Science Olympiad

On Friday we found out if we made the team or not and what team we would be one. Well I wasn't good enough to be on the Junior High team but I am on the High School team. Even though I am not on the Junior High team it will still be fun to conpete on the High School level. Plus there are diffrent events on the High School level that sound fun. Some of the events I want to do are Robot Ramble, Boomilevers, and Remote Sensing

The Boomilevers event is building a boomilever and testing it to see how much weight it can hold before it breaks. First, you have to design a boomilever. Second, you build the boomilever. Third, you have to test the boomilever. Then the fourth step you design a new boomilever based on how the boomilever failed (or how the boomilever broke from the load). To test the boomilever you basicly mount it on a testing structure then you put a rod on it and hook it to a bucket wich you fill with salt. This is similar to the Tower building event wich is on Junior High level. This is the event I would do if I was on the Junior high team.

I don't know that much about Remote sensing but what I know is that you have to find objects by using a map and electronic sensing equipmant. This sounds really fun becaus you would use things like a GPS. I know a little more about Robot ramble. Last year I did an event like this and it was called Sumo Bot. In the Sumo Bot event you would build a robot that had to be able to fit in a certain dimention. Then you would try to push the other team's robot out of the square. In Robot ramble you build a robot and then you have to move certain objects into a certain area. This one would be fun because making robots are a really though challenge.

One of the fun things a bout being on Science Olympiad is the competitions. The District competition is fun because it's the smallest competition. The District competition only takes up the morning and only half the events are at this competition. Even though you don't get any awards it is a good practice. The State Competiton is fun because it takes up the whole day. This is where you can earn medals and your team can win it all and goto the National competition. The fun thing about the National competition is that you get to travel and its like a vacation depending on where it is being held, like this year it is in Washington D.C.. It is going to be hard this year because in order for the high School team to go we have to beat the other High schools, like Layton and Davis high.

So eventhough I am not on the Junior high team it will still be fun on the High Schol team. and it's still be like I'm on the Junior high team.