Science Olympiad Quotes

[Bogoradwee]

During ProMod:
Me: "What's the difference between an adenovirus and a retrovirus?"
Partner: "They're spelled differently?"
Me: "..."

During ProMod for me (at states, none of us had done it. half our team was in boston for a band trip)
Me: Want to even attempt to figure out what this protein is supposed to look like?
Partner: Nah let's just make something cool looking.
Me: I wanna give this a shot first.
*10 minutes later*
Me: What did you have in mind?
*I give the tuber to my partner*
*Time lapses*
Partner: It's a dragon!

[Bogoradwee]

Ok, a couple WIDI ones. I was the writer and sometimes I would forget the names of certain nouns...

"There are two chocolate covered snacks that roll up and have creme filling" I was looking for swiss rolls /facepalm
Later, while I was in sounds, the do-er, who was taking over for my brother while he was in boston, wrote on a piece of paper and held it up on the window. It said "SWISS ROLLS!!!!" It's a good thing that room was pretty much soundproof, because if not, people may have popped their heads out of doors if they heard my yell of frustration. Judges weren't there yet, btw.
I also referred to pipe cleaners and "long, fuzzy things" throughout an entire build that had a TON of pipe cleaners. My brother got a kick out of that while building it.

[northernjacana]

SoCal states

(In Ornithology)
Our proctors and supervisors were volunteers from Caltech:
Proctor 1 : Welcome to...er....
Proctor 2 : Ornithology.
Proctor 1 : Oh. Right.

Me: (looks up bird in book) That's probably a Cactus Wren because of the marking above its eye.
Partner: I agree, but you didn't get that from the cactus it was perched on?

(After Crime Busters)
"Of course the baker killed that guy. It's always the baker!"
teammate: "I'm in a frictionless environment!" *starts gliding away*

(In Can't Judge a Powder)
Me: What's molarity?
Partner: I don't know.
Me: Oh. Well, since we've already lost points for having a thermometer, would you like to guess a random number?
Partner: Okay. 2?

Team chant at awards ceremony: "We won't win! We won't win!"... We got third.

[sciolygrl258]

Teammate to coach who wanted us to be quiet in the bus: "No, I don't wanna!" (someone obviously had too much caffeine...)
Partner in Ornithology: "Its fat and on a cactus, it's a cactus wren"
"NASA fails at puzzles"

[sr243]

I look at a bunch of the team walk over to Storm the Castle. We don't go for another 25 minutes. Someone asked me "Where are they going?" I replied, "They can't be going to Storm the Castle, they don't even have goggles." When we followed them there, they started testing.
We missed 3rd by 20 points out of 45 teams. Needless to say, pretty mad.

[Sunshine Ninja]

We brought our mascot Luna the wolf 2 state..... nc state, where the state comp. Is held mascot is also a wolf. Their wolf was a girl in a cheer leader outfit and a wolf head.... she came over to the boy in the Luna custom 4 pics. she hugged him and blew him kiss's.... He put up with it but as he was taking off the costume with our coach at the end of the parade....

boy: i just got hugged by a high school girl...
coach: actually she was probably a collage girl since this is a collage
boy: even worse!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LOL

[paleonaps]

Why was he complaining?

[winneratlife]

Why was he complaining?

Because girls aren't as fun when they throw themselves at you...

[Kokonilly]

Why was he complaining?

Because girls aren't as fun when they throw themselves at you...

[paleonaps]

I really hope you were kidding, winner.