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Heron TSG

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Science Olympiad
« on: March 06, 2010, 09:16:23 pm »
I've been hearing about it a lot on these forums as of late, and I just got back from the Eastern Washington competition. We failed pretty hard at most of the build-aheads, but our Egg-o-naut and waterclock were awesome.

I crammed for the past two days for Ornithology, and my team was the only one to answer all the questions. Anyone else have a good time?
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Re: Science Olympiad
« Reply #1 on: March 06, 2010, 09:18:39 pm »
What is this scientific event you speak of?
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Re: Science Olympiad
« Reply #2 on: March 06, 2010, 09:20:36 pm »
Ecology, and Disease Detectives.

My partner and I got silver IN BOTH by guessing on over half.
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Re: Science Olympiad
« Reply #3 on: March 06, 2010, 09:37:39 pm »
Illinois Olmpiadian here! Got 4th in Trajectory, only losing by two points, because I broke the machine on the way there. It stilled out-fired 20 other schools in the area. Got the gold in Write It Do It because my partner kicked ass at writing.
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Re: Science Olympiad
« Reply #4 on: March 06, 2010, 10:19:10 pm »
Quote from: Realmfighter on March 06, 2010, 09:18:39 pm
What is this scientific event you speak of?
An organization of scientific folks set up a competition, and ask middle and high school teams to follow their rules to win medals.

The East Washington results aren't up yet, but I'm pretty sure I medaled in Technical Problem Solving and Ornithology.

Here's an interesting anecdote from a teammate - "On our second Egg-o-Naut launch, the parachute failed to deploy, allowing the nosecone of the rocket to plow four inches into the ground at over a hundred miles per hour, lawn-dart style". The egg survived.
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Re: Science Olympiad
« Reply #5 on: March 06, 2010, 11:50:27 pm »
lol, yeah, was part of the VA middle school team a year or two ago, and we nearly won states...
Pentathalon was exceptionally fun because we had no friggin idea what we were supposed to know or do.
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