Poorly Run Event Stories

[Unome]

I don't 'do' insects

I'm actually terrified of most live ones. I'm okay when they're on paper photos but in real life I'm iffy around most of them.

You tend to be iffy around insects when you almost accidentally swallow a butterfly whole.

...there's so much irony in that statement...

[Entomology]

I'm actually terrified of most live ones. I'm okay when they're on paper photos but in real life I'm iffy around most of them.

You tend to be iffy around insects when you almost accidentally swallow a butterfly whole.

...there's so much irony in that statement...

Have you ever almost swallowed a butterfly? The texture of their wings is disgusting, and frankly, I think you would be scared of them if you've ever had one flapping around in your mouth.

[Unome]

I'm actually terrified of most live ones. I'm okay when they're on paper photos but in real life I'm iffy around most of them.

You tend to be iffy around insects when you almost accidentally swallow a butterfly whole.

...there's so much irony in that statement...

Have you ever almost swallowed a butterfly? The texture of their wings is disgusting, and frankly, I think you would be scared of them if you've ever had one flapping around in your mouth.

What does that have to do with the irony?

[Entomology]

...there's so much irony in that statement...

Have you ever almost swallowed a butterfly? The texture of their wings is disgusting, and frankly, I think you would be scared of them if you've ever had one flapping around in your mouth.

What does that have to do with the irony?

By "irony" I assume you're referring to the fact that my username is "Entomology", and yet I'm scared of select insects. Thus, I explained why.

It really is ironic thoough.

[[NerdyTotoro]]

I'm actually terrified of most live ones. I'm okay when they're on paper photos but in real life I'm iffy around most of them.

You tend to be iffy around insects when you almost accidentally swallow a butterfly whole.

...there's so much irony in that statement...

Have you ever almost swallowed a butterfly? The texture of their wings is disgusting, and frankly, I think you would be scared of them if you've ever had one flapping around in your mouth.

But you still proceeded to swallow it? Entoes actually does have butterflies in her stomach then...

[Entomology]

...there's so much irony in that statement...

Have you ever almost swallowed a butterfly? The texture of their wings is disgusting, and frankly, I think you would be scared of them if you've ever had one flapping around in your mouth.

But you still proceeded to swallow it? Entoes actually does have butterflies in her stomach then...

Please see below.

You tend to be iffy around insects when you almost accidentally swallow a butterfly whole.

[[NerdyTotoro]]

Have you ever almost swallowed a butterfly? The texture of their wings is disgusting, and frankly, I think you would be scared of them if you've ever had one flapping around in your mouth.

But you still proceeded to swallow it? Entoes actually does have butterflies in her stomach then...

Please see below.

You tend to be iffy around insects when you almost accidentally swallow a butterfly whole.

ah

How was the butterfly after you spit it out?

[Entomology]

But you still proceeded to swallow it? Entoes actually does have butterflies in her stomach then...

Please see below.

You tend to be iffy around insects when you almost accidentally swallow a butterfly whole.

ah

How was the butterfly after you spit it out?

I actually don't know because I left that place as fast as I could, but there was no chomping involved so I hope it's okay. I think it's safe to say that it was traumatic for both of us.

[Skink]

Though, I'm confused (never did BPL), so was the lab question figuring out whether it was alive? Was this just one question of a multitude/didn't really matter BPL is a really good event if it's ran properly, which...it usually isn't, making it, otherwise, a bad event. The typical event consisted of stations with the following structure:
Station 1: name the pictured laboratory equipment
Station 2: use the microscope to look at this slide
Station 3: use the microscope to look at that slide
Station 4: use the microscope to look at another slide
Station 5: identify the parts of a cell
Station 6: do this list of math prob-err, unit conversions
etc.
...
You see how this makes for a riveting event. I made an attempt at running it how (I've always suspected) it was intended, which is an introductory high school level biology laboratory skill drill with some slant towards making it fun for middle school while making them think about or do things they may never have considered or done before. All of the activities should be laboratory-oriented, even if they're not actually doing anything (see those lists of 'process skills'). If you're more than passively interested, I could send it to you.

On the other hand I've probably made quite a few people...upset about my difficulty...but I've gotten a whole lot better at that, I swear! Really, the amount of times I hear people on this site complain about things being too easy, yet competitions tell me I should probabbblyyyyy take it easier. Finding medium is hard :/. Whether Daniel Weight is competing or otherwise, my rule of thumb is to try and calibrate the test such that a score of 70% gets first place (for a typically scored deal). That leaves everyone feeling the need to study but the winners, nevertheless, accomplished. I've gotten good at this and have really only had occasional deviation, with first being around eighty or sixty percent. And, even that isn't horrible. Assuming you're talking Astro, that's an extremely difficult event, so folks are going to leave it stung. That's a given and shouldn't be something you carry with you. Put another way, there's not a lot of 'medium' to be had. There will surely be a few really strong teams, and it's downhill from there. If you ask 70% or more of the teams, then, they'd say that the test was too hard, even, perhaps, at the State level. Was it really? Hardly. As a quick example, I had a team in tears at State this past season (and had to do some damage control), and neither of my teams performed where I wanted them to be on my own test. Nevertheless, it wasn't too hard because I knew that A)it was on target with the rules and B)the top-scoring team got somewhere around 70%. Not everybody agrees with me, but this is what I've found works.

[Castle_Dynamo]

Regionals Bottle Rocket was run under trees. Smart.