richardsim/Editing Guide.

Invasives Gallery

See User:John Richardsim/Invasives Gallery.