Science Olympiad Stories

[pihi]

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[fozendog]

At one of our invitational competitions we were doing experimental design and everything was going great until IT happened. One of my partners looks at me straight in the face and says "I don't feel good..." She runs to the trash can and proceeds to puke her guts out. Meanwhile neither of the proctors notice and she is sitting on the floor with her head in the trashcan. Me and my other partner had to do half of the write up still and we thought we were screwed after leaving the event and going to the next one. The best part about it? We ended up getting first somehow and beating my partner's brothers group. That was a pretty good day...

[cloudpii]

At regionals last year, my partner and I knew NOTHING about meteorology. I repeat, NOTHING. We were taking our test and we flipped the page and there's a picture of Lake Michigan. My partner said really loudly, "Look, it's Florida!" Everybody stared at us like we were insane.

Later, on the same test, she was trying to convince me that the most likely place for hurricanes was Oklahoma City.

[pihi]

Now that I think about it...Lake Michigan DOES look some what like Florida...

[SciBomb97]

Now that I think about it...Lake Michigan DOES look some what like Florida...

Except it juts out more towards the left.

[silverheart7]

At our hotel's restaurant and on the bus ride home from states, my friends decided to fill out a book of mad libs. Being one girl in a sea of guy friends, I had to go along with it. All I can say is that 12, 13, and 14 year old boys have VERY dirty minds and VERY rich vocabularies... I am scared for life.

EDIT: That is NOT a generalization of boys in general. That is just my experiance with my guy friends and other guys my age...

[foreverphysics]

At our hotel's restaurant and on the bus ride home from states, my friends decided to fill out a book of mad libs. Being one girl in a sea of guy friends, I had to go along with it. All I can say is that 12, 13, and 14 year old boys have VERY dirty minds and VERY rich vocabularies... I am scared for life.

EDIT: That is NOT a generalization of boys in general. That is just my experiance with my guy friends and other guys my age...

I have a few things to say to that:
ITALIAN SAUSAGE
Gummy bears
"Life is a highway..."
Unicorn...it's purple...and it's wide...very wide...in fact wider than it is tall...
ITALIAN SAUSAGE

I'll shut up now.

[SciBomb97]

At our hotel's restaurant and on the bus ride home from states, my friends decided to fill out a book of mad libs. Being one girl in a sea of guy friends, I had to go along with it. All I can say is that 12, 13, and 14 year old boys have VERY dirty minds and VERY rich vocabularies... I am scared for life.

EDIT: That is NOT a generalization of boys in general. That is just my experiance with my guy friends and other guys my age...

I have a few things to say to that:
ITALIAN SAUSAGE
Gummy bears
"Life is a highway..."
Unicorn...it's purple...and it's wide...very wide...in fact wider than it is tall...
ITALIAN SAUSAGE

I'll shut up now.

Seriously? The Italian sausage thing? It is not for many ears to hear.

[foreverphysics]

Yes. I still can't properly eat a sausage without partially choking. I blame you.

[illusionofconfusion]

I have a few things to say to that:
ITALIAN SAUSAGE
Gummy bears
"Life is a highway..."
Unicorn...it's purple...and it's wide...very wide...in fact wider than it is tall...
ITALIAN SAUSAGE

I'll shut up now.

Good times, good times. >8)

[siciscio]

During a regular Scio practice, Silverheart7 and I were helping our coach (rocks and minerals/fossils crazed person) setting up a Rocks and Minerals event (labeling rocks and minerals based on a answer key). We ended up doing a station about coal(Peat, lignite, anthracite coal, and bitutmous coal on a plate labeled station 6) and we couldn't identify the difference between bitutmous and anthracite coal. So I tried to pick up a piece of coal, somehow knocking the plate over. Silver and I somehow managed to catch the plate, but the coal I was holding had dropped and had split to pieces. Behind us we could hear our coach exclaiming "You dropped my bitutmous coal!"
The bitutmous coal had broken into several pieces, but for some odd reason it looked exactly the same as it was before I had dropped it (at least to me it did ) Well Silver and I were happy that we were finally able to identify the bitutmous coal even though it cost our coach quite a chunk of it...

[silverheart7]

That was hysterical! Oh, the things that happen in scio. And yeah, besides being smaller, it DID look exactly the same!!!!!!!!

[Gearbox]

Anyone who was at the West Liberty Salem Invitational yesterday has the exact same story. =) The fire alarm went off in the middle of 1st period (I was in the middle of a really hard DD test - got 3rd =) and everyone's looking at each other like, "What the heck?!!!" We all decide to run outside in the freezing,
(literally, it was snowing) weather, and stay out there for 10 minutes. There were some bets going around about the food science people, but from what I heard, someone was just cooking something, and smoke set off the fire alarms. Added 10 minutes to make up for lost time, though.

Yes i remember that vividly, i was in the middle of Compute this and my partner was only wearing a t-shirt, i heard someone say that it was a tornado drill but, then i thought why would we be running outside if there was a tornado. Turns out that someone left the heat plate on, cooking something in one of the rooms...

[gneissisnice]

At regionals, we were calculating the score while they were listing off the places. Our school hasn't gone to states in so long but we felt as if we had a chance this year. The announcer only had one more event to announce and we were winning by one point. He announced that we got fourth and the other team got second. Therefore, we couldn't go to states because we were losing by one point. We all groaned and watched as the other team celebrated.
The announcer said, "This year's competition was close but Pioneer High School (Our school) wins by 1 point!"
We all stared at each other and thought that he had made a mistake. We looked over at the other school and they seemed to be in the same shock as we were in.
We recalculated the score and found out that both of our teams had forgotten to count an event that we both didn't place in and that gave us the win. That was legit one of the happiest moments of my life.

Something sorta similar happened when I was in 12th grade.

We hadn't gone to Nationals in a few years, after placing 3rd at States for around 3 years in a row (NY takes the top 2 teams). The top two that always went to Nationals were FM and Spackenkill. That year, we were having a lot of drama, particularly with tech events and people that the coach wanted to swap out for other students on the team, and it was just a nightmare. People were coming back from their events feeling like they bombed them, and I was the only person trying to be optimistic, but even I was feeling scared about everything. We get to the award ceremony feeling pretty down, though our spirits rose as we heard our team get called for some medals. We were at least hoping for top 5 but weren't even expecting that, that's how pessimistic we were. So they called 10th, 9th, 8th, 7th, 6th, 5th, and 4th. Now we're getting excited, since they haven't called us yet. We think "hey, maybe we got third again, that's not so bad, or maybe we even got 2nd!", and so for 3rd, we were hoping for either Spackenkill or us. So we were shocked when they called "Columbia!" for 3rd place, since that was a team we hadn't even heard of. My first thought was "oh man, we didn't even make top 10! I was a captain this year, and this will go down in history as the worst we've ever done, I feel terrible". So when they called "2nd place, Ward Melville High School!", we all stared at each other for a few seconds, and then absolutely freaked out. It turned out that Spackenkill had actually placed 14th, and we beat Columbia by a mere 14 points or so. It was one of the greatest moments in my life (that we made Nationals, not that Spackenkill didn't get top 10).

[Cedavis6]

I made notes for my Optics partner over spring break. I wanted to surprise him.
At regionals, we went out and played tag... of course I ruined it because I can't run fast.
We saw this TERRIBLE movie at invotationals about the Pinewood Derby...
Talking with Cleverbot at states. It said to my friend, who is a guy, "If you were a guy, I'd marry you" and "How's your husband?"
While watching that horrid movie, my friend and I started performing "surgery" on a teamate.
I shouted "I LOST THE GAME!" at Mission Possible and to some random people walking down the street at states.
Ah, good times...