It was time for the Science Olympia Competition in Wilkes- Barre!!
I couldn't believe that already 8 weeks had past and the competition day was there.. This morning a bus drove us down to the Penn State campus in Wilkes- Barre where more than 40 schools from north east Pennsylvania came together to compete against each other in Science.
Mostly everything that could go wrong went wrong in the morning (my luck).. Our bus was late, the paper for forensics wasn't done and I was so nervous that Linds and Matt had to calm me down.. (Jap, we all know that is 100% me!!)
So after we finally arrived at the campus I went with Nikko and Matt to their 'Build a tower' competition .. I was so happy and proud that their tower hold all the sand and didn't even crack a bit!! So the morning turned in the more positive direction.. (I thought at least that way)
Lindsey, Matt and my competition in 'Experimental Design' started at 10.15a.m. and we thought that we had everything that we needed.. We didn't really practice before, but we felt ready.. Of course here comes the big BUT : We had no idea that we needed a timer, for more improtant than a timer a ruler.. We had one really good pencil and one that was almost gone.. So we went in the competition with a ruler.. Great!!
Our material that we had to build an experiment with were: a superball, play- dough, and rubber bands.
For the three sentences, where he had to chose only one from we needed a ruler or a timer.. The only good thing was I had my Ipod with me ..
We chose the one sentence where we had to compare the bouncing of the balls.. Lindsey was our own writing machine and Matt and I were the experiment tester.
We borrowed a ruler form an other group for 30 sec. and made our own ruler with tape. Our measurements were 2.5 cm apart from each other.. The rest I did with the good Germany metric eye, haha
After we finished in the 60 min. that were given we were happy..
My next competiton was at 2 p.m. in Forensics.. Of course our teacher had such a strong accent that I couldn't understand him.. Even Cassidy couldn't understand everything.. We had a senario where we had to identify:
7 white powders ( they look all the same), 3 plastics, blood type, fiber, hair, ink pens (chromatography) and fingerprints
all these things in 60 minutes..
So after I was the totally calm one in the group we started with the things that we knew how to do.. We did everything but than we had to do the white powders and plastics.. we had to guess on them because we really didn't have enough time left.. When the teacher said that we only had 5minutes left we had to write a complete conclusion.. so Cassidy cleaned up and I wrote..
After we where done we knew that we wouldn't place at all..
We had the placements in the gym.. The first thing where we competed was 'Experimental Design'.. They said the 4th place, than the 3rd and after that I had no hope left BUT than they called the 2nd place 'Mid Valley' we couldn't believe it.. WE PLACED WITHOUT A RULER!!!!
So at the end we had forensics left.. Cassidy and I had zero hope for that one.. 4th place= nothing..
Hahahahaha, But than 3rd Place 'Mid- Valley' !!
Oh, yes we placed again, whohoo
I was soooo happy!!
